How to Treat Scars With Chemicals Peels & Every Day Regimens

How old can that scar be? What if that scar is 1-year-old, or six months old, or 15 years old? It doesn't matter. Your skin is there. Your skin can be treated. That's your topmost skin. You can work on that. Wow. So it doesn't matter if you've had that skin for 25 years. 

All right. Let's talk scars. I know there are many different types of scars. There are scars on your face, your body, but let's talk scars in general. What are the various types of scars that people are dealing with? 

Sure. Number one, I would think that one of the most common scars is an atrophic scar. 

And that means basically that there is a divot missing, there's a hole, and then we have a hypertrophic scar. And that is when it's a raised scar; there are two kinds of raised scars. There are hypertrophic and keloid scars. Hypertrophic. Like, if you were to get a wound and it heals, it's always going to at least stay exactly where that wound was. It might be raised, but it's going to stay there. The difference between a hypertrophic and a keloid is that, where the wound is, the keloid expands. So, it goes past where the original wound is. So when you have things like a keloid scar, we have to be very, very careful with how we treat that. 

There's also a rolling scar where there are more uneven levels to the skin. Surgical scars. Surgical scars, for sure, were generally a nice, smooth scar, but that can be addressed. That’s chickenpox scars. That would probably be, you never know, because chickenpox is generally that's an atrophic scar, like a shallow, that is depression. The collagen around there is destroyed, and you’re left with this flat hole. So we need to plump that up with more collagen and fill that in. So, how do we do that? What can we do? So if we have an atrophic scar, which you'll see some on people's faces, whereas we mentioned a chickenpox or a pimple. So what we want to do is we need to, this is a method called the TCA cross, and it's a combination of basically needling and using a very strong acid to help stimulate new growth under the skin. And what we need to do, where the needling comes in, is we're going to soak this in some TCA 30 predominantly, and then we're going to poke it into the scar. So we're poking hard, kind of like a needling session, but we're not drawing blood. We're just poking it into there. The acid rough up that scar tissue on it. Yeah. We're trying to break it down a little bit while we're poking in it. If it's a tiny hole, you might poke one time.

Sure. 

If it's a larger hole or a box scar, which is just a couple of atrophic scars next to each other, takes up bigger space, or a chicken mark, which can be up to the size of an eraser. So you're just going to poke around for more time. So we're combining that needling with the acid that's penetrating. It's going to turn nice and white, and that's called a frost or a blanching of the skim. And then over the next few days or so, we'll get a little scab in there, and it's just a flesh colored scab because we're not drawing blood or doing anything like that. And that will help to fill in the tissues. It's going to help stimulate new collagen, which is going to help press up that bottom layer. And as we've needed it in, we're also breaking down all those fibers that are, well, they're basically pulling your upper level of skin down. 

You have to think about, let's think about a pimple for a minute. If you have a pimple, everybody sees that rounded mark on the top. Well, there's just as much of a rounded marker on the bottom. It's a circle or a sphere versus just a little half-round. It's just as follows below. And that inflammation, a lot of times, can damage the collagen. So when that heals, it just heals, and it pulls it really tight, and you're just left with that hole. So we have to fill that in. Again, we've got to break down those fibers that are pulling that skin down and stimulate new collagen. And it's not going to be a one-time thing. It's going to take, it could be four or five times. You have to do this. You can do it once every five weeks. And that is super, super beneficial for filling in those atrophic ones. Now, I recommend a couple of things. 

If I were working on a scar, and I have done this before, I've had a few of them on my face, think about three or four of 'em, I would do the TCA cross, and then I would also use the Super Cop 2X because this is a great product. This helps to stimulate new tissue growth. It's a skin remodeling product. So this not only helps to flush out those damaged scar tissues that we're trying to get rid of, but it also stimulates your body to make new tissues. So that works hand in hand. So I like to always recommend people use scar products like copper. And if this is too strong for you, there are lesser versions. There's like CP serum, super CP serum, there's even the GHK, which is quite a bit milder, and then supra cop is the strongest. So that's a great way to fill in that scar. Now, if you have a hypertrophic scar and a normal hypertrophic scar, you can also treat that with a peel. You could use one of the TCA peels. We like to generally use a higher percentage, maybe like a 30 if you can. That's really good. Your skin is lighter. Correct. So if you're a Fitzpatrick one to three, we can use these more substantial percentages. If you have darker skin like Fitzpatrick four through six, then we need to maybe take it a step down, maybe use the 13 or the 20. 

And then that's when pre-treating comes into play with the fade bright. 

Exactly. You'll always want to pretreat. Suppose you're using a super strong product like that. In that case, you must pretreat your skin with a melanin inhibitor like our fade, BRI hydroquinone, things like that, because we don't want to take that scar and then end up having post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation on top of it. PIH. 

Absolutely. 

So TCA excellent option, and you can, so we're talking about a normal hypertrophic scar. I mean, you could just take a Q-tip, get it wet, run it along the scar, do that once a month, once every five weeks or so, and that will help in the same way as the other one was helping to stimulate new tissues. And I would also recommend the copper. Again, just help that come in normally. Now, if you are dealing with the keloid scar where we talked, where it expands past that wound, I would not want to be aggressive at all. It doesn't mean that you couldn't do like a serum 30. Right. But a chemical peel could, chemical peels could make it worse. It could make it worse. Your skin responds incorrectly. The state of a wound, instead of just healing, closing, decides to continue growing tissue.

Keep trying, keep trying. Yep. 

Yeah, so we don't want that. Right. So generally, I don't recommend peels. Is it possible, maybe, possibly a very, very mild peel, maybe a glycolic something 50 or 70, maybe a very mild TCA seven. But that's case by case for sure. 

You don't ever want to make that scar worse. Absolutely. I would mostly focus on using the Super Cop 2X. 

Yeah, that'd be a great choice. Yeah. 

This and serum 30 would be a good one. 

Yes, absolutely. And the goal is when they are treating these scars, not keloids of course, but surgical scars and other types is the goal is just to get the acid on the actual scar, not on that surrounding skin. What you're focusing on is breaking down that scar tissue. 

Exactly. And if your skin is really sensitive and it's on your hand, you could use some Aquaphor or some Vaseline, and you could just put it on the other areas that you're trying to protect. 

Yeah, that's a great idea. 

And then use your Q-tip, and you can get it just right where you want it without touching it or harming anything else. But yeah, the goal is to break it down and get rid of it. So don't panic if you see frosting, 

Right? 

I mean, that's okay. That's good. We want to break it down. 

Absolutely perfect. And consistency is key. Of course. It takes a long time for these scars to form, so definitely consistency. 

Well, and that brings up too well, how old can that scar be? 

You have, you think, okay, yeah, consistency, we're going to keep doing this. We may have to do it seven times before it looks as good as you want it to be. But what if that scar is 1 year old or six months old, or what if it's 15 years old? It doesn't matter, right? Your skin is there. Your skin can be treated. That's your topmost skin. You can work on that. So it doesn't matter if you've had that skin for 25 years; that's that scar. Yeah, that's good news, right? If you've had that scar for 25 years, you can still work on it, and you can still improve it. Take a photo on day one, 

Definitely. 

And then track your progress as you're going, so you can see the improvements as you go. And that will certainly give you motivation to continue those monthly peels. When they're working on indentation scars, the scar can appear to be a little bigger or wider at first. And that's when I get the emails or phone calls, and panic. And that's actually a very, very good sign because that scar tissue is breaking down, and then that's when the super cop two X kind of kicks in and helps regenerate.

Yeah. Yeah. When you're working on the scar, and let's say you're at that next day or two, and it's irritated and red, and you're like, oh my gosh, it looks like a thousand times worse than it did. You can do other things, like epidermal growth factors. You can think of this as your epidermis, and we're trying to grow more tissues than your epidermis. So this is perfect. You can put this on. It's calming, soothing, it's healing, and it will help that to grow in as well. And I don't think I ever mentioned this, but this would be a super product to put on. Absolutely. And you're going to work into the copper, but immediately, if you just did a cross, you don't want to put copper two x on. That would be just super irritating. Once the scab is gone, you can start using the other products. But regenerate can be used to heal that immediately when you're in that panic state. But you have to think, the goal of this, we're forcing your skin to regenerate itself. Well, it's not going to regenerate itself aggressively like that. If it's fine and perfect, it's been fine and perfect for years and years, and there's that scar, we want to get rid of it. So we have to irritate our skin to try to remove it physically. But it can be done. And I don't want to say that every scar can be removed because that's not even the goal, is just to make 'em look better for sure. And I've done it on multiple scars on myself, and you reach a point where you're like, it's just so small and insignificant, or so faded that you're just like, you just forget about it. I don't even care anymore. That's amazing. That's great. That's good news. Because I feel like sometimes when you're dealing with scars and you just think, oh, that's it, it's a scar. I can't do anything. But you can, and this is amazing. 

You absolutely can do something about it. 

Well, perfect. And if you need any more information, you can always email us or phone us. Go to the Platinum Skincare guru page for advice. 

Suppose you want to walk through the TCA cross. We have videos on that.

Yes, absolutely. Perfect. 

Good deal. 

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