What Should I Expect After a Jessner's Peel?

Jessner's solution is a great little peel made up of 3 fruit acids. It is easy to apply to every skin type and causes a slight flakiness on day 4-7. Makeup and moisturizers camaflage it easily so you can go to work right away with no downtime. Since it is light, it doesn't do much by itself unless you do 5-6 peels at 2 week intervals. sincerely, David Hansen,MD

Jessner peel is a superficial chemical peel that should not involve more than 3-4 days of pinkness and peeling. Pretreatment with bleaching cream or prescription strength retinoid cream can be helpful but not necessary. It is sometimes combined with TCA chemical peel to make TCA chemical peel more potent.

Jessner's peels are generally "low-to-no downtime" peels.  The peeling usually begins 1-3 days after the procedure.  Generally, there is significant peeling.  I tell my patients they may peel very little or they might peel like a snake--but this is brief!  Most of the peeling takes place during the first 24 hours after the peel begins.  To give  you an idea, I usually recommend the procedure on a Thursday.  The peeling starts over the weekend and most of it is resolved by Monday.