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Facial treatments are a staple of medical spa services and among the most popular procedures offered to Southwest Florida patients at Naples-based Tru Glō Medspa. The deep clean of a facial invigorates a patient’s skin and gives them a healthy-looking, radiant glow. However, facial benefits go well beyond a deep cleanse, and patients who undergo regular facials accrue significant enhancements to their health and beauty. In fact, regular facials provide patients with more than a dozen aesthetic and health-oriented benefits.

Needles are sharp and pointy, and they hurt when they pierce the skin. Given that a needle poke essentially causes trauma to the skin, you might wonder who discovered that repeatedly puncturing the skin with miniature fine needles encourages skin rejuvenation and can effectively treat numerous skin conditions.

People have been actively removing unwanted facial and body hair since ancient times. Archeologists believe our ancestral cave dwellers used seashells and sharpened flints to remove their hair to control lice and mites. While hygiene may have played a role, the upper classes of ancient Egyptian, Roman, and Persian civilizations controlled their facial and body hair to help mark their status. Unwanted hair was closely cut or shaved off with sharp blades, plucked with tweezer-like implements, pulled out with beeswax or a sugar wax substance, or removed with mixed success by assorted depilatory potions.