Cosmetic electrotherapy is a general term for any face or body treatment that includes the use of electric currents passed through the body to stimulate nerves and muscles, resulting in muscle toning on the body and micro-lifting of the face.
Galvanic treatments improve the skin through chemical results of desincrustation (cleansing), and iontophoresis (nourishing), using a small, constant current. Active substances penetrate the skin's subcutaneous tissues, improving vascular and lymphatic actions, resulting in improved function of the cellular membrane dispersing and eliminating excess fluid and fat. Treatment is effective on the face and neck, and areas of cellulite.
Faradic treatments use a short pulse of interrupted direct current which repeatedly contracts muscles, firming and toning. The treatment is sometimes referred to as neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES).
High-frequency treatment uses low-current high-frequency alternating currents. In beauty therapy, high frequency is used to help desquamation (exfoliation) and stimulate sweat and sebaceous glands.
Microcurrent treatments (MENS) use a very small direct current through muscle tissue (a micro-ampere current), which is hardly perceptible, but mimics the body's own bio-electric currents. Treatments increase ATP (which produces energy within cells), and ca be used to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines, and rejuvenate the appearance of skin affected by hyperpigmentation, acne scarring, stretch marks and cellulite.
Microcurrent is particularly effective on facial muscles, as they are directly connected to the skin, and applying a microcurrent can energise muscles and have a lifting effecting.