Which Facial Peel Is Right for Your Skin?

A facial peel is a facial treatment. It’s something you can perform on your own at home. Or you can have a certified aesthetician remove the dirt and pollution from the top layer of your skin and reveal fresh, clean skin underneath. 

The process, as described, might sound a little too intimidating to you. But there’s no need to get overwhelmed. At COSMEDIX, we offer several different types of peels designed to meet various skin conditions and skin types, making it easier to find the best facial peel for your skincare needs.

In this blog, we are going to go through pre/post peel treatment, different types of peels, and what to expect post-peel with the help of COSMEDIX education director Lynnette Cole.

Facial Peel Prep

Before debating if you want to do a peel or not, it is important that your skin is properly prepped to ensure that you get the best results from your chosen peel. Our Treatment Prep Starter Kit helps prepare your skin for the next step. This facial peel prep helps loosen and exfoliate dead and damaged skin while helping to improve skin tone and improve hydration. This 4-Piece Kit includes:

• Purity Clean Exfoliating Cleanser: Helps to gently lift away dirt, oil, and impurities as it balances and clarifies the look of skin for a softer, more radiant-looking complexion.

• Simply Brilliant 24/7 Brightening Treatment: Helps address the look of discolouration with 10 skin-specific brightening ingredients to help improve the appearance of a dull, uneven skin tone.

• Define Age-Defying Treatment with Hydroxy Acids & Retinol: Gently exfoliates the skin to promote a smoother-looking texture by helping to reduce the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, and an uneven skin tone.

• Hydrate+ Broad Spectrum SPF 17 Moisturizing Sunscreen: A moisturizing sunscreen with SPF 17 provides much-needed hydration to the skin and helps address signs of aging while offering broad-spectrum UV protection.

At-Home Peels

If you want to perform a peel from the comfort of your home, we have some options for you! At-home peels contain fewer active ingredients than facial peels that you would receive from an aesthetician while still providing exfoliation for the skin. Keep reading to see what COSMEDIX Education Director Lynnette Cole said regarding the benefits of two different at-home peels.

PHA Hydration Peel

If you want to perform a peel at home without having to go to a professional treatment room, our PHA Hydration Peel is for you! 

This Refining Exfoliator peel helps to gently exfoliate dull, dead skin to help illuminate the appearance of your complexion. 

Formulated with PHA, Lactobionic Acid, and Phytic Acid, this at-home peel helps soften, smooth, and brighten the appearance of skin, making it an excellent facial peel for sensitive skin.

We asked COSMEDIX Educator Lynette Cole about at-home peels, and she said, “The PHA Hydration Peel is infused with antioxidants to help hydrate, yet is an effective at home peel that exfoliates and smooths the skin. Apply PHA Hydration Peel after cleansing and let the gentle multi-acid formula “do its thang” to help minimize fine lines and dark spots.”

Pure Enzymes

As we continue our conversation with Lynette, she added that Pure Enzymes often gets overlooked as an at-home treatment. 

Pure Enzymes is a Cranberry Exfoliating Mask. It works by gently polishing away dead and dull skin to help reveal a more radiant and softer version of the complexion. 

When we asked Lynette about Pure Enzymes, she said,  “The skin may be more sensitive to the sun [for at least 24 hours] post-exfoliation, so you’ll want to monitor your lifestyle activities, wear sunscreen, and perhaps take a pause for a day or two from using any active ingredients, including Retinol. 

With Pure enzymes, you may not experience flaking or peeling at all, and that’s ok; it really comes down to how your skin looks and feels.”

The Difference in Professional Peels

COSMEDIX offers several different peels depending on which salon you visit. Our peels vary from level 1 to level 2 depending on the strength of the facial peel. 

Level 1 peels use more natural forms of Alpha Hydroxy Acids (AHA) and Beta Hydroxy Acids (BHA) to help exfoliate away dead skin cells. 

Level 2 peels are much more powerful and provide medium-depth resurfacing to help the skin appear tighter and smoother. With Level 2 Peels, a 10-day pre-treatment is required due to the intensity of the treatment.

Level 1 Peels

Pomegranate Peel | Hydrating Exfoliating Peel

Recommended for aging skin, blemish-prone skin, and hyperpigmentation

A pick-me-up for most skin types that is formulated with L-Lactic Acid, Resveratrol, and Pomegranate Seed Oil that helps to gently exfoliate the skin to leave skin more radiant, renewed, and dewy-looking.

Blueberry Smoothie | Polishing Antioxidant Peel

Recommended for oily skin and/or blemish-prone skin

Part L-Lactic Acid exfoliant, part manual scrub, this treatment helps smooth and soften rough, uneven skin for a balanced-looking complexion and smoother texture.

Level 2 Peels

Blueberry Jessner | Jessner Peel

A potent facial peel for acne formulated with Salicylic Acid, L-Lactic Acid, and Blueberry Extract that helps remove impurities, reduce visible blemishes, lift away stubborn dark spots, and smooth over lines and wrinkles.

Deep Sea Peel | Stimulating Herbal Peel

A non-acid facial peel formulated with Seaweed Extract and Sea Herbs that utilizes manual exfoliation to help resurface the skin, lifting away stubborn dark spots and helping to soften the look of acne scarring.

Post Facial Peel

Taking care of your skin after you receive a peel is uber important, as your skin requires a little more TLC than usual. Our Post Treatment Starter Kit contains moisturizing skincare that helps to soothe skin by helping to reduce redness and increase hydration. 

This post-peel kit helps to ensure that your skin is receiving adequate moisture and protection so your recovery process is more comfortable. The 4-piece kit includes:

• Benefit Clean Gentle Cleanser: An ultra-gentle facial cleanser that helps to lift away dirt, oil, impurities, and stubborn makeup while also helping to soothe and hydrate the complexion.
• Cell ID Nutritive Defense Serum: A restorative serum that helps reduce the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, and dark spots for a healthier-looking complexion.
• P.R. Skin Recovering Serum: An ultra-soothing serum formulated with powerhouse antioxidants, peptides, and plant-based extracts that helps to deliver intense hydration and replenishment to sensitive, post-procedure skin.
• Hydrate+ Broad Spectrum SPF 17 Moisturizing Sunscreen: A moisturizing sunscreen with SPF 17 that hydrates and replenishes skin with essential moisture to help promote a brighter, healthier-looking complexion.

If you want to learn more about facial peels, skin concern kits, or other bestselling skincare products, head to cosmedix.com.