Introduction

Chemical peels can give your skin a healthy, youthful, "just refreshed" look, or can be aggressive, taking years off of your appearance. Chemical peels are used for the purpose of skin exfoliation to help your body rid itself of dead skin cells and to make your body generate new skin cells more rapidly.
Chemical peels accelerate shedding of abnormal cells in the topmost layers of the skin. Removal of the outermost layer of the skin stimulates the cells in lower layers to grow and divide, causing the skin to thicken and thus diminishing visible signs of aging.
Significantly wrinkled skin may also require a face-lift, laser resurfacing treatment, or combination of procedures for best results.