Pain Free Hair Removal – You’re having a Laugh
Most of us can remember several comedy moments in films associated with hair removal. Usually waxing as the tape is ripped off. – Ouch!
Laser hair removal was a major step forward and has typically been likened to an elastic band pinged against the skin – nice!
Then there was Super Hair Removal (SHR), which was introduced to overcome the inadequacies of IPL and the early diode lasers. SHR is arguably an improvement but could only be described as pain free when removing darker hair. Lighter hair needs more power and since these earlier machines lacked sufficient power to deliver the required energy fast enough. The result was longer pulses or in the case of SHR many more pulses. Both of these have the effect of heating the skin more and once the epidermis (top layer of skin) heats above 44C most people start to feel pain.
Our Saviour the Quantum 2
Cosmex Clinic are not in the business of causing gratuitous pain to our patients. As far as is possible we want our treatments to be comfortable which is why we invested in the Quantum 2. The Quantum 2 is a latest generation diode hair removal laser and is 550% more powerful than the previous generation.
More power does not in this case mean more pain, in fact, quite the reverse.
As stated above the early lasers lacked power and in order to get the heat into the hair they had to keep pouring the heat in. Analogous to filling a bucket with a hole in it. The water flowing out of the hole is equivalent to the heat flowing from the hair into the skin. If enough flows into the skin to heat it above 44C = pain.
The Quantum 2 pours the heat (water) in 5.5 times faster so that the bucket fills (equivalent to getting the hair follicle to a therapeutic temperature to damage it). When full the Quantum 2 stops putting in more heat. Since there has been much less time for the energy to to escape and be wasted the Quantum 2 typically only delivers about half of the energy (heat) and the treatment is much more comfortable.
Goodbye SHR
SHR was always an unsatisfactory work around but now with the power of the Quantum 2 we can glide. It takes a little more skill but all our therapists are trained and tested before we let them loose. The advantages to you the patient are:
- Faster Treatments
- More comfortable treatments
- We can treat lighter more blond hair
- We can treat grey hair (but not white or red)
- Despite the higher power we can still treat all skin types
- We can also treat tanned skin but not where there are active melanocytes (2 weeks before and two weeks after sun exposure.)
Powerful Contact Cooling
The Quantum 2 can treat all skin colours due to its very powerful refrigeration system and cooled sapphire tip that ensures excellent contact cooling.
Colour is not even skin Deep
All pigment is contained in the epidermis which extends to a depth of just 0.15mm. This is just 5% of the depth of the average hair.
Quantum 2’s excellent cooling and adaptable pulse shape, is the solution to treating all skin types.