What Is LED Light Therapy?

LED light therapy has become a popular aesthetic skin care service due to its impressive benefits for skin and overall well-being. This blog post will discuss the basics and benefits of this life-changing cosmetic treatment.

What Does LED Light Therapy Do?

LED light therapy is a unique cosmetic treatment that utilises light-emitting diodes (LED). Its ability to emit specific light around a particular wavelength makes it unique. LED light therapy uses varying wavelengths to improve your skin health and appearance.

Light doesn’t merely brighten the room you’re in—it produces a biological effect on the room’s inhabitants. For example, the sun’s ultraviolet rays can give people sunburn, and the infrared light in a sauna produces heat that helps improve skin and cardiovascular function.

LED light is unique because the human eye can see it. You cannot see ultraviolet and infrared light. However, you can see the light from blue and red LED light therapy. Our eyes can see light that measures 300 nm to 750 nm. The range corresponds to a rainbow’s colours: red, orange, blue, yellow, green, and violet.

Two of the most popular LED light therapies, blue and red LED light therapies, have different wavelengths. The former measures 400 nm to 500 nm (nanometres), while the latter measures 600 nm to 700 nm. Thus, red LED light therapy penetrates your skin deeper than blue LED light therapy.

Benefits of LED Light Therapy

LED light therapy provides many health-related benefits, including:

• Acne reduction: Blue LED light therapy’s antibacterial properties eliminate acne-causing bacteria.
• Anti-ageing effects: Red LED light therapy triggers collagen and elastin production and helps prevent fine lines and wrinkles from appearing on your skin.
• Wound healing: Red LED light therapy effectively treats injuries by facilitating wound healing and reducing inflammation.
• Hyperpigmentation and redness: LED light therapy minimises skin inflammation, evens out your skin tone, and diminishes hyperpigmentation, rosacea, and redness.
• Better mood: LED light therapy helps boost your mood by regulating circadian rhythms and increasing serotonin levels.
• Improved sleep: This cosmetic procedure helps regulate melatonin production, a hormone that regulates your sleep-wake cycle. You will fall asleep faster and enjoy deeper sleep.
• Immune function: LED light therapy stimulates your body’s immune response and helps prevent infections and illnesses.

LED light therapy typically results in skin improvement after several weeks. However, for non-skin-related benefits such as pain management and improved athletic performance, you can see some of them after just one meeting with your cosmetic specialist. Regardless of your goals, five to six weeks is a good time frame to gauge your results.

In terms of frequency, people generally reap optimum benefits when they have four to five weekly LED light therapy sessions. You can enjoy these impressive benefits with one or two weekly sessions with your aesthetician.

Patients are cautioned against having excessive amounts of LED light therapy as it can result in unwanted side effects. For example, too much green or blue LED light therapy can cause insomnia because of its detrimental effect on melatonin production. Having too much blue LED light therapy and red LED light therapy can cause anxiety and fatigue, respectively.

What Is Blue LED Light Therapy?

Blue LED light therapy is a cosmetic treatment that helps improve skin health because of its antibacterial properties. Its wavelength measures between 400 nm and 500 nm.

An estimated 100 to 200 scientific studies have proven blue LED light therapy’s benefits, including:

• Improved skin function: Blue LED light therapy helps improve skin flaws such as atopic dermatitis, acne, and psoriasis.
• Minimal sebum production: Sebum is an oily substance your sebaceous glands produce. Although sebum has skin and hair benefits, too much of it can result in acne and inflammation. Blue LED light therapy helps keep sebum production in check.
• Whitehead and blackhead treatment: If your skin is prone to whiteheads and blackheads, blue LED light therapy can help diminish these imperfections.
• Anti-inflammatory effects: This cosmetic procedure helps prevent skin inflammation. Consequently, you will enjoy a clearer, revitalised complexion.

What Is Red LED Light Therapy?

Red LED light therapy (photobiomodulation) involves the aesthetician exposing the patient to red and near-infrared light from an LED light panel. The red light penetrates the skin and revitalises muscle tissues and cells.

Red LED light therapy’s benefits include:

• Enhanced collagen synthesis: Red LED light therapy helps increase collagen production. Collagen, a protein found in your skin, bones, tendons, and tissues), helps reduce fine lines and wrinkles.
• Better skin elasticity: This cosmetic procedure’s ability to increase collagen levels rejuvenates skin elasticity and firmness, making you look younger.
• Anti-inflammatory benefits: Red LED light therapy helps minimise inflammation and redness and treat skin conditions such as rosacea, eczema, and psoriasis.
• Accelerated healing: This cosmetic treatment’s ability to boost cellular regeneration facilitates faster healing of cuts, wounds, and surgical incisions. The healing process also reduces the appearance of scars.
• Improved hair regrowth: Undergoing red LED light therapy stimulates your hair follicles, promotes hair growth, offsets hair loss, and enhances hair thickness.
• Increased ATP production: Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a molecule that carries energy and acts as a catalyst for numerous cellular processes in your body. Enhanced ATP production becomes vital as people age because it helps increase energy levels, repair cellular damage, and ensure optimal tissue and organ function.
• Lower stress levels: If you had a stressful week at work, red LED light therapy can help lower your stress levels and improve your well-being.
• Improved sleep quality: This cosmetic procedure helps boost melatonin levels for better sleep quality. Melatonin is the hormone that regulates your sleep-wake cycle.
• Better overall health and vitality: Red LED light therapy supplies your cells with more energy. Consequently, your body’s cells will reproduce healthy cells and treat many health issues, including osteoarthritis, psoriasis, scars, wound healing, carpal tunnel syndrome.

Sydney’s Premier LED Light Therapy Specialists

Flawless Aesthetics specialises in LED light therapy to help improve your skin quality and overall health and vitality. Please contact us between 10:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. AEST, Monday through Friday, to schedule an appointment. One of our friendly staff members will respond to your enquiry immediately.