Does Dermaplaning Help Your Skincare Work Better?

Can a non-invasive skin therapy enhance your skincare routine and skin health? The answer is yes, and it’s called dermaplaning. Dermaplaning facial benefits include radiant, healthy, glowing, and more even skin.

Today’s article will dive into dermaplaning, how to dermaplane, and the benefits, especially when used in conjunction with the highest quality NassifMD® facial plastic surgeon skincare. Keep reading as we explore:

• What is dermaplaning?
• The benefits of dermaplaning
• How a dermaplaning facial or dermaplaning at home enhances skincare
• Must-have skincare products to use after dermaplaning

What is Dermaplaning?

Dermaplaning is a non-invasive skin rejuvenating therapy most often performed by a dermatologist or aesthetician at a medical spa with a stainless steel surgical scalpel (dermaplaning tool). Using short strokes, the professional removes impurities on the skin’s surface, a thin layer of skin, and hair. This service may be part of a dermaplane facial or an add-on to another facial or treatment. It’s not painful, and feels much like shaving, but where the primary purpose is to improve the skin’s health and appearance.

You can also dermaplane at home with a dermaplaner designed for this purpose (not a regular razor). It may be a disposable tool with a sharp blade or a tool in which you frequently replace the blade. Look for a tool with a guard.

What Are the Benefits of Dermaplaning?

Dermaplaning is non-invasive and low-risk; it has many benefits to the skin’s appearance. There are short and long-term benefits of dermaplaning when used as a regular part of your skincare routine.

It can help:

• Improve skin texture
• Improve skin tone
• Brighten the skin
• Improve makeup application
• Promote skin turnover and healing
• Decrease acne scars
• Enhance your skincare routine
• And more!

How Dermaplaning Prepares Your Skin for Better Skincare

One of the most significant dermaplaning benefits is its enhancement of your skincare routine and the active ingredients in your products. Let’s examine this benefit of dermaplaning in greater detail.

Exfoliation

Exfoliation is the process of removing dead skin cells, impurities, dirt, and debris from the skin’s surface. It promotes new skin cells and allows younger skin to shine through. Exfoliation is a critical skincare step for improving the appearance of the skin.

We often think about chemical exfoliators, including hydroxy acids, and physical exfoliators, like abrasive face scrubs. However, dermaplaning benefits also include exfoliation. Dermaplaning gently exfoliates the skin, removing the very thin outer layer containing dead skin cells, hair, and other impurities.

In short, does dermaplaning help exfoliate? Yes!

Removal of Peach Fuzz

While removing fine vellus hair (peach fuzz) is not the primary goal of dermaplaning, it’s often a helpful and desired result that helps the skin appear more balanced and even. Hair can trap dead skin and create a barrier to product absorption. For those with thicker peach fuzz because of hormones, genetics, age, or other factors, dermaplaning can be an effective and safe strategy for removing it.

Enhanced Skin Receptivity

After exfoliating and removing peach fuzz, the skin is naturally more receptive. You’ve created a clean slate to apply skincare products, allowing active ingredients to penetrate deeper. This increased receptivity creates more robust and significant results from the skincare products you already invest in.

Skincare Benefits of Dermaplaning

Dermaplaning prepares the skin for your skincare routine and enhances the benefits you see and feel. Adding dermaplaning to care for your skin helps to:

• Increase skincare absorption rates
• Improve the efficacy of the active ingredients you use
• Promote a smoother and brighter complexion

Increased Absorption of Skincare Products

Dead skin cells, clogged pores, facial hair, and slow skin turnover can hinder product absorption, but exfoliation resulting from dermaplaning helps remove these barriers. Research shows dermaplaning enhances absorption rates, especially of hydrophilic (water-loving) molecules.

Improved Efficacy of Active Ingredients

The simple truth is that increased absorption means the active ingredients in your skincare products work better. They can penetrate the skin more deeply and have biological effects on multiple layers of skin cells.

Active ingredients include:

• Hyaluronic acid
• Vitamin C
• Retinol (vitamin A)
• Skincare peptides
• Niacinamide (vitamin B3)
• Ceramides
• Vitamin E
• Plant extracts

Brighter and Smoother Complexion

Better absorption and efficacy of active ingredients translate to better-looking skin! Improved absorption is one reason dermaplaning is associated with softer, smoother, and brighter-looking skin. Dermaplaning promotes a smoother makeup application experience, which also influences the complexion. Additionally, removing peach fuzz affects how the light reflects off the skin and can contribute to an improved appearance.

What Skincare Products After Dermaplaning

Before dermaplaning, make sure your face is clean. You can cleanse and tone at home prior to dermaplaning. At a medical spa, dermaplaning is done after a facial and before product application. Dermaplaning is done on dry skin, and a professional may be more skilled at this compared to trying it at home.

Dermaplaning is the exfoliating step of your skincare routine. After dermaplaning, follow your usual skincare routine with serums and moisturizers. Don’t forget sunscreen during the day to protect the exfoliated skin.

Hydrating Serums

After dermaplaning, use hydrating serums to pull moisture into the skin and lock it there. These serums will feel soothing to your face after dermaplaning. If you use more than one serum, layer them from thinnest to thickest.

Recommended hydrating serums include:

• NassifMD® Hydro-Screen includes active ingredients such as hyaluronic acid, ceramides, and retinol to repair, firm, and protect the skin.

• NassifMD® Pro Peptide Collagen Serum hydrates with hyaluronic acid, beta-glucan, and lipopeptide complex for hydrated skin that looks even, smooth, and clear.

• NassifMD® Age Defying Neck and Decollete Serum targets the skin under the chin and chest with powerful hydrating peptides and niacinamide.

• NassifMD® Night Therapy Serum works to hydrate, firm, and plump the skin overnight with plant extracts, vitamin C, and hyaluronic acid.

Brightening Serums

NassifMD® Skincare serums contain a synergy of high potency active ingredient to target specific goals, such as brightening. These brightening serums are excellent to use with hydrating serums after a dermaplaning treatment.

• NassifMD® Radiance Brightening Booster – Vitamin C Serum evens the skin’s tone, addresses hyperpigmentation, and boosts collagen production with therapeutic levels of vitamin C.

• NassifMD® Dermaflect Smart Day Therapy Serum smooths and protects the skin while blurring imperfections with vitamin C, hyaluronic acid, and an antioxidant complex.

• NassifMD® Hydro-Gel Serum brightens your natural glow and radiance while protecting the skin from acne and shine with hyaluronic acid, retinol, and plant extracts.

Moisturizers

After applying serums and allowing them to absorb into your freshly dermaplaned skin, seal in the active ingredients with one of these moisturizers from NassifMD® Skincare:

• NassifMD® Soft Focus Hydrating Day Cream nourishes and protects the skin for a fresh, plump, and glowing appearance. Key ingredients include floraesters, hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, and peptides.

• NassifMD® Pure Hydration Night Cream rejuvenates and hydrates the skin while you sleep with key ingredients, including galactoarabinan, plant extracts, and vitamin C.

• NassifMD® Hydro-Screen Souffle intensely hydrates, nourishes, and plumps facial and body skin with hyaluronic acid, ceramides, and antioxidants.

• NassifMD® Skin Barrier Balm is the perfect last step of your skincare routine in the evening following a dermaplane facial or other medical spa treatments. It creates a barrier to lock in serums and moisturizers while deeply calming, nourishing, and allowing the skin to heal.

Sunscreen

Dermaplaning, like other forms of exfoliation, can make the skin more sensitive to the sun’s UV rays and sun damage.

If you’re dermaplaning during the day, you’ll need to wear sunscreen after your treatment and for several days. Truthfully, daily sunscreen use should be part of your morning skincare routine every day, year-round.

Try these safe mineral facial sunscreens:

• NassifMD® Protect & Hydrate is our lightweight, tinted, moisturizing sunscreen with hyaluronic acid and antioxidants.

• NassifMD® Simply Hydration is our untinted daily sunscreen, containing hyaluronic acid, vitamin E, and plant extracts.

Dermaplaning can feel intimidating at first, but it’s a simple, low-risk technique to exfoliate the skin and improve its appearance. The best part of dermaplaning is how it increases the absorption of your skincare products, allowing your routine to be more effective. If you want brighter, smoother skin, call your local medical spa and try dermaplaning today.

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