Skin Treatments and Skin Rejuvenation

A chemical peel uses a professional-grade solution to exfoliate the outer layers of the skin, which prompts renewal underneath. Your clinician chooses the strength and formulation at consultation, based on your skin type and what you want to change. It is normally done as a short series rather than a one-off.

• • Treatment time: 30 to 45 minutes
• • Recovery: 2 to 5 days of mild peeling, depending on peel strength
• • Sensation: tingling or warmth during application
• • Suits: texture, tone, dullness, congestion
• • Less suited: active eczema or rosacea, recent retinoid use, pregnancy

Risks include redness, sensitivity, post-inflammatory pigmentation and, rarely, scarring. Your clinician goes through these at consultation.

Dermal stamping is a form of microneedling that uses a handheld stamping device to create controlled micro-channels, rather than a roller dragged across the skin. Exosome and PDRN serums go on during the session while the channels are open, and the treatment finishes with LED light therapy to support recovery.

• • Treatment time: 60 to 90 minutes including LED
• • Recovery: redness for 24 to 48 hours, make-up after 12 to 24 hours
• • Sensation: numbing cream first, then pressure rather than sharp pain
• • Suits: texture, fine lines, scarring, skin laxity
• • Less suited: active acne breakouts, eczema or rosacea flares, pregnancy

Risks include redness, swelling, bruising and, rarely, infection or pigmentation changes. Your clinician goes through these at consultation.

LED light therapy uses calibrated wavelengths of light to support different processes in the skin. We use medical-grade panels delivering red light, typically 630 to 660nm, for deeper-skin support, and blue light, typically 415nm, for surface concerns such as acne-causing bacteria. It works as a standalone session or alongside another treatment. Our guide to red vs blue LED light therapy explains what each wavelength does and how a course is usually spaced.

• • Treatment time: 20 minutes
• • Recovery: usually not required, make-up and normal activity straight after
• • Sensation: gentle warmth, no needles
• • Suits: most skin types and tones, often used alongside other treatments
• • Less suited: photosensitising medications, active eye conditions

Eye protection is provided during treatment. Tell your clinician about any photosensitising medication at consultation.

TempSure delivers controlled radiofrequency energy to the deeper layers of the skin. That warmth supports the body's own collagen remodelling, which can improve firmness and texture over a course of sessions. There are no needles, and the device monitors temperature throughout to keep energy delivery consistent.

• • Treatment time: 30 to 60 minutes depending on the area
• • Recovery: usually not required, normal activity and make-up straight after
• • Sensation: warm, most people compare it to a warm massage
• • Suits: mild to moderate skin laxity on the face, jawline and neck
• • Less suited: pregnancy, pacemakers, active skin infection at the treatment site

Risks include temporary redness or warmth and, rarely, burns. Change is gradual and usually needs several sessions. Your clinician explains what to expect at consultation.

Dermapen 4 is a clinical microneedling device that drives a single-use sterile cartridge of 16 fine needles vertically into the skin, at a depth set between 0.2mm and 3.0mm. The controlled micro-injury prompts the skin to repair, and that repair lays down new collagen over the following weeks. It has a dedicated scar setting for acne and surgical scarring.

• • Treatment time: around 60 minutes including numbing
• • Needle depth: adjustable 0.2mm to 3.0mm in 0.1mm steps
• • Cartridge: single-use, sterile, 16 needles at 33 gauge
• • Recovery: redness for 24 to 48 hours, light flaking for 2 to 5 days
• • Suits: texture, fine lines, pores, acne and surgical scarring, stretch marks
• • Less suited: active infection, active inflammatory acne, recent isotretinoin, keloid history

Microneedling breaks the skin surface. Risks include prolonged redness, swelling, bruising, infection, cold sore reactivation, pigmentation changes and scarring. Risk and recovery are discussed at consultation before anything is booked.

SQT does the same job as conventional microneedling, without a device. Spongilla spicules, microscopic silica structures harvested from freshwater sponge, are massaged into the skin over about five minutes. They seat in the epidermis and keep stimulating the skin for up to 72 hours before shedding. No numbing cream is used. There is a visible peeling phase, so this one needs planning around your calendar.

• • Application: around 5 minutes of massage within a 45-minute appointment
• • Recovery: tingling and redness for 24 to 48 hours, then peeling for 4 to 7 days
• • Sensation: prickling and heat that builds during application and settles the same day
• • Suits: congestion, pigmentation, texture, acne-prone and acne-scarred skin
• • Less suited: active skin infection, recent isotretinoin, marine allergy, keloid history

Risks include prolonged redness, itching, dryness, a temporary breakout, irritation, and pigmentation changes that can last longer in deeper skin tones. Rarely, an allergic reaction to the spicules can occur.

Préime Pure Exosome Solution and Préime PDRN Booster Solution are topical serums applied during and immediately after needling, while the micro-channels are still open. Neither is injected, and neither is booked on its own. People ask what is actually going onto their skin, and the honest answer involves where the ingredients come from, which is worth reading before you book.

• • Applied topically during and after needling, not injected
• • Pure Exosome Solution: exosomes derived from donated human umbilical cord blood
• • PDRN Booster Solution: 1% polydeoxyribonucleotide from salmon trout milt, plus glutathione, hyaluronates and peptides
• • Used within dermal stamping, Dermapen 4 and SQT treatments rather than on their own
• • Recovery follows the needling treatment they are used within

These serums are used inside a treatment that breaks the skin surface, so the risks of that treatment apply. Tell your clinician about any allergy, including shellfish and marine allergy, before a PDRN-based serum is used on your skin.