Acne Blue Light Therapy for Clear Skin

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Skin care science has been growing by leaps and bounds, and various devices or processes have been developed to treat skin ailments, including acne, in as little time and with as few side effects as possible. One of these technologies is acne blue light therapy. The use of light for healing purposes is called phototherapy, and in this case, neither ultraviolet light nor radiation is used to treat acne, because both of them have been found to have adverse health effects. Acne blue light therapy is noninvasive, safe and has virtually no side effects.

This type of phototherapy, or chromotherapy (since it uses colored light) has received approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in treating acne and other skin disorders. It is meant to be used over a certain period of time before results are seen. A typical treatment regimen is a 15-30 minute session every day for eight to twelve weeks. This is most convenient for most teenagers and adults, since no surgery or hospitalization is necessary. Moreover, with acne blue light therapy, you don't have to worry about forgetting to take medication or bother with applying messy creams or ointments.

How does this type of phototherapy cure acne? It seems that blue light or a combination of blue and red light is able to help kill P. acnes, the bacteria that cause acne. When light of a certain wavelength hits porphyrins, molecules that are secreted by the bacteria, they produce substances such as free radicals that annihilate the bacteria. Without P. acnes to cause further inflammation, pimples will not proliferate and die out.

A number of companies have started offering their own acne blue light therapy equipment after the FDA approved the technology: Sci/ART, Dima-Tech and Omnilux are three such companies offering this type of phototherapy. Treatment prices range from as low as $42 to $800. In addition, this technology is purported to have other healing and skin rejuvenation effects as well. The light is said to reduce wrinkles and other skin imperfections.

This phototherapy process has received accolades from dermatologists and other medical experts. However, they do caution that more time is needed to observe its long-term effects. Whatever the case, acne blue light therapy is a major breakthrough that heralds great promise for the 80 percent or so of the world population that suffer from the distressing problem of acne.