Hand & Arm Peels: How to Rejuvenate Crepey Skin & Minimize Dark Spots

Our hands are out there all the time, and a lot of time, even with our face, we're so careful and we're putting our SPF on and wearing our hats. And what about your hands? Right, I mean on a normal day, I don't think to put SPF on my hands, I might put Emu Oil or hand cream, but for sure I don't. 

We are going to be talking about hand and arm peels and I know we do get a lot of questions about that because everybody's always treating their face, neck, chest, and it's something that you might, as you're aging, look down and notice that your hands are starting to get a little creepy and maybe a little less smooth as they used to be.

I think it's one of the first places that we really start to show some pigmentation issues sometimes happen in some spots. What can customers do, and what peels do you recommend in treatments for hand and arm peels? 

Yeah, I mean our hands are out there all the time, and a lot of time even with our face, we're so careful and we're putting our SPF on and wearing our hats. And what about your hands? Right, I mean on a normal day, I don't think to put SPF on my hands, I might put Emu Oil or hand cream, but for sure, I don't know. Luckily, maybe if I lived in Las Vegas or something, I might be more adamant with that, but I'm not, yeah, I have things I need to address as well. I always want to say when you're doing your face products and you have more, put it on your hands and your arms as far as you can get that to go. Don't just waste it or wipe it on your pants. Vitamin C, wipe it on your hands before you wipe them on your towel, wipe it on your hands.

So let's say you're just starting fresh, obviously, whether you want to do a peel or not, you have to prepare your skin. So there are a couple of things. Obviously, we want to thin any of those dead layers, and you can just do these two things alone. In all honesty, some people, if you're getting the dry crepiness, something like this is all you need. Use our 15% body wash with glycolic and lactic acid that will help to exfoliate the dead skin. And then you can use the triple treat body lotion. This is 25% acid, and this here, just make sure all that does skate comes off, and you can just rub this right on the top. I don't recommend caking it on the insides of your hand.

Yeah, the acids have a little, it's a treatment, not a lotion. More of a sticky peel. So yeah, you definitely want to wash your hands after, at least the palms of your hands. 

Yes, and I think these two are excellent for daily use and also for preparing to do a peel. 

For sure. So, for sure, obviously, fading bright would be another preparation, especially for clients with darker skin types. Crepiness, what can we use to help with the crepiness besides the triple? Triple? 

So it’s exfoliating number one. And then we have a great product, which is the copper, the GHK crepey skin escape, and that is really, really good. I highly suggest people, I mean I suggest using the copper at night, though you could totally use it during the day, but that has a lot of smoothing properties, and that is going to be super helpful. What I do recommend, though, is that if you're putting triple treat on, we can't use triple treat and GHK at the same time. 

Got it. 

So that's kind of like a little tip. Use GHK one day, use triple treat the next day. And since we only want to apply something like this once every other day or every two days, that works really well. So you can put this on alternate days, and then the next day, you can put the GHK crepey skin escape on. 

Perfect. 

I think that's a super, pretty much the number one thing I recommend to people. 

Absolutely. 

And I mean obviously other than that, peels of course. So if you're dealing with hyperpigmentation, obviously Jessner is key. This has your lactic, salicylic, and urinal very much. It helps to turn down the melanin production. It helps to get that pigmentation off. So if somebody was coming to me and they're like, well, my hands are looking old, but I really hate all these spots, I would say, okay, let's start with this is our number one for that.

Now, could they spot treat just the spots? Do you recommend, or what are your thoughts on that?

Well, could I mean if you just got a handful of spots, you could, but I sometimes feel like just do it all because dera is beneficial as well, it’s not like it's not going to do anything. So maybe put a couple of extra layers on those spots. That's what I would be like. Do one whole layer, and then maybe your second and third layer, just dab on, get a little Q-tip dab on those handful of spots. I think that would work really well. Perfect. And then if you're coming to me and it's mostly wrinkles or crepiness or just in general aging, then I would always reach for something like TCA. And that's where you kind of have to make a choice because if you are a little bit older, let's say you're sixties and on, your skin starts to thin. So, where I would tell somebody that's maybe in their forties or fifties, go ahead and use TCA 30. This is perfect. Generally, this is what you want. We want a little higher percentage for your body, but if you're dealing with really thin skin and it's crepey and you can see through it a little bit, I mean, you need to be much more gentle. So we need to go down to maybe a TCA 20 or TCA 13. So a lesser acid, lesser percentages, lesser percentages, and obviously the same thing goes for the darker the skin, too. So you have somebody that's got Fitzpatrick seven, which is only an olive colored Asian Mediterranean. 

They need to use a little gentler acid as well. And of course, they need to prep with things like fade bright, hydroquinone is an alternative because you don't want to put a super high percentage on and cause more pigmentation. So prepping is key. And there are other acids too. You could do the lactic peel if you want something really gentle, or glycolic 70, this is another option, and we have a video showing glycolic 70 versus TCA 30. I can say that I definitely got a better peel with the TCA 30 than with the glycolic 70, but if you don't want excessive amounts of dead skin coming off, then this might be exactly what you're looking for. 

Definitely stronger than this. Let's talk about layering. TCA is an asset that you layer, but now, when you're working on the body and you're using a high percentage, what are your thoughts on layering it? On layering, how many layers? If somebody was starting off, they have light skin, they're going to use the TCA 30 on their hands, what do you recommend? 

Yeah, TCA 30. Now, normally, TCA 1320, we can just keep layering these all day long. You don't have to stop at five layers. You could work your way up to eight, 10 layers. It doesn't matter. But when you've reached TCA 30, it is so strong that we do state that you can kind of work up. Now I expect somebody to have done a TCA 31 layer peel multiple times, like three times in a row with one layer, and your skin is handling this very well. Then, if you want to add an additional layer, you can try that. Never put more. And if you have thin skin, do not layer the TCA 30. Got it. I would rather see somebody go down to a TCA 20 if you want to put multiple layers on or if you want to mix assays, because sometimes you can do like a JSR and A TCA. That's another question that we go, well, can I layer the JSR with the TCA 30? I really don't like that. I really feel like that's too strong. I would say, let's dilute your 30 down to a 20, and let's do a JSR and then a TCA 20 instead. I just feel it's safer. 

What about a peel booster? We offer peel boosters for the face. 

What are your thoughts on peel booster for the body? 

Yeah, you can use luminosity, and that's fine. You can put that all over wherever you need, and you could use that for the first few days. Or people always want to use dream peel, and I think dream peel is perfectly fine if you're doing a smaller area, so you did your TCA or your Jessner, and you want to boost it and end with a little bit of vitamin A dream peel. I think if you're doing an area that's like your hands, your arm, both your hands and arms, that's fine coverage. What I don't want to see is I don't want to see this on full legs or full torso because it's just too much. Vitamin A and vitamin A and super large quantities on your body have not been studied enough to know that that's safe for you. 

So, you want to break it up. You definitely want to break it up. It's a small area, your hand and arm are fine. 

Got it.

But don't be putting it, slathering it on your full legs and torso, and that. I think that's too much. 

And until they come out, there are a couple of studies showing that or a few doctors feeling that, yeah, it's okay to put this on larger quantities, but for the most part, it's older information, and I don't want to tell somebody to do it. We have to just be careful. 

Let's talk about how long it takes for the body to peel and why we recommend body peels only once per month. 

Yeah. So yeah, when you're looking at your face, your face takes all three to five days to start. Three to five days to finish. You're done in six to 10 days, your face is done. Now, even just going down onto your neck, your neck and your décolleté, which is just mere inches away, you've already added time on. This is normally about 10 to 14 days, sometimes even longer. 

So now the further you get on your legs, your arms, that takes 30 days for sure to turn over. Sometimes even a little bit longer. I feel like it's normally about 10 to 14 days before you start to see, to see that dryness from that peel. You could have done that peel and forgotten about it. It's been so long. I mean, 10 days later, 12 days later, and you're like, why is my arm dry? Oh, I did that peel because it takes so long, and that's exactly why we can't do it more than once a month. People are like, well, nothing happened. Can I do it again? No, you’ve got to wait because it takes time. Once that starts peeling, it's going to continue peeling for a while. You could peel for a week. 

And think you're done, and then it might peel again. And then it might peel again. Yeah. There are a handful of people who, let's say, they'll do an arm peel, and I mean it might be five, six days later they're peeling, and I'm like, wow, that's so early. And they're like, oh no, I'm all done. I'm like, I don't think so. I don't think so. You're going to get more. I think it's going to be another wave of peeling, and that can happen. That top part just reacted quickly and came off, but it penetrated deeper, and now you're going to have more coming off.

So it's very important for them to wait that full month. You don't want to interrupt that recovery time post peel because that's when all the magic is happening beneath the skin and stimulating things, and all the good stuff. Oh yeah, for sure. 

Perfect, perfect. Let's talk moisturizing. 

After your pill, after your body peels.

Yeah. So we use this lotion obviously before we do our peel to prep, but this is not a great lotion to put on after; this is not going to help you. 

Peel is a strong acid treatment, and it's probably not the best choice for post-peel correct. 

I recommend two things. Mostly, I recommend either the Emu Oil or shea butter for the body, and I literally couldn't choose between them. They both work so well. I feel like Emu Oil is good and it lasts for a long time, but if you really need excessive heavy coverage, nothing beats this butter. And it's also a little bit anti-inflammatory healing. This is just pure shea butter. There's nothing else in here. And this is very healing and very good for your skin. I find that if you're getting dry and itchy, take your shower while your skin is still damp. That's when you’ve got to lock in any moisture that you have, which isn't going to be much after a peel, but a little bit of Emu Oil, a little bit of shea butter. 

Perfect. 

I think that works really, really well. 

Excellent. Healing oil. I see that sitting over there. That's probably a great option if they want to add a couple of drops in. 

This is because obviously this comes in as its smaller bottle, so if you were doing arms and hands and stuff. Yeah, absolutely. Or as you said, you could mix. I like to mix that. I do. I like to mix the Emu Oil in this, too. 

Me too. 

I mix both of these together every single time I do something. To be honest with you, I almost feel sometimes that the essential healing blend is a little bit less irritating, and Emu Oil is not irritating at all. But when I do a Vitamin A PL, if your skin is really sensitive, this is the best. Right? For sure. This is the best. This does not irritate at all. You could just drip this on a cut. Nothing, nothing. Just calming. 

Excellent. Anything else that I am missing here regarding the hand and arm peel? Sunscreen, of course, is obviously very important after the peel for weeks. I mean, probably a month after your body peel, you want to continue to apply SPF if you're out and about. 

Yep. But yeah, perfect. I could think of just a couple of things, and they're just not necessarily for peel, but just treatments in general. 

Sure. 

So things like copper skin remodeling, if you're aging and getting thin skin, are very beneficial. And if, as we age, it gets thinner, your tendons show more, and your hands look old. We have very, very thin fat on our hands, so we want to stimulate a little bit more. People will get fat injections and things to make their hands appear a little bit younger. So we have a new ingredient here, this Adipofill. And what Adipofill does is that when you apply it, it works with whatever adipose tissues you have, and it stimulates more adipose tissue. So if you have that on your hands where you're starting to see that fat layer getting really thin, and you can see through and see everything using something like this every day or adding it into your Emu Oil or whatever, when you put it on your hands, this can be very helpful. 

So just a couple drops. 

A couple of drops is all you need. And then for collagen, I'm just thinking of thickening, strengthening things for your hands. Syn-TC is another one. 

Excellent. 

And you can get a two potion combo of both of these for your hands. I would put this out first. Yeah, that'd be great. And then I would put a nice penetrator like Emu Oil on top. I think that would be a super…

And Emu Oil also has skin-thickening properties. It does a super heal or super moisturizer as well. I notice if my hands start to get a little crepey, you're feeling dehydrated, and such. Obviously, drinking water is very important, but I feel like the emu oil really does kick in right away and kind of helps smooth things out. 

It does. It's something that I reach for constantly.

Yeah, it's a great one. 

Yeah, so I mean, that's it. That was like peels, pretreating, aftercare, multiple things to choose from, and I think that's a well-rounded 

View. Be patient, let the skin naturally exfoliate. Don't pick, don't pull. 

Nope. 

Let it exfoliate on its own. 

Please don't pick.

Alright. All right, perfect. We will get them on their way with their hand and arm peels. Perfect.