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HO W MAN Y TRE A TMENT S ARE R EQUI RED?
Everyone's hair grows differently, depending on age, weight, metabolism, hormones, ethnicity,
medications and other factors. However, all hair goes through three distinct growth phases:
Active Growth phase (called the anagen phase), Degradation phase (catagen phase),
during which the hair stops growing but is not yet shed, and the Resting phase (telogen phase),
when a hair falls out and a new hair begins to form.
IPL treatment is effective when the hair is in the active growth phase. At any one time there is only a
percentage of hairs in the Active Growth phase (the actual percentage varies from one body area to
another). Some follicles are destroyed, others may be reduced to producing only vellus hairs (light
fine hairs) and some are disabled helping prevent hair regrowth.
To catch all hairs in the Active growth phase several treatments are required over many months (a
minimum of six over six months). Thereafter a quick treatment every 4 to 6 weeks is undertaken to
ensure disabled hairs remain dormant and to maintain permanently hair free skin.
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