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Mon May 07, 2007 10:02 am |
I just tried the TCA peel last night. I bought a 15% TCA from MUAC, and while it did sting on those brown spots that I was treating, there was no frosting. I waited 3 minutes, and neutralized it followed by neosporin. Did I mess up? Should I have waited till I saw the frosting? If I messed up, how long do I wait before I can do another treatment? So far, my brown spots look the same as before the treatment. |
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Mon May 07, 2007 10:37 am |
I think you may need to layer the TCA in order to get a good effect. Frosting will most likely bring the best results, from what I have read. But if you just did the peel less than one day ago, you won't see any peeling yet.
You shouldn't try another TCA for at least 3 - 4 weeks minimum, depending on your age, from what I've read too.
The make em heal website has a forum devoted to chemical peels. I got a lot of info there. |
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Mon May 07, 2007 10:55 am |
I've noticed that I have to layer and frost in order to get a good peel. I'm not even talking about getting a deeper peel by layering, just the quality of the peel. When I didn't layer it, skin looked bad and took ages to peel - almost 10 days with 12% TCA peel. |
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Mon May 07, 2007 1:13 pm |
Thank you both. Did you soak your q-tip with the TCA solution? My q-tip felt a little dry but I dipped the entire q-tip head in the TCA bottle. I didn't want it to drip.
Did you rub the spots you were treating back and forth? Did you have to apply any pressure?
How many minutes did it take before the frosting appeared?
I read the instructions that came with the TCA 15% that it could take 10 days to peel. |
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Mon May 07, 2007 5:53 pm |
I don't do it with Q tips but with a gauze.
I do go back and forth for every layer. I let it dry, put more solution on the gauze and go for a second layer until I frost. It usually takes 2-3 layers. |
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Mon May 07, 2007 6:01 pm |
The same thing happened to me with the 12.5 percent TCA. I might have even gone 14 days before I peeled. Ugh. Cherisse, I did have one area that frosted, right above my left eyebrow and that peeled sooner than other areas. Like Ibianca says, I'd use gauze.
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Mon May 07, 2007 9:13 pm |
I have no idea what you gals were talking about using gauze? Then how can you tell if you're applying the TCA to the right spots? I'm only spot treating the brown spots and try very hard not to go out of the perimeter of each one. |
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Tue May 08, 2007 1:29 pm |
Oh, in that case it's ok. I just do whole face peels, not spot treatment and it would be rediculous to do it with Q tips |
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Tue May 08, 2007 2:26 pm |
My derm used gauze for full face application (it was a Jessner's peel) and he pushed down as he was rubbing it on. He did several layers, and more in some areas then others. Then he used a Q-tip for the spot treatments with TCA. He used gauze for TCA in the entire region of the nasal labials. HTH! |
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Tue May 08, 2007 2:41 pm |
Thanks both for the clarification. I'm too scared to do a whole face. I am not seeing any darker colors on my brown spots. I doubt they will be peeling. I'll have to try again in 3-4 weeks. |
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