No price list. What drives the cost of skin treatment, why courses are priced the way they are, and how to compare two clinics on more than the fee.
Because a figure detached from the assessment, the device, the number of sessions and the practitioner's ability to manage complications is not information. It is a shopping prompt. This page sets out every variable that moves the number instead.
Almost everything on this site works cumulatively. Three to six sessions of needling, four to six peels, three sessions of injected hydration, a staged scar programme over a year. That is clinically correct and it makes price comparison genuinely difficult, because a per session figure tells you very little about what the whole thing will cost or achieve.
It also creates an incentive worth being aware of. A clinic that sells courses has a reason to propose a course, including when a course is not what your skin needs. The defence is not suspicion; it is asking what happens if you stop after two sessions, and listening to how the answer is framed.
Ask for the cost of the plan, not the cost of the appointment.
Write both sets of answers down side by side. The price difference generally explains itself once you can see what each clinic is actually proposing.
Treatment offered with credit at the moment of decision deserves the same scrutiny as any other credit agreement, and rather more scepticism about the setting. If the plan only works spread across payments, that is a reason to wait. Nothing in this field is time critical.
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This website publishes no prices, runs no directory, takes no payment from any clinic and does not rank or recommend anyone. Nothing here would be improved by a commercial arrangement with a treatment provider, so there is not one.
It is operated by Aesthetic Launch Lab, a UK aesthetics digital specialist. See the about page.
Because a figure detached from the diagnosis, the device, the number of sessions and what is included tells you nothing useful. This page sets out the variables instead.
For treatments that work cumulatively, usually. Be cautious about prepaying for a long programme before you know how your skin responds.
Either model can be fine. A charged consultation deducted on proceeding removes the incentive to sell you something in order to be paid for the appointment.
Not automatically. The quality of the assessment predicts your outcome better than the fee does.
Yes. Sun protection and an appropriate topical routine determine whether the result of any procedure holds, and they are an ongoing cost.
Ask before you start. A clinic should tell you plainly what a partial course achieves and what happens to unused sessions.
The decision
Judge the assessment rather than the equipment. A good clinic names your diagnosis before it names a device, r...
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Evidence
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After treatment
Keep it simple. Gentle cleansing with clean hands, a bland moisturiser, nothing active for around a week, no h...
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Nearly every disappointing skin result starts with the wrong problem being treated. This site exists so that you can work out what you are actually looking at before anyone points a device at it, and so that you know which questions a good clinic will welcome.
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