Can Home IPL Hair Removal Devices Stimulate Hair Growth Instead?

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I'm planning to buy one of those home IPL for hair removal since I've had professional laser a year ago and I still have more growing. Can I use home IPL even if their energy equals 6 or 7 joules only? Would that stimulate fine hair to grow instead?

Grant Stevens, MD · Answer

This is not possible, home IPL machines will not decrease or stop hair growth.  You should got to an experienced and well qualified office for Laser Hair Removal treatment.

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	Dr. Grant Stevens      Marina Plastic Surgery Associates      Marina del Rey, CA          The Institute

F. Victor Rueckl, MD (in memoriam) · Answer

IPL can't stimulate hair growth, but the homecare devices, in my opinion, aren't worth a penny. Their energies are too low, which means many people overuse them and burn themselves, causing scarring. Additionally, the limitations on the settings just don't target deep enough to have an effect. Medical hair removal machines have settings that go up to 50 joules! Maybe you'll get a hair or two to go away with a homecare unit, but not much else. Remember that with hair removal, it matters what type of machine was used, the settings used on the machine, and the timeframe of the treatments. Different body parts have different growing cycles, so if you don't do the treatments within correct timeframes, you end up overtreating the same hairs and undertreating others. Additionally, the best you can expect with hair removal is 70% permanently removed, and the rest lighter and more fine. And finally, all hair removal needs maintenance at least yearly. Over your lifetime you will have new follicles develop and since only active follicles can be treated, you'll need maintenance treatments every so often to address new hairs. The long and short, don't waste your money on a homecare unit - go in for maintenance to a respectable office.

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