This is the art video podcast where we are always reaching for truth and beauty. Remember, the brands on the show are not paying to be here, so we get to talk to them and ask the questions we know you want answered because you deserve to be informed so you can make the best choices for yourself. With that said, I'm Amber Today, my fabulous co-host is Peggy Chang. She is here from Glacial Skin.
And we are going to be talking all about a lot, or maybe I should say cool new technology called Glacial Rx. Welcome to the show, Peggy. I love it. Thank you for that intro. Amber. I'm so happy to be here. You know, I think that people are always kind of like, what's the newest, what's the hottest, What's the latest? What's a great And I actually got to try a glacial hour facial. And I was like, This is really, really cool. So let's just get right into it. What is the Glacial Rx device?
Thank you for asking that. Amber It's a really good question. So it's it's like what you would think. It's you know, the word starts with glacial. So we want to deliver glacial skin and actually our website's glacial skin dot com. So you can go on there and you know, look for all the information. But very simply, it's a device that has precision cooling. So you know what people when people think about cold, they think about it for treating a lot of things right.
If you hurt yourself, you have an injury, you get a bag of cold frozen peas. If you have a pimple, you put an ice cube on it. Things like that. I think from the beginning of time, you know, we as humans have known that cold really helps us with inflammation and pain and all of those things. And literally our access just really taken that an elevator to the next level. So we're a device that lets it have precision cooling, which means we can control what temperature it is at any time.
So we get as cold as possible to freezing without freezing the skin. So, you know, patients can feel really comfortable that they're getting, you know, a really great safe and clinically effective procedure without any of that worry of downtime or getting blisters or, you know, freezer burns and things like that.
You know, I think that we cryotherapy is having like this amazing resurgence maybe because we are aware that cold is really a wonderful thing to reduce that inflammation and we're starting to see so many skin conditions come from inflammation. But you know, what's the difference between sort of this device and let's say, you know, doing an ice cube, which we've all seen the tech talkers do on their face? Well, I mean, first of all, I ask it was kind of messy, right?
So it just kind of drips all over your face. It's got a very flat surface and and it's frozen. So if you put it on your skin for a little too long, you could potentially give yourself a, you know, a freezer burn of some sort. You know, this lets us really kind of get into the contours of skin really smoothly. You know, we've got a large tip also for treating larger areas of the body. So it really helps deliver that skin or deliver the cold to the skin in a really controlled way. Right.
You know, and our our team of engineers is always looking at ways to make it even safer, potentially delivering other cooler temperatures, which you just can't get, you know, with with an ice cube. Right. So so we were going back to this idea of the precision cooling. You know, is that important when you're trying to target certain skin conditions? Like, you know, you mentioned acne. Do we need to get it to a certain level in the skin in order to have it be effective?
Well, you know, it's it's that's tricky to say because there haven't been a lot of clinical studies that really are looking at kind of the exact temperature and what that that does. So I couldn't give you a lot of detail on that. But I can just say that, you know, being able to deliver a cold treatment without freezing, I think is really where we make sure that we give the most kind of bang for your buck with what you're getting. Right.
If you take an ice roller out, it starts to warm up immediately outside of the freezer. And, you know, depending on the type of material, we don't actually know what the temp of that material is. But with our treatment from beginning to end, we know what we're delivering and that temperatures are and the algorithm behind it, the intensity, the duration, all that's our secret sauce. And we wanted to change that and in time do other things with it. So that's the really exciting part.
I mean, this is a really new device. We've only been out for, you know, two years and we're still learning all the things that we can do with it. I love that. No, I went for just sort of your regular, beautiful facial. I will say my skin was glowing afterwards and boy, did it just feel nice to lay on that bed. And it is, you know, it's cool. But unlike people who are used to maybe some of those hot things like lasers, which we know are painful, this was not this was just a lovely feeling.
But, you know, in addition to this idea of glacial overall glacial skin, beautiful skin and going for, let's say, a facial, what are some of the other more specific skin conditions that we can be targeting with this device? Well, you know, what I'll say is I'll give you our FDA clearances and kind of let it be, you know, we'll share it that way. That's a little bit easier, I think, for me to explain.
So the device first started off with looking at kind of very specific superficial lesions, I would say. So we call them lint surgeries or separate keratosis, but essentially these are like age spots. So the glacial arcs device actually has a modality where it can treat very specific age spots, you know, when you can actually freeze and remove them. And that's another portion of the device where it does get to freezing temperatures.
But then we also have an FDA clearance for the reduction of pain, inflammation and swelling. And so with that, you can imagine how many of the things you know are cause inflammation. And then, you know, there's a lot of different output of what information can look like. So a way to educate people that we've created is actually a website called Skin inflammation dot com. And so you can go to see inflammation dot com and kind of see, you know, what inflammation in the skin can present.
As you know English X has a clearance for treating treating that inflammation and then also very recently we also have a couple other additional clearances. So we got the clearance for the temporary reduction of, of pain. So basically, you know, we can be delivered as a topical anesthetic without having to add anything.
So then all those other things that you mentioned that can be kind of uncomfortable or have some sort of discomfort that's related to potentially pain or heat or something like that. You know, we actually can be delivered as a topical anesthetic, you know.
And then lastly, we have a clearance for, you know, the treatment in conjunction with other dermatological procedures or lasers, which means we are one of the few devices that can actually be promoted, you know, with other things like, you know, microneedling procedure or, you know, a laser skin resurfacing procedure of some sort. So it's really multifaceted.
You know, I think with cooling, what we can do is you can deliver that treatment that you mentioned, the glacial gloss treatment on its own, which is a lovely four step treatment. And it's really, you know, feels really great. You get that really nice glow offer. But you can also, you know, you can do the freeze treatment, the glacial freeze where you can remove certain kind of specific age spots that you might not like.
And you can also, you know, do this post a laser post microneedling, because something else that's uncomfortable, we have all sorts of people kind of experimenting and looking for ways to to deliver that really cold treatment. So it's really exciting times. I think the technician who delivered my treatment did mention that this is very popular after a lot of the laser treatments, which, as I mentioned before, you know, delivering heat to targeted areas in the skin, it's painful.
I don't care if anybody tells you it's not painful. If they're working, they're going to be painful. So this is a really nice way to kind of help not only reduce the inflammation, you know, I do want to point out, but deliver pain relief as well. I do want to point out, though, you know, for people who are like, oh, I've got a cold device at home, right? This is a medical device. This isn't just, you know, one of those things that we can buy for a couple hundred bucks.
It's going to cool our skin or like a glorified roller that you put in the fridge or freezer, right? Yes. Yes. Thank you for calling that out. And we're actually, you know, our our origins actually come from dermatology. So our founders are three dermatologists who are also involved in another device that treated noninvasive fat reduction with cold. So, you know, we are still very involved with with these three dermatologists. And I think that that speaks to kind of the clinical backing of it.
You know, it's really it's a class to medical device. And so we have to treat it that way, which means, you know, we have to really only partner with them, you know, clinical settings that can that can deliver the safely. You know, sort of people are. Is this something that people would seek out, though, you know, like a facial? I know that I'm seeing it's some places here in the city that are offering this not as a complement to a laser treatment, but as a stand alone on its own.
Absolutely. Yes. So that's the glacial gloss procedure or the glacial gloss, our procedures. So we have a couple different ones and it's a four set procedure and it has an EXFOLIATOR tip in there. So the combination of a little bit of exfoliation and plus extended controlled continuous cooling on the skin paired with some topicals is a really just nice, comfortable procedure. We've got some great before and afters. Actually.
The technician who delivered yours sent us a couple of really great ones. She had one one girl who was like really pink, really puffy. And then after a couple treatments, she just looked amazing. So, you know, I think it's kind of incredible. I think we're you know, we're really turning the notion of, you know, beauty is pain on its head.
I think that now, you know, we have a treatment where you can actually deliver something really fantastic without having to be super uncomfortable the whole time. I mean, again, I don't have problematic skin, but my skin was glowing afterwards. And I asked you it was this good for, let's say, an event, you know, before you're doing something. Now, I will say just as a human to human, if you are getting married, if you have a giant event, don't do anything.
For the first time right before your event that just because you just never know. But but certainly this is something having done this, you know, if I had a wedding to go to, I mean, if I was getting married again, but I'm happily married, I would do this before because it did. It gave you that beautiful glow. I love that, Amber. I mean, you vow renewal. I mean, you have beautiful skin. You have the after in the photos that everybody wants. But. But like you said.
Yeah, I mean, this is so comfortable. It's, you know, it feels great. We've actually had people fall asleep and snore. So that just goes to show you, you know, how how, how enjoyable it is. And I think, you know, we we like to think of it as a really refreshing experience. And, you know, unlike just your traditional facial, right, we know that facials look good, You feel good afterwards. But but these actually have cumulative effects, right?
Cumulative benefits, as you mentioned before, with that woman who had very red skin. And after doing a few of these, her skin appeared less pink. Yeah. And, you know, I think in general, it's like going to the gym or eating healthy. You can't eat, you know, you can't expect to eat one bowl of broccoli and be like, okay, you know, you got two abs and you've lost £10, right? We've got to do a cumulative cumulative. We, you know, to really see those effects.
And the same with with any treatment, you know, including this one. You know, we think it's a really great thing for your skin wellness regimen, really. You know, you start off getting a treatment. And what it does is it helps decrease those pro-inflammatory mediators in the skin and increase anti inflammatory mediators. So in general, you're kind of reducing the base level inflammation that you have.
And then as you do more of them, you kind of just need to suppress sort of less of that because you've already been getting on a good regimen. And like this, like I said, the same with everything else. I think it's really good to get on a you know, on a plan of some sort or a routine where you're incorporating all these things that add to your you know, to your health and your lifestyle. And same with them with glacial arcs delivering glacial skin.
So let's talk about you know, and let me know if you can't say this, but would you say this is safe for people with eczema, rosacea? So what I'll say is, you know, our FDA clearance includes inflammation and it doesn't include specific skin conditions.
So if I'm very honest, I can't say that we treat X, Y and Z. But what I will say is that, you know, because we have this FDA clearance for inflammation and and we have a lot of practitioners, clinicians who are treating on various inflammatory skin conditions, we've seen a lot of improvement in a lot of different conditions so that the the list of conditions actually runs the gamut of where we've seen people deliver treatments.
But if I were to say in this deliver, you know, you know, treat this and cure it, I wouldn't be able to say that. And I guess like everything else, you know, these are going to be in clinical settings. So make sure to have that conversation with your clinician who should be able to determine whether it's right or you.
You know, I know we're coming out of the summer, but I wonder if this would be good for something like if you accidentally because I know you're all wearing SPF every day, like a little bit of a sunburn. Yeah, actually, you know what? We have had people try this. I think the the beauty of this treatment, the art of beauty, is that it will deliver. And so easy to receive.
And so people have just, you know, once they've received it, you know, like an S a Titian or a dermatologist or a plastic surgeon and they've said, what else can I do? And so we we had people in the summer months where a lot of other heat based devices are put away, you know, kind of waiting until the fall Again, we had people kind of go crazy with with glacial our extras trying to see what else they can, what else they can do, how else it might feel or, you know, what the outcome might be.
We've done we had people who had some sunburns. You know, we had one person who had a sunburn on their back and one of the practices who had glacial rocks treated this this whole really sunburned red back. And the patient was super happy and, you know, felt much, much better afterwards. Right. So, again, because it's FDA cleared for inflammation, if you're having something that is a result of inflammation, that is certainly great.
And also for pain relief, like you said, you know, how many places is this in right now and where can we find this if we're interested in this, either as the facial or perhaps we know that we are going to have some sort of a laser. We know that we're sensitive to pain. And we'd like to add this on. How can we find out where it is? Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, we are very early on, as I mentioned, So we're just getting out there and we have a lot of big interest from a lot of different types of, you know, clinical places and derm, plastic surgery offices, med stores. But you can go on to our website to glacial skin ecom and you can actually see on the on the top button there, there's a provider locator. So you can actually, you know, type in your zip code or city and you can find a location near you.
I know I have to Thursday because we keep it real here, Right. This is going to cost more than if you're going for a facial. If you're going, this is going to cost more. Right. We know costs vary from where you are in the country, also where you are in the world, but ballpark for these treatments.
You know, it really depends, I would say, because it depends on sort of like the type of practice that you're going to if they're delivering anything else with it, if it's your you know, if it's your physician delivering it or somebody else delivering it. But, you know, it typically will run in the range of, you know, a couple hundred dollars probably to start with. But, you know, I think you can buy them in packages. And there's oftentimes, you know, really some nice some nice deals.
So I would say, you know, the other thing, too, about the price is that although, you know, glacial facial is kind of a tagline that a lot of practices like to use. And it's really fun and easy to remember. This is a class three device. So, you know, it's not just a facial treatment. It can be delivered on the body and other parts of the skin. And so and with that, you know, we have some real clinical outcomes.
So I think with that, you know, you're getting kind of the best of the facial, but you're also getting a really nice little medical treatment as well.
You know, I bet, too, that there's going to be a lot of practitioners who are going to just include like this is just going to be part of you're getting X, Y, Z. It's not going to be you're paying for this and then adding this on, or maybe they will, but I bet a lot of them are just going to use this because I know again, after speaking to the technician who did my treatment, she said that after the laser like she does this now for everybody because it just reduces that downtime
and that pain, the pain immediately, but then also the downtime over the long run. Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, we're seeing really, really nice outcomes and, you know, we're asking such a new device. We didn't really know what to expect, really kind of first launch. We thought, okay, well, you know, we've got some we've got some great clinical studies on this and these are what our FDA clearances are.
But we've been really pleasantly surprised with, you know, just how well-received it's been. You know, we've just had so many people tell us, hey, this made this thing feel much better or I'm so much less pink or, you know, this or that. So I think that's the really exciting part. Amazing. And, you know, like we said, cryotherapy is ages old, but we are seeing new technologies, new developments come out. Peggy, I want to thank you so much for being on here today.
Can you just remind people if they want to know more about this, if they maybe want to find a provider that's offering this in their area, where can they go? Yeah, absolutely. So you can go to a glacial skin dot com and then on the top in the top right hand corner, you'll be able to see provider locator so you can find a practice near you. And also you can follow us on social. So on Instagram, we're glacial dot skin. And then on TikTok we are at glacial skin. So amazing.
And of course I have done this treatment not after a laser, but I did it as the glacial facial. If you want to have questions, if you want to ask me, you can always do that. You can email me at hello@artbeautypodcast.com. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube @ArtBeautyPodcast Peggy, I want to thank you so much for being with us today. Thank you so much, Amber. It's been so much fun. Amazing.
And we will see you all next Tuesday, maybe with just like a little bit glossier, cooler looking skin. My little skin. It's all right.