Quote:
Originally Posted by jp4m2  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... |
Great info, thank you! Btw, you had PMd me back during when this thread was going, and gave me the best info - I still have it printed, in my 'peel' folder at home
.
That's exactly what I'm concerned about too...just being so irritated w/ the whole process, and getting less than expected results.
Your comment about getting the same result w/ longer use of glys is helpful, and sounds much more doable. Do you think I should now go up in %? I'm tolerating current % really well.
So, would I possibly see more benefit going from 60% Gly to 70% Gly and from 40% lactic to 65%...? Or, would the change be sort of negligible?