Blue light therapy is an fda approved non invasive phototherapy treatment for acne.
Red light blue light acne.
Typically a combination is used.
A team of researchers reviewed all the evidence to date on light based therapies for acne and published their conclusions in the british journal of dermatology in 2018.
Blue light is a shorter wavelength that destroys acne causing bacteria on the skin s surface while red light penetrates deeper to help with inflammation but hooman khorasani the chief of the.
Light in the blue wavelength is used to kill acne causing bacteria.
You will need several sessions and may need to protect your skin from sunlight and some.
Light therapy for acne uses red and blue light to help heal your skin and prevent further outbreaks.
Blue light helps kill acne bacteria calms irritation that can come with acne and balances sebum production without drying the skin.
Studies suggest that it can improve but.
A complete acne care system is.
Red blue or a combination of red and blue light can be used to treat acne.
Red light therapy can help shrink the sebaceous glands that produce the oil that clogs pores.
Three blue light treatments kill about 99 99 of acne bacteria that the light reaches although some acne bacteria live deep in pores.