How does IPL hair removal work?

IPL hair removal - how does it work? What makes it different from other hair removal methods?

1 answer to “How does IPL hair removal work?”

A: It's all about physics

Don Mehrabi, MD

Thank you for your question. I'm going to answer this in simple terms so hopefully no one reading this will get confused. The targets of our laser treatments (the melanin of the hair bulb, the hemoglobin of blood cells, the water in our skin layers) absorb energy at certain wavelengths of light. When the... more

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