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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  I was going to start a thread about chemical peels, but recalled we already had one. I do 60% glycolic peels and 40% lactic acid peels at home...but still have the at-home TCA 15% that I haven't yet used bc I'm nervous.
Anyone else have a TCA since this thread in 2009? |
Ann, I've done about three TCA 15% peels over the past 1 1/2 years. The 15% is considered to be a mild peel. It's probably close to the gly your using. I was soooo nervous doing it. I would have panicked if I had not read about them and the frosting that can occur with them. Since I was prepared it went well.
It really wasn't much different than the gly., except it was self timing and the gly isn't. You shouldn't peel in sheets, it's more of a light flaking and minor little *peeleys*. Having said that I'm not a big fan of them. I don't like the down time. My face was tighter and a bit more peeling, more so in the frosted areas. By the time I did the third TCA I had worked my way up to three layers to get it to frost. I've never gotten a * complete* frost, it's always spotty. It those areas where it did frost it seemed to peel in a thin patch. In those areas my skin did look smoother. During the flaking and peeling process I didn't like the way my skin felt during the down time, it made me very irritable. I just wanted my regular skin back. It took about ten days to get there.
If you continue to use the gly's you'll get to the same end result as using a TCA but it just takes a little longer to get there. I'm not sure why some peoples b/a pic's have such dramatic looking results because I have never had a *Holy Cow!* moment using any of these acids. It's always been very sublte changes. I should have taken pic's before I started, I might have changed a lot and I just don't notice it because I see my face everyday.
I have a 25% TCA but I haven't gotten up the nerve to use it yet.....I'm mainly going to stick to the lactics' and the higher % gly's...