Expert reveals the best way to banish wrinkles – and it’s NOT retinol
It is the skin care product that most women have in their beauty kit.
But according to an expert, using retinol – known for its anti-aging benefits – could soon be replaced by simply bathing your face in infrared light.
Shark Ninja – best known for vacuum cleaners and air fryers – has invented a therapy mask that they claim is the best way to banish wrinkles.
The £270 device shines different wavelengths of light onto the face to help maintain ‘luminous skin’ and a youthful glow.
When used daily for four weeks, people said their skin’s glow improved by 16 percent.
The mask has 160 LEDs that emit blue, red and infrared light, which can penetrate the skin at different depths.
Sam Bannister, design director at Shark Ninja, told the Daily Mail: ‘With red and infrared light they have a long wavelength.
‘As the photons from the light travel from the LED to the skin, they can penetrate or be absorbed much, much deeper.’
Shark, best known for vacuum cleaners and air fryers, has invented a therapy mask that it claims is the best way to banish wrinkles
The £270 device shines different wavelengths of light onto the face to help maintain ‘luminous skin’ and a youthful glow
Mr Bannister added: ‘Then there is a chain reaction.
The light causes the skin cells to operate at a higher energy level, so they upregulate ATP production, which acts as the cell’s power source.
‘For example, because your skin produces collagen, this would lead to more and more being produced.
‘So we don’t add or take away anything. We just make your skin work harder to get the best out of itself.”
Retinol, which has become a skin staple in recent years, works by increasing the rate at which skin cells are produced and killed, exfoliating the skin and unclogging pores.
It also increases collagen production, which can reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
“Retinols promote cell proliferation, and this mask does that too, so you could replace that, for example,” Bannister said.
However, he still recommends using a moisturizer after any LED treatment.
When used daily for four weeks, people said their skin’s glow improved by 16 percent
The mask has 160 LEDs that emit blue, red and infrared light, which can penetrate the skin at different depths
It was back in the 1990s that NASA began studying the effects of LEDs on promoting wound healing in astronauts by helping cells and tissues grow.
Today, LED lights are being touted in today’s beauty industry to treat everything from wrinkles, redness and signs of aging to acne, scars and dark spots.
They emit red light that acts on cells in the skin known as fibroblasts, which play a role in the production of collagen, the protein linked to the skin’s hydration and elasticity.
Meanwhile, some who emit blue LED light claim to treat acne by reducing activity in the sebaceous glands so they produce less oil that can clog hair follicles.
The Shark Beauty CryoGlow mask – which also offers under-eye cooling – is one of several LED masks that are proving to be a particular hit with social media users.
Dr. However, Graeme Glass, professor of clinical surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, called the use of LED masks “highly questionable.”
“The popularity of LED masks, including the various at-home options such as Iron Man-style masks, tanning bed-style shields and portable wands, is undeniable,” he said.
‘But they are cheap to produce and questions have always been raised about how effective they are in the deeper layers of the skin where real change happens.’