Tattoo Removal At Home

If you have an unwanted tattoo, you only have a few options: use a topical tattoo remover such as a tattoo removal cream or gel and or go to a laser treatment center. While both options can help, there are substantial differences between each option.

For example, using a tattoo removal cream or gel is an inexpensive way to fade and help erase a tattoo, but it will take a time commitment as this option will take longer to remove a tattoo than going to a laser. However, removing a tattoo via a laser treatment center is by no means a short in-and-out procedure as you will have to wait for the skin to heal between sessions.

The reality is this that no matter which tattoo removal option you choose, you will have to be patient an be prepared to spend money. Tattoo removal creams are the least expensive but they are not free and laser treatment can sots hundreds of dollars per session. You will often need 10+ sessions to adequately remove a tattoo.

While more and more people are trying to use a tattoo removal cream to fade and help erase small to medium sized tattoos and or to pre-fade a large tattoo prior to a laser treatment,it is important to note that you should be on the look out for tattoo removal creams or gel that use Hydroquinone in their formula. This ingredient has been banned all over the world, and have been linked to the development of cancer. However, despite this face, some tattoo removal companies still use this ingredient in their formula.

You should also be aware that regardless of which option you choose, some tattoo colors will be harder to fade than others. While black is the easiest colors like green will be much harder to remove.

You can spend hundreds for tattoo removal. You can shell out thousands. Use a tattoo removal cream and you will spend hundreds. Opt for laser removal and it will cost thousands.

We hear from people who did  both. They used a tattoo removal cream first. At the very least it cut down the laser sessions. At best they never had to visit a laser clinic or doctor. Or, they run out of money for laser treatment. They use a good tattoo removal cream to finish the job.

Size does matter.

• If you have a large tattoo, you will use a lot of tattoo removal cream.
• If you have a big piece of art, you will need a lot more laser removal sessions. They just can’t do it all at once.

The bucks stop here. Let’s do the math.

• You can find a really good tattoo removal cream for an average of $45-$50 a bottle.
• Let’s say you use one bottle a month, for six months. You’ll pay about $300 to fade your tattoo.
• Let’s say you have a big tattoo, or ink in several places on your body.
• You use two bottles a month. You’re out six-hundred dollars.

Compare that to laser tattoo treatment.

We’ll use the same set of parameters.

• You have laser sessions once a month for six months.
• You will pay up to $500 per session. You total cost would be $3000 dollars.
• Let’s say you have a big tattoo, or several. Now you’re looking at $6000 dollars or more.
• You will need a local anesthetic because lasers hurt. Add at least $50 per session.
• It is not unusual for tattoo removal to cost ten-thousand dollars, according to infoplasticsurgery.com

Time matters.

A professional laser technician or doctor will not start a new laser session until the last one is healed. Your once a month estimate can stretch into a year.

People start seeing results from a tattoo removal cream after the first three months. But it will take six months for significant fading. A year is rare.

Lasers and creams work differently.

Topical tattoo removal creams coax unwanted ink to the surface. Your body is always replacing surface skin, so the inked cells are shed naturally.

A laser burns deep into the layers of skin to dissolve the tattoo.

You’re going to need a lot of tattoo removal cream. You’re going to need repeated laser sessions. You have a choice to make. If cost is your guide, you have an easy decision. Please visit our tattoo removal reviews for more information.

Tattoo removal is big business. Even tattoo parlors are offering to undo their art.

The four options for removing unwanted tattoos.

1. A tattoo fading cream. It’s the least expensive option. It’s totally safe. Except TCA in a fading cream. It is unsafe on many parts of the body and on all people of color.

Alpha arbutin fading cream works safely. You simply rub it on. It’s important to do it consistently. Then you forget it’s there. It doesn’t hurt. You will watch the tattoo fade over time, usually six months.

2. Laser tattoo removal. A laser sounds so efficient. How it works feels a bit barbaric. You’re given electric blasts to bombard deep skin. They’re trying to break up the ink. Tattoo parlors are starting to offer laser treatment for around  $150. You’ll find plastic surgeons who want five-hundred bucks per zap. You need an average of twenty whacks.

3. Chemical peel with dermabrasion. You can go to a dermtologist. If you go to a skin clinic a civilian wearing a white lab coat will try to remove a tattoo by burning off the skin. They put a chemical on your tat.  The skin begins to burn. It starts to peel. So it is scraped off. This is dermabrasion. It’s damaging. You swap a tat for a scar.

4. Surgery.

This is truly “tattoo removal.” They cut out the tattoo. A surgeon must take skin from your inner or outer thigh and transplant it over the hole. You trade two scars for one tattoo. One scar is at the tattoo site. The other is at the donor site.

Certainly, the gentlest and least expensive form of tattoo removal is a tattoo removal cream, used at home. The other options cause pain. And scarring. Please click on the following link to learn more about tattoo removal creams.

Who can afford up to ten thousand dollars for laser tattoo removal? Maybe Angelina Jolie. (The tabloids say she has tat regret.)

If you can’t spend that kind of money, don’t think a tattoo removal cream is a second-rate option. It works when you give it time.

Choose your tattoo removal cream carefully. Watch out for serious side effects and complications from skin peelers.

TCA (Trichloracetic Acid) is an acid skin peeler. Obviously, burning off skin hurts. It is so painful that dermatologists use anesthetic. Here’s how it works: first they put on the acid. Then the burned skin starts to flake. They use “exfoliation” to scrape off the dead skin. Do this enough, and your tattoo fades.  The basic premise is that they keep peeling off layers until they get down to the last of the ink.

A tattoo removal cream is gentle. It draws ink to the surface, where it is naturally shed.

Acid is not gentle. Physicians  use it on wrinkles or acne but not on tats. Patients aren’t satisfied when they end up with permanently messed up skin.

There are two huge differences between a tattoo removal cream and TCA fading.

1. Pain
2. Scars and complications

1. Pain

• A removal cream does not hurt. The ingredients do not break the skin.
• TCA cracks the skin. (By the way, lasers damage skin, too. It’s an expensive scar to “buy”.)

2. Risk of scars and complications

A removal cream does not scar. A complication, if you can even call it that, is that at first the tat looks brighter. This doesn’t last long.  It shows the cream is working.

• TCA (trichloracetic acid) leaves a scar. Skin is fragile. When wounded it always scars.
• Severe burns happen if you use the stuff around your eyes, mouth, and lips. Even the websites selling TCA products warn you not to use it on your face.
• It can be used ONLY on Caucasian skin. It really messes up black, brown and Asian skin.

High quality tattoo removal creams are safe and painless. It works over time on any skin color. Most importantly, it doesn’t attack your skin.

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