How laser hair removal works

If you suffer from excessive hair growth, laser hair removal is a good solution for you. But how does laser hair removal actually work? We work with the LightSheer Diode laser, we use both the ET with small head and the latest innovative DUET laser with much larger head. The DUET reduces the required treatment time with 75% compared to other hair removal equipment. You will be treated with the latest and safest method for removing excess hair growth in a comfortable way. This is a cosmetic treatment that permanently removes the hair.

How does it work?

A hair grows in three stages of growth:

1. Active growing phase (anagen phase): The hair root contains pigment or melanin.
2. Transitioning phase (catagen phase): The hair stops growing and contains little pigment, duration about 2 weeks.
3. Rest phase (telogen phase): After about 6 weeks, the hair falls out and a new growth process begins.

The laser beam uses the dark pigment (melanin) in your hair as a guide to penetrate the hair follicle from which the hair grows. Lasers can only reach hairs in the active growth phase because only these contain sufficient pigment. Every 6 weeks, a limited portion of the hair is in the active growth phase (around 15%). The hair follicle is then permanently destroyed by the laser beam. Those hairs can’t grow back. The other, inactive hairs have too little pigment and cannot be reached at that time. They remain intact. With each treatment, this process of selective destruction repeats itself, after which eventually the entire treated surface is de-haired. Because blonde, grey and ruddy hair sits without pigment, unfortunately these cannot be treated.

Waarom de LightSheer Duet en geen IPL flitslamp?

One of the frequently asked questions is why we choose the LightSheer Duet and not for the IPL flashing method. At Solution Clinic we only work with the highly effective LightSheer Duet for laser hair removal and emphatically not with an IPL flash bulb.

The purchase of an IPL flash bulb is much cheaper, but a treatment with an IPL flash bulb does not give a permanent result. Treatment with IPL often seems more beneficial at first, but in practice many more treatments are needed than is usually indicated. More importantly, it does not offer a permanent solution to get rid of your unwanted hair growth forever.

De LightSheer Duet

• A permanent solution achieved by the destruction of the hair follicle and root.
• A focused energy beam that effectively reaches all deeper hair roots as well.
• precisely adjusted wavelength to your body type, in order to penetrate deeply with precision.
• Destroys the hair follicle, after which regrowth is permanently not possible.
• Suited for most skin types.

De IPL flitslamp

• A temporary solution achieved by paralyzing the hair root.
• A flash light system where the light scatters, just like with a regular lamp, in various directions.
• The flash of light is not synchronized, so it’s not focused with precision.
• Temporarily paralyzes the hair root, which often regains strength after a few months.
• Does not penetrate to the deeper hair roots, which can result in localized regrowth of different hairs later on.
• Requires more treatments (often twice as many) for a temporary result.