Can glycolic acid 60 be used for facial peeling? How to use glycolic acid for facial peeling at home?

Acid peeling is a very popular method of beauty and skin care nowadays, but it also has many risks. Some people who don’t know how to do it may damage the skin on their faces. Let’s take a look at the relevant instructions about acid peeling below.

Can glycolic acid 60 be used on the face?

Glycolic acid 60 can be used on the face.

What is glycolic acid?

The fruit acid we often talk about is actually glycolic acid, which is actually the most common type of fruit acid (others include mandelic acid and citric acid). The characteristics of glycolic acid (hereinafter referred to as fruit acid) are: it is small in size and can easily penetrate deep into the skin to exfoliate the skin and unclog the pores. Under its powerful stimulating effect, it can promote the production of skin collagen and the metabolism of skin pigments, playing an anti-aging and whitening role. Therefore, fruit acid is widely used to remove acne, closed comedones, shrink pores, and blackheads. It is also a common dish used in beauty salons for anti-aging and whitening.

What are the specific fruit acid brands?

The most commonly used one in hospitals and beauty salons is NeoStrata from the United States, which is known as the "father of fruit acid". Its concentrations are 20%, 35%, 50%, and 70%. The 60% concentration of glycolic acid mentioned by the questioner should be from other brands. The more well-known 60% fruit acid essence is Natura Bisse Fruit Acid Essence from Spain.

So what is the difference between so many concentrations?

According to the concentration difference, fruit acid can be divided into three gradients: 1. Low-concentration fruit acid (<10%) first breaks down the small groups of epidermal keratinocytes, and then eliminates these aged keratinocytes, which plays a role in improving roughness, dullness, and conditioning skin quality; 2. Medium-concentration fruit acid (10-30%) can reach the dermis tissue, and has a good effect on acne, lightening dark spots, and smoothing wrinkles; 3. High-concentration fruit acid (>30%) has a very strong penetration power, which can remove aged keratin in one go, and the effect is strong, and it needs to be operated by a doctor;

What grade does 60% glycolic acid belong to?

Obviously, a 60% concentration of fruit acid is considered a strong medicine. What does strong medicine mean? The effect is good, but the risk is also high. Now let’s talk about how acid peeling can damage your face.

Pay attention to safety when doing acid flushing, don't try it lightly

It is understood that acid peeling is a popular beauty project in the past two years. Acid peeling depends on the skin. Different acids are targeted at different skin types, and the effect of peeling varies from person to person. Generally, it is not recommended to peel acid at home because of the risk factor. You should go to a professional skin care company to do it. If you want to do acid peeling at home to save various service fees, you must control the time during the acid peeling process, and be sure to do a repair treatment after the peeling to prevent other skin conditions.

Let’s talk about this: the higher the acid concentration, the more irritating it will be to our skin, and some skin types cannot withstand this kind of irritation.

60% acid is already very strong, and strong medicine means that although the effect is fast, it is also very irritating.

When doing acid peeling, we have to start with a low concentration to see how our skin can accept it. A high concentration of 60 percent is indeed too high. It is recommended not to use such a strong acid at home. The probability of failure is really high, so don't try it lightly.

Why do people say that acid treatment will damage your face?

The higher the concentration of fruit acid, the better the effect, the greater the irritation, and the more likely various adverse reactions will occur after the operation. The 60% fruit acid mentioned by the poster is a super powerful medicine.

The skin irritation reaction after high-concentration fruit acid is applied to the face, which is the key point for doctors to judge whether to end the treatment. Generally speaking, there will be obvious skin reactions within a few minutes after the fruit acid is applied to the face, such as:

① Short-term itching and pain;

②Redness and burning of the skin;

The skin irritation reaction can be understood as a thermometer. When it is within the normal range, everything will be fine. Once it exceeds the skin's tolerance limit, the alarm will be sounded and the reaction will be stopped. Even worse, some irreversible situations may occur.

Unlike a thermometer, the thermometer for fruit acid is not a fixed value. In other words, each person's skin tolerance is different, and the retention time of fruit acid is also different. It requires an experienced doctor to decide when to end your treatment by asking about your personal feelings + the skin reactions he sees. As a newbie, you can’t hold back on the fruit acid. Once you use too much acid, various problems will arise. The mildest ones may look like this:

This is a typical skin burn. What does it mean? Because the acid stays for too long, it causes skin reactions similar to burns, severe ones like the one above, and milder ones like the one below;

Mild burns can be repaired and improved in a short time, but more serious burns can cause pigmentation. This can be understood as a follow-up reaction to skin burns. The fruit acid gave the skin a slap in the face, causing the skin to break and form a scab. The little cutie was very angry, with a dark face and a cold attitude. It will take more than half a year to appease him. Of course, if you already have chloasma, it will be more easily irritated after applying the acid, and it will become darker than before, such as the following:

The front can still be repaired, but the most serious scar is the one below. If the skin is just rubbed on the outside, this is too severe, and a hole is directly made on the skin, causing a sunken atrophic scar to form on the skin:

Topical products cannot correct this problem and expensive laser repair is usually required.

How to remove acid reliably?

The three adverse reactions mentioned above should be scary enough, so how can you do acid peeling on your own in a reasonable and reliable way?

Based on the principle of safety first, everyone should just buy low-concentration acid-exfoliating skin care products. After all, these are what manufacturers give us for personal use, while high-concentration acids are for doctors to use. It would be a waste of time and money to just join in the fun.

Acid-brushing skin care products can be divided into two categories: fruit acid (including glycolic acid, mandelic acid, etc.) and salicylic acid. Both can remove acne and whiten the skin. The difference is that the former has strong exfoliating power and is suitable for closed comedones and anti-aging; the latter has gentle oil control and is suitable for oily and sensitive skin.

Acid brushing tutorial

Be careful when doing acid peeling, as it is easy to damage your face if you are not careful. Generally speaking, acid peeling uses low-concentration weak acid, and 60% glycolic acid is too high. It is recommended for beginners to start with a low concentration. Acid peeling is actually very similar. You just need to build up tolerance at the beginning and then adjust flexibly. Let me share my own method:

First of all, when you get any skin care products, apply them behind your ears to see if you are allergic.

At the beginning, you should apply it thinly and pay attention to moisturizing when applying, otherwise it is easy to cause acne, peeling and redness. It is acid after all! You can use lotion as a primer before use. People with sensitive skin must use lotion as a primer, but remember to use lotion with simple ingredients and no efficacy. If the lotion contains acne-causing ingredients, fragrances, or preservatives, the penetration-enhancing effect of salicylic acid may cause it to exceed the absorption limit.

On the first day (for example, Monday), apply it to areas with thick cuticles, such as the T zone. If there is no adverse reaction after about 10-15 minutes, wash it off with clean water and apply some cream.

On the second day (Tuesday), apply only to the cheeks, using the same method as the previous day.

You can apply it on your entire face every other day (Thursday) for about 20 minutes. Everything else is the same.

The next day (Saturday), you can apply it on the entire face for 30 minutes (that is, extend the time by 10 minutes).

Everything else is the same. In this way, the rhythm can be gradually extended by 10-15 minutes each time. For skin with better tolerance, the rhythm can be gradually extended by 30 minutes each time.

Once full tolerance is established (after more than four hours of application), you can apply a primer and use it as a sleeping mask all night.

Precautions

If this is your first time using acid, I suggest you not to use a high concentration right away. The first function of glycolic acid is to remove dead skin cells, provided that the concentration is not too high. Seriously speaking, if the concentration is too high, it will cause a counter-effect on your skin, which will not only have no effect, but will also irritate your skin and increase the burden on your skin. After all, the more acidic it is, the more corrosive it is, and the more irritating it will be to your skin.

The second function of glycolic acid is whitening. Its working principle is to reduce the attachment of your skin epidermis and promote cell metabolism. But remember not to use acid peeling too frequently, because your skin is very fragile, not like steel or iron.

The most important point is that it is recommended that you use your hands to test the sensitivity of your skin before acid peeling.