Written for you to read before you decide.
Four long pieces covering everything around the treatment itself: reading the evidence a clinic shows you, the standards to expect of whoever treats you, what moves the cost, and recovering properly.
Evidence
How to read before and after photographs
Because cosmetic photography can be transformed without editing a single pixel, by changing lighting, angle, distance, expression ...
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The decision
The standards to expect from a skin clinic in London
Judge the assessment rather than the equipment. A good clinic names your diagnosis before it names a device, records your skin typ...
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Cost and value
What skin treatment costs in London, and what moves the number
Because a figure detached from the assessment, the device, the number of sessions and the practitioner's ability to manage complic...
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After treatment
Aftercare after skin treatment
Keep it simple. Gentle cleansing with clean hands, a bland moisturiser, nothing active for around a week, no heat or exercise for ...
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Recently published.
Shorter pieces written as the questions come up, newest first.
7 October 2026
How to read patch test and downtime information
What a patch test establishes, how long a clinic should leave between test and treatment, and the questions that reveal whether a course was planned around your skin.
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26 September 2026
What a consultation first skin appointment in London covers
The assessment, consent, treatment plan and safety checks a consultation first appointment should cover.
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26 September 2026
Depigmenting peel courses for melasma in London
How depigmenting peel courses approach melasma and persistent pigmentation, including home care, sun protection and the limits of treatment.
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25 September 2026
London cosmetic clinic register checks before booking
Checking GMC, NMC, GDC, GPhC, JCCP and Save Face entries before a London cosmetic skin clinic appointment.
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Start with the diagnosis.
Tell us what you are seeing on your skin, how long it has been there and what you have already tried. You will get a considered reply setting out what the finding is likely to be, which treatments address it and which do not.
hello@aestheticlaunchlab.comPlease do not send clinical photographs or medical records by email. If something has gone wrong after a treatment, contact the practitioner who treated you, or NHS 111, rather than waiting for a reply here.