Deep Impact

This intense treatment goes beyond the surface, giving your skin a thorough cleanse and delivering a boost of nutrients deep into it for a visibly improved visage.

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This intense treatment goes beyond the surface, giving your skin a thorough cleanse and delivering a boost of nutrients deep into it for a visibly improved visage.

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If you look after your skin properly but still feel it’s lacking a little something, it may be time to take things to a deeper level – literally.

The Intensive Purifying Facial at DRx Medispa ($321 for 90min) was created to give skin a deep, thorough cleanse so skincare can be better absorbed. It does that by way of hydro-microdermabrasion and manual extraction, which removes surface dead skin cells, and dislodges oil plugs, comedones and debris stuck in pores respectively.

The treatment involves a hydro-infusion session too, whereby antioxidants, vitamins and nutrients with a host of benefits to alleviate the effects of environmental stressors, strengthen skin, boost skin cell renewal, aid in the skin’s natural recovery, and help combat premature skin ageing, are infused deep into skin.

Ultrasonic infusion technology is also used to deliver a medical-grade serum concentrate with nourishing, hydrating and radiance-boosting ingredients into the deeper layers of the skin. Post-treatment skin is said to be smoother, brighter, more even-toned and glowier.

Other treatments at the medispa include O2 Premier Rejuvenate ($287 for 90min) – the Her World Spa Awards 2017 winner of the Best Medispa Brightening Face Treatment, Readers’ Choice. It uses medical-grade oxygen as a delivery mechanism for skincare ingredients – the oxygen is said to drive the actives deeper into skin to boost efficiency.