The 6 Best Cold Laser Therapy Devices for At-Home Healing
These devices calm your skin, reduce wrinkles, treat joint pain, and more.
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In a world where potent and easy-to-use products are commonly employed to address common skin concerns like acne, dark spots, and wrinkles, light therapy is likely the last thing you'd turn to. But don’t knock it ‘til you try it—the red and infrared lights involved in these devices, especially cold laser therapy, have a host of benefits for your skin and beyond.
“Low-level laser therapy (LLLT), or cold lasers, are not actually new. They’re used in sports rehab centers across the world to rebuild cartilage, heal tendons, and treat sprains and pains across the world. In fact, LLLT technology has been in hospitals for more than 60 years,” says Lucy Goff, the founder of LYMA. And now, devices like the LYMA laser use that technology to heal and transform our skin, too, by “emitting one or several wavelengths of light to calm skin inflammation, boost skin rejuvenation, promote hair growth stimulation, and or reduce acne,” adds Dr. Kseniya Kobets, a board-certified dermatologist and the director of cosmetic dermatology at Montefiore Advanced Care in Elmsford, NY. The bottom line is that the best cold laser therapy devices allow you to reap all of those benefits from the comfort of your own home.
Top picks for the best cold laser therapy devices in 2024
Another major perk of cold laser therapy is that there isn’t any downtime involved. While traditional lasers rely on heat to injure the skin and encourage it to repair itself, “cold lasers” use a lower-level light to emit energy into the tissue. “This high-energy state causes gene expression responsible for tissue repair and regeneration to be dialed up, and genes associated with tissue breakdown and aging to be switched off,” explains Goff. You may feel or see results in a matter of hours.
Ready to start your own journey with laser therapy? We spoke to the above experts and pored over countless online reviews to bring you the six best cold laser therapy devices for everything, from wrinkles to joint pain. Let us light the way, ahead.
Carol is the Associate Beauty E-Commerce Writer at ELLE.com, where she covers all things beauty. Before joining ELLE.com, she was an editor at Food Network Magazine and HGTV Magazine. She’s always on the hunt for the perfect lipstick and watches the same few comfort sitcoms (Frasier, Cheers, Seinfeld, New Girl, etc.) over and over again.
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