ABSTRACT
PREPARING THE SKIN Prepeel care is discussed in Chapter 2, and additional information can be found in Chapter 12. The safety of peels employing trichloroacetic acid in simple aqueous solution (TCA-SAS) has been greatly improved by systematic preparation of the skin before peeling. Preparing the skin helps improve microcirculation, increase glycosaminoglycan synthesis, increase the number of mitoses in the basal layer keratinocytes, stimulate production of epidermal growth factors, deactivate melanocytes, and even out and deepen the effect of the TCA.
