Laser hair removal for skin care; "A laser is a machine that produces a laser beam."
It's a narrow beam of concentrated light produced by a special machine; used for cutting of hard materials, and for hair treatments too.
How effective a laser hair removal will be is dependent upon several factors including skin type and hair color. Such laser factors include skin condition, sun exposure, and the cycle of the hair.
Laser hair treatment affects the skin in different ways as it is dependent on the various 'skin types'. Remember we have said this before.
These four basic skin types include - African descent, Caucasian European, Eastern Asian, and Middle Eastern or Mediterranean for short.
It may interest you to know that these four skin types listed here have several things in common, such as the skin's layered components, the number of hair follicles, and the thickness of the Dermis and Epidermis.
However, there are numerous characteristics of each skin type that distinguishes it from the others. Ok, let's see some of those characteristics of each skin type that are very different;
Caucasian Europeans are thought to have the most varied skin type of all the groups. Persons from this group have light skin with great variation in skin color amongst them which is determined by heredity.
This people are the best candidates for laser hair treatment. Generally, because of their scintillating features, they will need fewer treatments thus attaining the best results in the shortest possible time.
Overall, it can be deduced that the effectiveness of laser hair removal on individuals from this group stems from the combination of their hair and skin color.
Individuals of African descent, especially those with dark brown skin are poor candidates for laser treatment. The reason is that the laser light that is absorbed into the skin pigment causes burns, stretch marks, scars, and keloids.
Dark skin has an effect on the laser beam; it causes the laser beam to be drawn away from its target area thus rendering the group's skin as weak one for laser hair removal.
People in Eastern Asian descent, which includes China, Korea and Japan, are thought to be the ideal group for laser hair removal. It is so because they generally have the least amount of facial and body hair.
They are good candidates for this kind of treatment because their hair is dark, and they have minimal skin pigmentation (same as natural coloring of the skin).
Middle Eastern and Mediterranean people tend to have the most facial and body hair. Their skin color varies; it's either dark white or medium brown.
People with lighter skin generally make better candidates for laser treatments. People in this group sometimes use skin bleaching agents, such as 4% hydroquinone to lighten the skin as much as possible.
This is done to improve on the effectiveness of the laser treatment and to reduce the risk of skin burn. This ethnic group is thought to have an increased risk of hyperpigmentation.
The combination of hair color with the skin type; assist in determining the effects of laser hair treatment. It is believed that black or dark brown hair type is usually coarser and contains the most pigmentation.
Factors as these make it the easiest to treat. This is so because the laser light is most easily absorbed by the dark pigmentation. Also note that lighter brown hair usually requires more treatments than darker hair types.
Lighter hairs are difficult to treat with laser because the lighter the hair color, penetration of the laser beam into the hair follicles becomes more difficult. Red and light blonde hair contains phemelianin pigment that makes light absorption very difficult.
On the contrary, grey or white hair does not contain any known pigmentation at all, therefor; the possibility of absorbing light is not there. They have zero tolerance for light absorbability.
Laser hair removal is based mostly determined by skin type and hair color. The two effective devices used in determining this are the Fitzpatrick Skin Phototype Scale and the Lancer Ethnicity Scale.
They provide professional technicians an ease to determining the effectiveness of laser hair treatment based on skin type and hair color, hence providing excellent results and top quality hair care.
Light skin with dark hair remains the perfect combination of skin type and hair color for laser hair treatment. Persons in this category will have the best results with the least treatments and effort.
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