ClearLight Acne Treatment Reviews

I tried this a year ago with no results. Actually, it made my face worse. I payed SO much money and it did absolutely nothing for me. I recently asked my derm why it didn't work for me and I guess they forgot to mention that it does NOTHING for HORMONAL related acne....which most young adult women have. Save you $ - get a facial!

Apparently there are several types of light therapy. Bluelight or Clearlight is simply a narrow range, visible blue light, which has the ability to derease the surface bacteria in the skin. For greater benefit, Bluelight may be combined with a photosensitizing agent in a procedure called photodynamic therapy. In this process, Luvulan, the photosensitizing drug, is applied to the skin and then Blue light is used. According to the literature we received, this procedure is supposed to decrease the number of skin bacteria and diminish the size and activity of the sebaceous glands (the same goal as drugs like Tazorac and Avita). The effect, said the literature, may last for several months after a few photodynamic therapy sessions. The doctor also confirmed the good results she has had with patients. Desperite for anything that might, help my 18 year old son underwent 5 treatments of Levulan Photodynamic Therapy. Note that both the literature and the doctor in this case provided "hopeful" words but no guarantee. Let me say here that each treatment was outrageously priced and administered by a trained professional but not the doctor. Active pimples appeared to look much better immediately after each treatment, but within a few days things were back to usual. Right up to the last treatment we received encouraging words from the doctor to go on and get that last treatment. Four months after the last treatment we see no improvement. Unless you are wealthy, this is a lot of money to pay for a glimmer of hope that it just might be the treatment to turn things around. I wish I had read a review like the one I'm posting before we commited to the thereapy. (BTW, the doctor did encourage us to use Acutane simultaneously with the treatments. She said it would be the "icing on the cake". We refused Acutane.)

The red acnes won't go away for a few years and it caused my self-estem to hit rock bottom. I would constantly hide my face from the world and its depressing when I know that I'm actually a good-looking person without acne. I've tried 3 doctors and many kinds of expensive medication and it still doesn't work. Until my friend reconmend me to LS medical in Takashimaya. I tried clearlight and had my medication for 6 months, my skin totally cleared. Its expensive but its worth it if it gives results. I'm very happy with the results and have been reconmending it to my friends ever since.

horrible horrible is all i have to say about clearlight. i tried it to get off of using irritating retinoids- antibiotics and other perscription washes. i never had acne until i turned 20, and ever since then i had been struggling with it. i was really led to believe that this treatment would clear my skin.... boy was i WRONG!!!! it worked while recieving treatment- i did 8. and then 1 week after stopping- i have never seen my skin look as horrible as it did. and it looked that way for 3 months!! finally i went back to tazorac and my skin is now on the mend again. DO not spend the money to do this if you don't do research on what is personally causing your own acne, if it's not just bacterail- this will not work for you.

I actually bought the handheld version that they had in KOREA and it was suppose to be the same ones you get from the derms. Since it was the same wavelength output of 420nm. Anyways using the handheld device was more conveient for me than going to regular office visits but the cost of this was about $280 CDN. It's called the Thera Skin Blue Light. While using this for 3 times a week at 25 mins each time. I did not find any results after 1 month.I continued on for about another month and found out that these can make skin cancer more vulnerable and make the skin age process age more in the long term. So I immediately stopped doing this. Doing the Ultra Blueviolet light is very harmful to the skin!!

Having used the ClearLight Acne Treatment I can say it does have an effect on acne. In fact while receiving the treatments I wasn't getting any new breakouts and existing ones had a chance to go away. However, after the initial treatment round, I was told I would only have to come back maybe at the most every month for "maintenance" treatments. WRONG, while my face looked great for a few weeks as if nothing had ever been administered, it all started to come back. After doing the whole round of light treatments again I was no longer seeing results. It's as if the light stopped working.

In the end I feel this method could be much better if 1. It was cheaper. 2. Those administering the treatment realised the light has little or no lasting effect once you stop using it. 3. Insurance covered the cost. So if you've got lots of extra money, then it's worth a try, but if not try something else and save the cash.

I am wandering if all this ladies had their androgens hormones checked before the light treatments and if they have used medical therapy with it..

Clearlight is amazing...
I started having acne lesions on my lower face due to menopausal changes for the last 6 months.
My faced has started clearing with only the first Clearlight treatment! It's worth the price to not look like a teenager again with blemishes.

i have had the clear light done.I'll tell you i never saw the differnce and my acne got worst for some reason and i also have IPL'S done .. it might work for some people but it to expensive for it not to work and be disappointed.

clear light cost me alot of mooney but it was totally worth it my face is so much clearer than it use to be I was amazed it was well worth the cash.