{"id":221,"date":"2014-10-03T00:12:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T04:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.claritelaser.ca\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2014-10-03T00:12:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T04:12:36","slug":"chemical-peels-and-acne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claritelaser.ca\/blog\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Peels and Acne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do the words &#8220;chemical peel&#8221; bring to mind images from a sitcom where one of the\u00a0ladies has pieces of skin falling off?\u00a0 or a snake shedding its skin?<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of misunderstanding about &#8220;peels&#8221;.\u00a0 Done in a doctors office, a peel can give beautiful results &#8211; glowing, smooth and radiant skin.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Often there is no peeling!\u00a0They can be used to help pigmentation (dark spots), acne, acne scars and smoothen out rough skin.<\/p>\n<p>There are several products and strengths.\u00a0 The most popular are glycolic, salicylic and trichloracetic acid.\u00a0 The depth of the peel also can be controlled, ranging from very superficial to deeper peels.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Darker skinned individuals may also receive treatments, but only certain regimes are safe.\u00a0 In most cases it is important to have a skin regime to help maintain the health of the skin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do the words &#8220;chemical peel&#8221; bring to mind images from a sitcom where one of the\u00a0ladies has pieces of skin falling off?\u00a0 or a snake shedding its skin? There is a lot of misunderstanding about &#8220;peels&#8221;.\u00a0 Done in a doctors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claritelaser.ca\/blog\/?p=221\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,53,15,7],"tags":[11,88,27,106,107,22,28,84,145,50,149,104,147,146,148],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acne","category-brown-spots-2","category-scar","category-skin-care","tag-acne-2","tag-acne-dark-skin","tag-acne-scar","tag-acne-scar-barrhaven","tag-acne-scar-manotick","tag-brown-spots","tag-chemical-peel","tag-hyperpigmentaion","tag-hyperpigmentation-manotick","tag-hyperpigmentation-ottawa","tag-lactic-acid-peel","tag-manotick-acne","tag-salicylic-acid-peel","tag-smooth-skin","tag-trichloracetic-acid-peel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claritelaser.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claritelaser.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claritelaser.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claritelaser.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claritelaser.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.claritelaser.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/www.claritelaser.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claritelaser.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claritelaser.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claritelaser.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}