Why bother with AHA when there are other ways of getting rid of dead skin, like physical, abrasive type of peels?
There are many ways of doing things to achieve seemingly similar results. But in reality, the results are not quite the same. Let’s use the stamp analogy to explain: Suppose your face is an envelope, and the dead skin cells at the stratum corneum are stamps, held in place by glue. Physical peel is like using sandpapers to remove the stamp. But AHA is like a solvent that goes beneath the stamps and loosen the glue, allowing the stamps to fall off. At the end of both treatments, if you examine the treated skin microscopically, you would expect to see quite a bit of difference. Of course, AHA also has the added advantage of helping anti-oxidants and collagen boosters to penetrate further into the skin, resulting in longer term benefits. However, in the rare cases where allergy is a problem that prevents one from using AHA peel, our recommended alternative is the Herbal Enzyme Peel.
