How to Smooth Deep Scarring at Home with Peels

And when we talk about scars, there are a lot of different kinds of scars, and people are like, well, can I treat this scar? That's 25 years old from surgery. Yes, you can.

Yes.

Can I treat my acne scars, I have the deep holes? Yes, those are all scars, and the only thing that I tell people is that I have, like, one lady in the group, and she got a lot of scarring there. She was in an accident, okay, and I know she wanted to just tackle and do these peels right off the bat and I'm like you need to allow your skin time to heal.

Yes.

I mean like, it could take six to eight months for your skin to heal. Those scars can actually improve a little bit on their own. Lighten up like give it time to be a hundred percent healed before you're doing peels chemical peels.

Chemical peels for scarring.

Yes.

Let's break it down. It can be overwhelming. Scars take a long time to form. And they're gonna take a little bit of time to repair.

Yeah

They can be dramatically improved and sometimes even removed, right? It just depends on what it is. When we talk about scars, there are a lot of different kinds of scars, and people are like, well, can I treat this scar? That's 25 years old from surgery. Yes, you can.

Yes.

Can I treat my acne scars? I have the deep holes. Yes, those are all scars, and the only thing that I tell people is that I have, like, one lady in the group, and she got a lot of scarring now. She was in an accident, okay, and I know she wanted to just tackle and do these peels right off the bat. I'm like, you need to allow your skin time to heal.

Yes

I mean, like, it could take six to eight months for your skin to heal. Those scars can actually improve a little bit on their own. Lighten up, like, give it time to be a hundred percent healed before you're doing peels.

Yeah

That's my only thing. So, like, a very fresh scar, I almost want to give it a little time.

Yeah.

I don't want you to jump on it with a TCA 30 peel right now.

Yes.

I feel like that skin was already injured. Let's let it heal

True.

For like at least six months

Even though it looks healed and sealed, there's still lots of things

So much is going on, and it's gonna fade on its own a little bit. So I usually tell people, like, what we have here is maybe like a second step after your peels is using the copper peptides.

Right.

Use your copper peptides now, use Emu oil, use PDRN, and yes, use those healing things, epidermal growth factor. Use those kinds of things to heal your skin and get it, because they can improve scars, too. Which is why we have them here and why we want you to use them when you're targeting your scars

Got it

For the most part, though, I feel like if you have all of our scars, like obviously mostly we're looking at the face, but this is the same with the body.

Yes

Like on the face, maybe somebody had acne, and they might have, you know, a couple of little shallow scars and a couple of deep ice pick scars, and maybe they have a whole bunch of those, and maybe it's too much to do a single treatment at a time.

Yes

You know, because we have, like, our cross method, right, where we take one of these toothpicks, you take the cotton off, make a real sharp pick, soak it in your strongest TCA 30 generally then you poke it into the scar. So we're getting the acid deep in the scar, and that helps to rejuvenate new skin

because you're breaking down that scar tissue. Technically, yeah, with that acid. That's the goal.

Yeah, we're breaking it down. We're stimulating new tissue

Got it.

It might not be easy if you've got 35 scars on your face. Sure, it did it all over, like that's kind of a pain, right?

So you don't have to do the cross.

Yeah

You can just use either the TCA 13 or the TCA 20, whatever you want to do, and do it all over, because there is liquid; the liquid's gonna fill into the holes.

Yeah

Pretty well, at least on the surface

Sure

And it's gonna get in there, and it's gonna target those. So if you have a whole face full of, which I have seen and had people ask, which is why I'm wanting to answer this

Yeah

You can do all over, or you know, target your most bothersome ones. With the cross, do that first and then wait your five minutes and then go all over the face again with a milder TCA like the 13 or the 7, because TCA cross is really focused, or we're just getting it into that one scar, but you know if you have a lot.

Yes. I have made a similar recommendation to many clients who have a lot going on, and I feel like sometimes they're gonna see a better result if they do a couple of all-over face peels first.

Yeah

To kind of help even the skin tone out, help even some things out. It will motivate them when they see some result. Because sometimes when you do the cross, it can look a little worse before it looks better.

Yep,

Because that's a strong breakdown of that scar tissue, so when it does look worse, you know, it's an amazing, great Celebration time.

Yeah, when it's red and inflamed and, looking at it, it's irritated, it's a good thing because we have actually caused the trauma that we're trying to cause, and we're forcing.

Yes

Yeah, renewal- that's all new collagen is gonna go up, and that scar that's, you know, down here like this. Collagen is gonna build in there, and then all of a sudden it's shallower.

And then it's gonna keep building up. It's shallower and shallower and shallower and shallower until, a lot of times, it just fills in. I've had about three of them on my face that I worked on. Firstly, before I even knew what the cross method was, I was just doing normal TCA peels. I noticed things changing, and then I learned about the cross method, which I did not invent. We started teaching people how to do that, and then I did the cross on it. Like, I can't even find them unless I'm, like, really looking in the mirror, where something was like a deep, endless black hole that was- who knows how deep it was, you know. Maybe it wasn't an inch deep. I don't know. But I couldn't even see the end, and now I can't even find that beginning. So, I mean, that's just testament right there.

Absolutely.

This works. I mean, this is an amazing method. And you know what we normally recommend for most people is the TCA 30, but I do want to state that, and we always want everybody to use a melanin inhibitor to protect from it…

Of course.

to prep your skin. For at least 30 days. But if you have darker skin, like Fitzpatrick four, five, or six, You're prone to hyperpigmentation, or, let's say, if you get a pimple and it turns brown, then you definitely… Prepping is very important because when we put a stronger acid on your skin, it could inflame it and turn it darker. So sometimes with people that have darker skin, we might recommend a little milder. Then 30, maybe the 20, or even with some that are really prominent, maybe the 13, as I said, doesn't even have to be the cross, but this is a very specific method for those Indented scars.

Yes

Called an atrophic scar, but start with 30, and you don't even need this big bottle. I generally suggest that they buy a single 5 ml bottle because all we're doing is dipping that in there. We're taking it, like, tap it off on the side. I mean, you're not using a drop when you're doing this; you don't need a big bottle like this

. And that's the goal: make sure that you're using the toothpick, make sure that you're using a cotton-tipped pick. Make sure that you're not, like, using a Q-tip

No q-tip

And yes, because that's when you can get, like, a polka-dot effect where the goal is to only get the acid on the interior walls inside of that scar.

And sometimes, even if you do, when you're poking this inside, you could still get a little frosted rim around the edge. That's okay, but that can turn dark. That's normal. That's part of the process. So yeah, if you have bigger, bigger holes, like think of, like, a chickenpox scar or something like that. Like those are generally like the size of an eraser

Yes

You know, you might want to keep the cotton on because you're gonna get better coverage, and you could still poke through that cotton because part of doing the cross is Poking we're not trying to draw blood, but we're poking. It's almost like a combination of needling and doing chemical peels, but we're not drawing any blood very little pinch, a couple of you just getting it. I like to roll it a little bit; my finger just gets it down there, gets the acid in that hole really well.

Yeah

And you know, that's actually a really good segue because Chemical peels are excellent for scars any kind of scars but needling is too

. Very good

So we do have our alchemy, and I just want to make a couple of, you know, suggestions as to what you could needle into your skin, even like a larger scarred area, any scars. Any kind of scars; it doesn't have to be just an acne scar. It can be a surgical scar anywhere on your body. You can needle, and you can do the peels. If you're going to needle, I suggest PDRN is Excellent for scars, and as we've discussed, copper is excellent for scars. So there's PDRN and copper. Yeah, in our EXO PDRN serum, you can needle directly into your skin. I also find that the EXO AD, which is our human adipose exosomes.

Yes

which are like the sergeants that are telling Everybody in your skin what to do: rebuild, regenerate. So helpful for targeting scars. Like, if I was needling, I would be mixing the PDRN and the AD, right?

Keep in mind the AD is up for free strike

This is a powder

So you're gonna mix the powder; mix it with the PDRN

and then needle it all in

And then you'll needle it in

Yeah, and most of the time I just tell people Just get the refill kit; you get a tool, and you get six needles.

There you go

And then you just buy these singly

Sure

Could you do normal needling, like with the EXO EHR suite there? You could, but I find if you're really targeting scarring, the PDRN and the exosomes are super.

Yeah

And like I said, you know, the copper is super, so you definitely want to be using something if you're doing the cross. I like to let the cross heal for a good 10 days before I start using something like Super Cop 2x here because this can be irritating on its own, but once that cross is past those 10 days, Everything's healed. The redness is gone. I like to take just the tiniest little bit of this and, like, pat it on there, fill in that hole, and then wipe it off. You'll have, like, a little blue glob, you know, and you will know that it's in there. You'll wash it off in the morning. If you want to get overall coverage, use one of the serums. They're a little easier to work with. There's a CP Serum or the Super CP Serum or even the GHK 7% if you want to make it into another product. I think those are the very best, but TCA is clearly the best choice for scars if you have, let's call them, not scars, but PIH marks, like you had acne. You have some marks; people say, " Oh, I have scars, but they're not scars, right? It's not scar tissue; it's just discoloration.

If you have just discoloration, you could probably use a milder acid. Only mandelic or glycolic or something like that. But if you have true scars, TCA is the way to go. I honestly can't think of another acid I would try to steer you to if you have scars one

Little disclaimer: never, ever, ever needle in an acid

Yes

a little just…

Never, and that's actually on the box

Yes, the two are never different modalities

Do not do appeal and then needle; do not needle and then do appeal. Those are no.

Right

You want to alternate them. You can do that. You can do needling at least with ours; like, ours is the 0.5 depth. You can needle once every two weeks with the TCA peel; that'll work well. If you did the cross, that's once every five weeks.

Yes

If you're just doing TCA peel, it's about once every four weeks. So you got to kind of work that in if you want to do a couple of needling sessions. Maybe you do two sessions, wait two weeks to do a peel.

Yeah

You gotta wait four or five weeks before you can do needling again, so kind of just make sure you're alternating and not trying to do them all the same, because irritating the crap out of your scar is not going to make it heal nicely. We're working on it, and then we have to let it heal and regenerate and allow that process. No less than, you know, two weeks if you're doing needling; no less than four or five weeks with the cross

Got it.

I think if you follow those rules, you'll be fine. Take your photos as always; prep as always. I think you're gonna have really surprisingly good results.

Yes.

Yeah, and if you like, take a minute to pop over into our Facebook group, which is Platinum Skincare Gurus, you will see a lot

Oh, yeah

of scar treatment photos

Everything from acne scars to surgical scars, too, like you said, chickenpox scars

. People are excited to share their results. So that's a great place to go and look at scar photos.

Yes, it will definitely motivate you.

Oh, yes.

Yeah.

Oh, yes

It's a good thing.

Yep. Well, other than that, if you have questions, you can reach out to us at 1-800-917-3155

Or email support@platinumskincare.com.

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I think that's it.

That's it. We'll see you in…

Stay the course and be consistent.

Yep