The Melatone™ Journal
Clinical aesthetics, honestly written.
No "10 reasons you need filler" listicles. No before-and-after exploitation. Just the questions Battersea patients actually ask us, answered by the team that delivers the treatments. Skin of Colour aesthetics, regenerative skin therapy, and the post-GLP-1 protocols nobody else is writing about properly.
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Microneedling for neck lines and crepey skin. What it can do, and what it cannot.
What a 2022 neck trial found and where it falls short, why the neck is treated more gently, darker skin, what microneedling will not do, and face and neck prices.
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Mandelic acid. What it does for skin, and when a clinic peel beats a serum.
Why its molecule size gives a gentler exfoliation profile, what three small trials in Indian patients show and do not show, serum or clinic peel, and the pauses for pregnancy, nut allergy and isotretinoin.
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Microneedling or a chemical peel. Which one for acne scars, and which for acne marks.
Flat marks or scars with depth, what a peel and microneedling each do, a trial of 60 people with Fitzpatrick IV to VI skin, and how the two combine.
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Retinal vs retinol. Which vitamin A, and which strength, for your skin.
The retinol to retinal to retinoic acid chain, the 1990s retinaldehyde trials, a four-week introduction protocol, the pregnancy and pre-treatment pauses, and why irritation on Fitzpatrick IV to VI leaves marks that outlast the redness. Seven peer-reviewed sources plus DermNet and the NHS.
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Your laser patch test, explained.
What the test is, why BMLA guidance treats it as compulsory, and what a normal versus abnormal reaction looks like on light skin and on deeply pigmented skin, where redness is not a reliable sign. Twelve named sources.
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Ozempic and Mounjaro face. Which treatment actually fixes it?
Filler, polynucleotides, skin boosters and biostimulators compared, and which change each one treats.
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