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So, what exactly is the Obagi Blue Peel and TCA skin peel and what makes them so effective at transforming and rejuvenating skin?The Obagi Blue Peel is a skin peel that like most skin peels removes the surface most layers of skin through a controlled burn process.This in turn leads to peeling off of the dead skin cells and the revealing of fresh, younger looking skin.The Obagi Blue Peel was originally invented by Dr. Zein E. Obagi.Dr. Obagi saw the need for a controlled variable depth skin peel that would make application almost foolproof.This would limit training and broaden the range of specialties that could use chemical peels.
It is important to note here that chemical peels are actually, for the most part, very easy to apply, its just that due to legal concerns and liability issues medical practices try to limit themselves to the learned practice, but due to the depth indication component of the Blue peel, many outside specialties even as far as dental and oral specialties or minimally staffed medi spas (some of which doctors are rarely ever on site) started to offer this treatment.
Basically, the Obagi skin peel is a skin dyeing solution that when applied to the face and neck skin will dye it blue or green in color indicating where the acid has been applied and how strong or deep.The more times it is applied the darker the dyed skin becomes.This made it so a more even peel with fewer missed areas would result.It was also very important as if a doctor gets called out for an emergency of sorts during an application, they can go back and easily see where it was and wasn’t applied.
The dye solution basically comes inert and has no chemical burning or peeling properties of its own.It needs to have trichloroacetic acid added to it to make it effective.The trichloroacetic (TCA) acid is its only active ingredient and is obtained separately.A neat feature of TCA (unlike most other skin peels) is that it self neutralizes with the skin so no neutralizer is needed except in strong applications or very sensitive skin issues.