When it comes to looks and beauty, some people will go to extreme lengths to get the results they want. It’s common to think of intense beauty treatments as being dangerous and to be avoided. But what if we were to tell you that there’s a fast, effective and affordable way to enhance your look?
Having the right information is the key to choosing the right treatment, so let’s get to it. Here’s how cryotherapy is used to enhance beauty so you know how to pick the perfect cryotherapy beauty treatment.
Understanding What You’re Trying to Achieve
If you are looking to include cryotherapy into your beauty regime, it’s best to understand what you’re trying to achieve. Cryo treatments have a variety of benefits and work best when part of a wider, healthy lifestyle.
If you’re looking to reduce the signs of aging, speed up weight loss or just improve your complexion, then there are different cryotherapy beauty treatment options. They’re outlined below, but first, here is a look at how they can all help achieve different beauty goals.
How does Cryotherapy Enhance Beauty?
The beauty treatments work in the exact same way as regular cryotherapy does. Suddenly lowering the temperature stimulates your body’s natural healing processes and gets rid of impurities and toxins from the skin. This leaves your complexion looking brighter and more youthful. Which treatment you decide to undertake is totally dependent on you and your desired outcome.
Radiant Complexion
During cryotherapy sessions, your blood circulation is stimulated, encouraging flow to the surface of your skin. Nutrient-rich blood is then circulated around your body and to the skin’s surface which allows for toxins to be flushed out easier and quicker. This is an effective way of restoring your skin.
After the treatment you should notice that you have a glowing complexion with fewer spots, blemishes, blackheads and wrinkles. A-List celebrities like Jennifer Aniston and Jessica Alba both choose cryotherapy to leave them with an enviable complexion.
Reduces Size of Pores and Creates Firmer Skin
The full skin care doesn’t just stop at a radiant complexion. Cryotherapy can make you look healthier and younger. Unlike many of us, cryotherapy doesn’t miss a single pore (even the smaller ones). Sub-zero temperatures encourage tighter and firmer skin, reducing the size of the pores while stimulating collagen production and blood flow.
Reduction of Wrinkles
As we age, our skin tends to become dry. Collagen and natural oil production levels start to drop so our skin becomes less elastic and wrinkles start to form. Although a natural part of aging, lots of people like to keep this in check.
Anti-aging and anti-wrinkle creams can only do so much. Cryotherapy is known to remove toxins and revitalise the skin. It is also renowned for slowing the aging process and increasing life expectancy.
Weight Loss
When used alongside a healthy diet and regular exercise regime, cryotherapy can promote weight loss. The freezing temperatures trick your body into thinking it’s going to freeze. This triggers the body to enter fight or flight mode. You’ll start to shiver and your internal processes will speed up to help increase your body temperature. Your metabolism is increased and fat begins to burn more quickly.
Reduction of Cellulite
Cellulite is best treated using localised cryotherapy. By briefly exposing certain parts of the body to sub-zero temperatures, you can activate a number of different reactions. Firstly, collagen production is stimulated and then the body enters fight or flight mode. Similarly to weight loss, more fat is burned off as the body is shivering and processes have sped up. Therefore, the more fat deposits that are burned, the less cellulite appears.
What are the Different Types of Cryotherapy?
Many people are under the wrong impression that cryotherapy is a new way of treating the body. Actually, it dates back to 1978 and was used in Japan by Dr Yamaguchi to treat patients with rheumatoid arthritis. He found that by using freezing treatments to rapidly lower the temperature of the skin, he could help to reduce the patients’ symptoms.
Since then, cryotherapy has evolved in many ways. There are now a wide range of treatments that have been proven to treat a variety of conditions, from fibromyalgia to sports injuries. It’s now a popular treatment that provides a lot more than pain management and athletic recovery.
Cryotherapy uses extreme sub-zero temperatures to treat the body and help it recover. The three main types of Cryotherapy that are used are:
Whole Body Cryotherapy
After entering the °CRYO Chamber, your body will be exposed to cryogenically cooled air for up to three minutes. Temperatures can reach as low as -140°C. You’ll be provided with mittens and socks to protect your extremities from the cold and you’ll enter the chamber in your underwear.
At °CRYO you can decide whether you’d like to be completely covered with the chamber or whether you’d like for your head and neck to be exposed to room temperature air. Both are common, it’s just a matter of personal preference.
Localised Cryotherapy
Cryogenically cooled air is applied to particular areas of the body. This can lock on to a target and reduce pain, soreness, inflammation and speed up recovery from injuries.
Localised treatments usually have the same benefits as a whole body cryotherapy treatment but target one particular area of the body or a “problem” area. In addition, it’s particularly effective in helping people target and manage pain in specific areas.
Localised cryotherapy is the preferred method of a number of cryotherapy beauty treatments, including the reduction of cellulite on the backs of the legs.
Cryotherapy Facial
Cryotherapy facials are the go-to method of choice for a variety of cryotherapy beauty treatments including improving skin condition and being an effective anti-wrinkle treatment.
For example, here at °CRYO, our Glow Facials tighten the skin’s pores and can also tighten the skin too. The sessions only take up to 10 minutes and are very relaxing.
