How to firm up loose skin fast
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Your skin’s loss of firmness is one of many things that occur when our body’s collagen and elastin supply starts to dwindle with age. Fortunately, there are lots of ways you can prevent as well as correct sagging skin without having to resort to something invasive like a facelift.
Happily, at Skin Renewal, we know how to send lax skin packing and offer treatments to help you tighten up your facial areas at all our branches in Cape Town – Cape Quarter, Constantia, Claremont and Willowbridge.
Lasers and light
Another way we tighten up loose skin at Skin Renewal is via various laser and light devices as well as Radiofrequency, just two being Titan and Exilis Elite. Both treatments heat up the deeper layers of your skin to activate your fibroblasts – the cells that produce collagen. The heat also causes your existing collagen to tighten up and contract. This means you’ll get to enjoy an instantly firmer look that will improve over time as your fresh, new collagen starts to grow. Still, as the effects of the treatments are cumulative, you’ll see the best results after three treatments spaced one month apart.
What’s great about both of these skin-firming treatments is that there’s literally no down time. You could also schedule one for your lunch break then head straight back to the office. There’s also nothing stopping you from reapplying your make-up afterwards, so nobody would ever be the wiser.
Any patient in their 30s would be a good candidate for a series of Titan or Exilis Elite treatments. While they can certainly help improve the look of sagging skin in our older patients, many younger ones use it to “put collagen in the bank” as a preventative measure.
Threading
Polydioxanone (PDO) threads are another brilliant way to lift skin that’s starting to show the effects of gravity. The procedure is performed by one of our highly-skilled doctors and involves injecting multiple PDO threads below the surface of the skin. (Don’t worry! A topical anaesthetic is applied beforehand so you won’t feel a thing!)
The threads are placed very strategically and, once placed, act as a scaffold to tightening loose and sagging skin. They also have a long-term benefit because, wherever they’re placed, they stimulate the growth of new collagen and elastin. They’re a great solution to a sagging jawline, jowls, a drooping brow or “heavy-looking” nasolabial folds.
Visit a Skin Renewal branch in Cape Town
If you’d like to tighten up loose skin, make an appointment to see one of our Skin Renewal doctors at either our Cape Quarter, Constantia, Claremont or Willowbridge branches. They’ll be able to to assess your skin’s condition and suggest the best treatments to help you firm up fast!