Instead, visit Laser By Sia or read through our hundreds of free articles and find out what treatments will really work on your acne scars.

Microdermabrasion has been around for decades and involves polishing the surface of the skin with an abrasive. This treatment followed the kind of old-school thinking that decades ago decided that our top skin layers were ‘dead’ and needed to be removed.

But modern science has recently proven this is not the case. In fact, these top layers are crucial for our survival and over-exfoliating them results in an acceleration of the aging process, as well as skin irritation and sensitivity.

To effectively treat mid to medium-depth acne scars, simply smoothing the skin with microdermabrasion isn’t going to do it. To improve scars, you must stimulate the skin’s healing response, which releases collagen and elastin, something microdermabrasion does not do.

Instead, try Laser By Sia’s new Derma Pen for acne scars. This treatment stimulates collagen and elastin to be released into the dermis, to improve the appearance of scars. We also have a number of methods to treat deeper, pitted scars, so contact us now!

Because Laser By Sia is dedicated to arming everyone with the skin care facts so they can make informed decisions about their treatments, here are a few things you need to know about microdermabrasion:

• Microdermabrasion involves removing the upper layers of the epidermis using aluminum oxide crystals.
• This actions ‘smoothes’ the surface of the skin, which makes some people feel like their skin looks younger or absorbs product better.
• The idea that microdermabrasion removes wrinkles and scars is incorrect—wrinkles originate in the skin’s lower layer, the dermis, where as microdermabrasion only smoothes the upper epidermis and cannot affect the dermis.
• Microdermabrasion can also cause skin damage by impairing the skin’s epidermal barrier. This barrier protects the skin from pollutants and irritants. So when it is chronically over exfoliated, problems like eczema and rosacea can develop.
• Microdermabrasion can also accelerate aging by not only damaging the epidermal barrier so that blood and nutrients must be diverted from the dermis to fix it, but also by causing scar tissue to build up between the dermis and the epidermis, so that nutrients applied to the skin cannot reach the dermis.

For true anti aging, you must prompt the release of collagen and elastin at a dermal level, either through thermal stimulation, like our skin firming treatment; or through mildly wounding the skin, like our Derma Pen. Contact us now for more information!

But recent science suggests that microdermabrasion treatments may be accelerating the aging process of your skin. Microdermabrasion, and indeed all kinds of treatments that over-exfoliate the skin, damage the skin’s natural protective layer, the epidermal barrier.

This specialised barrier, which is made up of skin cells called corneocytes, is crucial to the functioning of our skin and helps to protect us from UV rays, allergens, and normalises oil production.

Why is the epidermal barrier important? Find out here!

If this barrier is damaged, the skin will divert blood and nutrients from the skins supporting layer, the dermis, to fix this barrier. And if the dermis is starved for nutrients, it will thin at an even faster rate than the aging process already causes.

Microdermabrasion also causes micro lesions to the skin and, over time, can cause the upper layer of the skin to callus, as well as thin the lower dermal layer.

So if you’re feeling a little congested, Laser By Sia clinics have an excellent alternative to microdermabrasion treatments. Our ultrasonic treatment uses sonic vibrations to gently clear blocked pores without stripping the epidermal barrier. The vibrations also help to deeply infuse the skin with nutrients from our medical-grade skin care, so they get down to the dermis, where they will do the most good.

Contact us now in Bondi, Sydney and Castle Hill.

Laser By Sia not only has the very best in laser technology for hair removal, we are also at the forefront of skin care technology.

Here are a few quick tips for taking better care of your skin this year:

• Always remove your makeup before bed. Skin repairs itself as we sleep, and it cannot to do this if it is choked with chemicals and blocked.
• Along this vein, always use natural mineral cosmetics, which will improve the quality of your skin and allow it to breathe.
• Only exfoliate once a week using gentle enzymes that don’t strip the epidermal barrier. Over-exfoliating using harsh abrasives will actually accelerate the aging process.
• Use chemical-free skin care—you would be shocked if you knew just how many chemicals are in your average products, including chemical left-overs from the petroleum industry.
• Get a medical-grade facial once a month. This kind of facial actually infuses nutrients into the deeper layer of the skin, to improve skin quality and rejuvenate from the inside out. Most other facials are just elaborate facial massages that smooth the surface of the skin only.
• Avoid treatments such as chemical peels and microdermabrasion, again, these will accelerate the aging process.
• Visit Laser By Sia for a thorough skin analysis and prescribed skin care program. This technology maps and skin now and predicts its condition in five years, so you can be prescribed a pre-emptive skin care program that works because it is tailor-made for you!

Or, simply contact Laser By Sia now!

And there’s nothing more potentially fraught with danger when it comes to our complexion than digging at those blackheads with a tool, or worse, our nails.

But fear not, Laser By Sia has an effective and painless way to tame those little buggers and ensure blackheads become nothing more than an uncomfortable memory.

Ultrasonic treatment uses thousands of sonic vibrations per second to get rid of blackheads and other congestion, without any sharp implements of any kind. Used as a part of our Mediderm Visage medical grade facials, we gentle remove blackheads, whiteheads and pimples, and then nourish the skin to regulate oil production so they don’t recur.

What is a medical grade facial? Find out here.

Ultrasonic not only how to get rid of blackheads, it also helps the nutrients from our medical grade skin care penetrate deeply into the skin to rejuvenate and restore.

So if you’re wondering how to get rid of blackheads effectively, visit a Laser By Sia clinic near you for a Mediderm Visage—stat! Laser By Sia is located at Castle Hill, Sydney City and Bondi.

Let us outline just a few:

• Laser By Sia’s Mediderm Visage facials are medical grade. What does this mean? This means that, unlike other facials, which just treat the surface layers of the skin, our facials actually penetrate down to the dermis to restore and boost this essential structural layer of the skin.
• Other facials may include old chemical peels or microdermabrasion, both of which significantly damage the essential epidermal barrier and lead to an acceleration of aging! But a facial at Laser By Sia is truly the best because it restores and protects the epidermal barrier, which ensures the skin functions the way nature intended.
• Laser By Sia’s facials include our new Bio Light therapy. Using wavelengths of light, we can heal and boost the skin. Light therapy works on common skin problems like acne, rosacea, capillaries, pigmentation, eczema and more, without pain or chemicals.

So visit Laser By Sia and find out for yourself why our facials are the best around!

Photodynamic therapy, or light therapy, has long been used by doctors and other medical professionals to heal common skin conditions, like bacterial infections, and is even used in advanced operating theatres around the world to accelerate healing.

But it is only in the last decade that the myriad of benefits available from photodynamic therapy have become more carefully studied and widely used.

Light therapy involves exposing the skin to various coloured light wavelengths to heal and improve the skin.

True or false: dynamic light therapy can get rid of acne. Click here for the answer.

Our Bio Light Therapy has been a boon for many of our clients suffering from conditions like acne, infections, aging, eczema, swelling, bruising, psoriasis and rosacea. This is because light therapy achieves accelerated wound healing, deep cell stimulation and a significant reduction in bacteria.

In our clinics, we use blue light therapy for acne, red light therapy to stimulate collagen and for skin rejuvenation, infra red light therapy to calm inflammation and assist skin healing, green light therapy to minimise capillaries, and yellow light therapy to reduce excess pigmentation.

Find out more about photodynamic therapy here or contact us now!

That’s right. By using our amazing technologies, skin care, medical-grade facials and the latest in skin care research, we can significantly improve the appearance and health of your skin, without surgery, at all our rejuvenation clinics.

You may be interested to know that there is a lot that can be done to rejuvenate the skin nowadays without resorting to surgery or even painful fraxel laser.

Is there a way to boost the skin’s own firming cells without pain or surgery? Find out here.

The key to skin rejuvenation is to boost collagen and elastin production in the skin to pre-aging levels. This provides the plump, taut look of young skin and reduces the look of sagging, wrinkles, hollows and more. Laser By Sia has a number of methods to boost collagen and elastin the skin, including our new skin tightening technology, our medical-grade facials, our medical-grade skin care, our new Dermapen, and our light therapy.

In fact Laser By Sia is at the forefront of all the latest anti-aging technologies at our rejuvenation clinics, including the latest cosmetic injectable techniques.

So for natural skin rejuvenation, contact a Laser By Sia skin rejuvenation clinic in Castle Hill, Bondi Junction and Sydney’s CBD.

But do we really need to be doing this?

If you are using an over-the-counter facial toner then the answer is: no!

The cosmetics companies would have you believe that a facial toner will magically ‘close your pores’ before you moisturise.

This is misleading in two respects: first, the pores are there to guide sebaceous oil to the surface of the skin and they do not, in fact, ever ‘close’.

Second, most facial toning products on the market today contain nothing more than water, alcohol, chemicals, fragrances and colours.

These chemicals can dry out your skin, causing the skin to produce more oil, and damage the natural lipid mantel, also called the epidermal barrier, that protects our bodies from environmental pollutants.

If your skin is normal and you use good quality, chemical-free skincare, then a facial toner is unnecessary.

If you like to use a toner, try Harmonize, a facial toner by Chiral Actives. Harmonize is a frequency-enhanced water, meaning it is anti-fungal and antibacterial, that heals and rejuvenates the skin. It is a treatment for acne, aging and wound healing and contains only purified water enhanced with fibroblast growth factor, keratinocyte growth factor, oxygen, plus antibacterial frequencies.

Contact us now for more information.

At Laser By Sia, we offer the latest in light therapies in conjunction with our chemical-free, medical grade skin care and our skin treatments, including blue light acne treatment.

Blue light acne treatment kills the bacteria that causes acne and stimulates the cells to heal and repair the skin.

Our Medi Light Therapy is amazing and can heal many skin conditions effectively, without chemicals or stripping the skin, including acne, because light therapy increases collagen synthesis, cellular growth and accelerates wound healing.

Used along with our medical grade acne treatments, blue light acne treatment can help heal existing acne, including acne that’s under the skin and not yet visible to the naked eye, regulate oil production and gently unblock pores.

To find out more about blue light acne treatment, visit Laser By Sia.