Got an ugly tattoo? Want to remove your ex-lover's name in your chest? Skip the laser and simply use a tattoo removal cream.
We've all made some silly decisions like tattooing images that don't make a lot of sense or too ugly we don't like to show them to friends and family. Perhaps in the height of your commitment, you professed your undying love by having your partner's name somewhere in your body. Too bad, it didn't work out, but the remembrance is still there.
When you want to get rid of a tattoo, the best option is a laser treatment, but then it's not as easy as you'd like to think. First of all, it's going to cost you money--in fact, a lot of it.
Second, that tattoo doesn't disappear in one session. If that isn't enough, every laser therapy is going to be quite painful and uncomfortable. The doctor may apply some local numbing agent, but still there will be some inflammation and bruising. The surrounding areas may also be affected by the treatment.
If you don't want to go through any of these, you may want to wait for the official release of a tattoo removal cream.
This innovative cream is developed by Alec Falkenham with the help of Industry Liaison and Innovation (ILI) office of Halifax's Dalhousie University.
The 27-year-old who's in school for his PhD in pathology has developed the cream that can get rid of tattoo the painless way possible. He's even confident that there will be no inflammation at all.
But how does it work? When you have yourself tattooed, the artist creates a break in the skin to deposit the ink. But this activates the body's microphages by eating the ink and depositing it into the lymph nodes for removal from the body. Those microphages with ink, meanwhile, remain, creating the images you see.
The cream works on the microphages as well by stimulating new ones from consuming the skin with the ink.
Falkenham is now processing his patent and has already received funding. We just have to wait when it will be available.
