First and foremost: Use sunscreen, all year around. "Don't Leave Home Without It!"
There are some new, very strong, very effective sunscreens that last for 8 hours after one application and they are inexpensive.
As to the IPL and the profractional:
- Both can help with treatment of pigmentation and redness.
- Also with building of new collagen, and therefore, treatment of wrinkles.
- First and foremost: Use sunscreeen all year around.
- Both IPL and Profractional can help woyh pigmentation, redness and rebuilding of collagen.
- Each has a different mode of action.
The IPL warms up the Dermis and stimulates new collagen formation, thus reducing the wrinkles and some of the diffuse redness.
It also warms the epidermo-dermal junction and thus clears some pigmentation.
It damages some capillaries and thos clears some of the red patches.
All of the above actions are performed also by the Profractional, by creating thousands of micro burn wounds in the epidermis and superficial dermis.
On the neck, the profractional can clear up some resistant red patches ("Red Neck") which the IPL may not be able to clear.
I hope this helps.
