IPL Photofacial and Laser Skin Treatments in Kitchener, Waterloo and Guelph

At Bonita, a full face IPL photofacial is $250, or $750 for a package of four. Face and neck is $350 and face, neck and chest is $450. Most people having pigment or redness treated are booked for a series of three or four rather than one, so the package price is the number worth planning around. Your $50 laser consultation comes off the cost of your treatment.

For the things it is designed for, yes. IPL sends broad-spectrum light into the skin, the pigment and the blood vessels absorb it and heat up, and the body clears what has been damaged over the following one to three weeks. It works well on sun spots, brown patches, facial redness and broken capillaries. It does not resurface the skin and it is not a treatment for lines or laxity, which is where LaseMD Ultra, eCO2 and Potenza come in.

Two things to plan for. Brown spots go darker before they flake away, so you look worse before better for about a week, and people often book around that. And IPL is not safe on every skin tone. It targets pigment, so on deeper skin it can take the pigment you want to keep along with the pigment you do not, which is why we measure your skin with a Skintel reader before choosing a setting and will move you to PicoSure Pro instead when that is the safer call.

Photofacial is the common name for what an IPL device does to the face, so in most clinics they mean the same thing. The word photofacial gets used loosely though, and some clinics use it for LED or broadband light, which are different treatments with different results. Ask which device is being used.

No. IPL works on colour, so it will clear pigment and redness along the jawline and leave the laxity exactly as it was. Potenza RF microneedling is the treatment for firmness, and for some people neither one will give the result they are picturing, in which case a surgical consultation is the better conversation to be having.

What decides it is how much sun damage is there and what your skin tone is, and age tells us very little on its own. Plenty of our IPL clients are in their sixties and seventies and clear decades of accumulated sun spots. What does change over time is that pigment tends to sit alongside texture and laxity by then, so IPL on its own does less of the total job and gets paired with resurfacing.

Five platforms. Elite iQ for hair removal and vascular work, Icon IPL for photofacials, PicoSure Pro for pigment, melasma and tattoo removal, LaseMD Ultra for non-ablative resurfacing, and eCO2 for ablative resurfacing. We also run Potenza RF microneedling, which is covered on our microneedling page.

For IPL photofacial, most people are booked for three or four spaced about four weeks apart. Pigment that has built up over decades rarely clears in one session. LaseMD Ultra is commonly done as a series of four, and eCO2 is often a single treatment with a longer recovery. We will give you a number at your consultation rather than after you have paid.

Not every device is, which is the reason Bonita runs five. The Elite iQ uses an FDA-cleared Skintel melanin reader to measure skin before a setting is chosen, and PicoSure Pro is a safer choice than IPL across a wider range of tones. If skin tone and concern mean light-based treatment is not the right option, we say so instead of booking the treatment.

Hormone therapy is not a barrier, though hormones do influence melasma, so it is worth mentioning at your consultation because it changes which device we choose. We do not perform laser or IPL during pregnancy. It is a precaution rather than a known danger, and we will book you in afterwards.