Pairing the Right Products with Your Procedure Makes a Difference

When it comes to achieving the best results from your aesthetic procedures, what you do at home is just as important as what happens in the treatment room. The products you use before and after your procedure, as well as in your daily routine, are essential for supporting your skin's health, aiding recovery, and ensuring long-lasting results. 

Aesthetic procedures are designed to address specific concerns, such as pigmentation, scars, fine lines, laxity, acne, or redness. Using skincare products that support your treatment goals can optimize results and reduce downtime. 

Skincare That Supports Your Skin - Before, During, and After Your Procedure

Barrier Health

A healthy skin barrier allows your skin to better tolerate treatments and recover more smoothly. Colorescience products have been clinically studied to help prepare and protect, especially before and after a procedure. The Barrier Pro™ Collection Trio offers a comprehensive approach to a healthy barrier providing targeted support by promoting a balanced microbiome, boosting hydration, locking in moisture, and defending against environmental stressors. 

Barrier Pro 1-Step Cleanser removes makeup and mineral sunscreen in one step while supporting the skin's microbiome, promoting gentle exfoliation, and leaving skin soft, hydrated, and refreshed.

Barrier Pro™ Serum Spray strengthens the skin's barrier and microbiome, boosts radiance, resilience, and firmness, and supports the skin's ability to synthesize essential Vitamin D for overall skin health. Learn more about the benefits of our newest addition to the line here.

Barrier Pro™ Essential Moisturizer deeply hydrates while strengthening the skin's barrier, supporting microbiome balance, and improving texture for healthier, smoother, and more youthful-looking skin. 

Inflammation Control

Managing inflammation before a treatment is essential for achieving optimal results, as calm, balanced skin responds better to procedures and recovers more efficiently. By soothing reactivity and strengthening the skin in advance, you help minimize potential redness, sensitivity, inflammation, and discomfort that can occur post procedure, ultimately supporting a smoother recovery and longer-lasting results.

The All Calm® Sensitive Skin Regimen is specifically designed to restore comfort and resilience to easily irritated skin. With soothing and barrier supporting ingredients, it works to calm visible redness, reduce sensitivity, and strengthen skin health over time. This makes it an ideal regimen not only for pre- and post-procedure care, but also for daily use to keep inflammation under control. 

Pigmentation Regulation

If hyperpigmentation is a concern for you, regulating the pigmentation pathway before a procedure is essential to achieving the most even and radiant results. When left unaddressed, discoloration can become more noticeable after treatments, as procedures often stimulate the skin and may trigger additional pigment activity. By managing hyperpigmentation in advance, you help minimize the risk of post-inflammatory darkening and ensure your treatment appear brighter and clearer. Our Even Up® Hyperpigmentation Regimen works to even skin tone, brighten discoloration, and prevent further development, ideal for pre-and post-procedure and every day use. 

Targeting Eye Concerns

The delicate eye area often requires special attention because the skin there is thinner and more sensitive than the rest of the face, making it more prone to dryness, fine lines, puffiness, and dark circles. These issues can develop over time due to natural aging, loss of elasticity, fluid retention, and environmental stressors like sun exposure. Our Total Eye® Collection products address dark circles, puffiness, fine lines, and loss of firmness, supporting a refreshed and youthful look around the eyes. 

Preparing the eye area with the right products before a procedure helps keep the delicate eye area supported and balanced, making it better prepared for a treatment. Continued use post procedure helps soothe the skin as it recovers. Products with SPF, like our Total Eye® 3-in-1 Renewal Therapy SPF 35 will help to protect the results and the vulnerable skin. Once your eye area is healed from your treatment, our Total Eye® Hydrogel Treatment Masks are a great option to help cool, soothe and reduce puffiness. Formulated with ALDAVINE™ 5x, they also help address the appearance of dark circles.

With daily use, the right eye products help maintain a healthy, refreshed appearance over time, keeping the eye area looking its best. Our Total Eye® Firm & Repair Cream, powered by Five Powerhouse Ingredients, helps brighten, hydrate, firm, and smooth for a more vibrant, youthful-looking eye area.

Collagen & Elastin Support

Collagen and elastin are key proteins that maintain skin's firmness, elasticity, and smooth texture, but their natural production declines with age, leading to sagging, fine lines, and wrinkles. Our peptide-rich formula Pep Up® Collagen Boost Face & Neck Serum is designed to support this process, while a balanced diet, targeted support, and healthy lifestyle habits can further promote collagen from within. Learn more about how you can increase your collagen through diet, supplements, and topical skincare here. 

Using Pep Up® daily helps keep skin hydrated, restored, and rejuvenated. When used prior to a professional treatment, it helps strengthen the skin, making it resilient and better able to achieve optimal results. With continued use after treatment, its reparative support aids recovery with ingredients that help soothe, calm, and protect against environmental aggressors. Formulated with 10 potent peptides and powerful antioxidants, Pep Up® help support healthy collagen production to improve firmness, elasticity and long-term skin health. 

Sun Protection

The most important step, every day, is protecting your skin. Sun exposure accelerates skin aging, and can contribute to pigment changes, fine lines, wrinkles, age spots, and more.  Colorescience sunscreens don't just shield against UV rays, they also defend against pollution, blue light, and infrared radiation. Using sunscreen daily keeps the skin protected and better prepared for professional treatments. Post-procedure, your skin is even more sensitive to sun exposure, making protection even mort crucial to prevent pigment changes, reduce irritation and promote healing. You can find more information here about what makes our Total Protection® all-mineral sunscreens unique.

Caring for Your Skin Post-Procedure

When you decide to have a skin procedure done, whether it is an advanced facial, chemical peel, laser treatment, injection, or microneedling, it is important to remember that during and after these procedures, your skin can be more vulnerable. 

Here are four things you want to manage post-procedure:

Downtime

The skin barrier, the outermost layer of the skin, is crucial for retaining moisture and protects against environmental stressors. When it weakens, your skin becomes more susceptible to irritation, dehydration, and prolonged healing. After a procedure, your skin barrier can become temporarily more vulnerable. Using the right products before and after your treatment can help build up your skin barrier, making it stronger and more resilient. Learn more about the skin barrier here. 

Inflammation

Right after a procedure, it's common to experience redness, swelling, or irritation. This can feel frustrating and discouraging, especially when you're eager to see your results. That's why it's important to use calming and soothing products when your skin needs it the most, helping to reduce inflammation and restore balance. Your skin professional should explain what to expect, how to address post procedure redness and inflammation and what skincare products are appropriate to use after the treatment you have had.

Long-term Results

The goal of any procedure is lasting improvement, not just a temporary fix. Supporting your skin's natural healing processes with the right skincare can help even tone, reduce inflammation, and keep your skin healthy and radiant. This ongoing care ensures that the results you've invested in are maintained and continue to improve over time. 

Environmental Protection

Protecting your skin from daily environmental stressors like UV, HEV, IR, and pollution is always important but even more so after a procedure. After a treatment, your skin is especially sensitive to the sun, making it more prone to irritation and damage. Be sure to avoid direct sun post-procedure whenever possible and reapply your broad spectrum sunscreen regularly. 

Pairing Colorescience Products with Procedures

To learn more about pairing products with procedures, we have curated a selection of Colorescience products to complement some of the most popular skin treatments. Explore our product and procedure pairings here. 

Not sure what procedure is right for you? A Colorescience skincare professional can recommend the best option for your skin, along with a customized Colorescience regimen designed to support your aesthetic goals and enhance results. Find a partner near you here. 

The information shared in this blog post should not be used as medical advice. We encourage you to consult a board-certified dermatologist, a medical professional, or a skin health expert who is trained in addressing skin conditions and concerns and making appropriate skincare and treatment recommendations for you.