Glutathione-based Brightening Treatment, also known as IU Injection

Glutathione White Jade treatment, commonly known as IU Injection.

What is Glutathione?

Glutathione is a key antioxidant found in various parts of our body, including the liver, kidneys, and brain.

It can reduce cell damage by removing reactive oxygen species (ROS). It also plays an important role in assisting the activity of other antioxidants like vitamins C and E, contributing to cell protection and anti-aging.

Glutathione's Whitening Benefits

Beyond its simple antioxidant function, glutathione can also help brighten and even out skin tone.

Tyrosinase Inhibition

It can contribute to reducing the production of unwanted pigmentation by inhibiting the activity of tyrosinase, an enzyme that produces melanin.

Melanin Conversion Effect

Glutathione can promote the production of pheomelanin, which has a lighter color, over dark eumelanin. Through this, you can expect the effect of a brighter-looking skin tone.

Pigmentation Inhibition by Antioxidant Action

Reactive oxygen species generated by UV exposure, heat, or inflammation can promote melanin production. By removing these reactive oxygen species, glutathione helps reduce the fundamental occurrence of hyperpigmentation.

Synergy with Vitamin C

Vitamin C reactivates oxidized glutathione by reducing it. This activated glutathione inhibits melanin synthesis, allowing for an expectation of mutually complementary whitening effects.

In conclusion, glutathione is an ingredient that inhibits melanin production while inducing a lighter pigmentation pathway. Through this, it can help achieve natural and even skin tone improvement.

Glutathione Management: Which Approach is Effective?

Glutathione can be accessed in various forms, such as oral intake or intravenous injection. However, each method has distinct limitations.

Limitations of Oral Glutathione

When taken orally, glutathione has a low absorption rate in the gastrointestinal tract. Furthermore, since most of it is metabolized in the liver, the amount of active ingredient that actually reaches the skin can be limited.

For these reasons, it may be difficult to expect direct effects on skin tone improvement from oral intake alone.

Disadvantages of Intravenous Injection

Intravenous injections distribute the ingredient throughout the entire body, making it difficult to concentrate glutathione's action on a specific area.

While it can have positive effects on liver function improvement and systemic antioxidant activity, the direct targeted effect for facial pigmentation and skin tone improvement may be somewhat low.

A Differentiated Approach to Glutathione Treatment

We utilize Iontophoresis (iontophoresis). Using the power of electrical current, glutathione can be directly delivered beyond the skin barrier into the dermis layer. This method complements the limitations of oral intake or injection methods.

It can be precisely delivered to the desired area. This helps ensure that glutathione does not spread throughout the body but is selectively absorbed only into facial areas requiring pigmentation or skin tone improvement.

We utilize a highly concentrated undiluted solution. We generously use 100% undiluted glutathione ampoule without dilution to ensure that glutathione's inherent antioxidant and whitening functions are optimally effective.

This glutathione treatment focuses on 'a more direct approach than oral intake, and a more targeted approach than intravenous injection'.

Why Absorb with Iontophoresis?

Limitations of Oral Glutathione. Ingested glutathione has an uneven absorption rate in the gastrointestinal tract and is mostly metabolized in the liver, making it difficult to effectively reach the skin.

Limitations of Simple Topical Application. The outermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum, acts as a barrier protecting the skin from external substances. Therefore, water-soluble ingredients like glutathione are difficult to penetrate deeply when simply applied topically.

Advantages of Iontophoresis (Ion Electrophoresis)

Electrical Repulsion Effect. Negatively charged glutathione is pushed into the skin by an electrical current of the same polarity. This principle allows it to pass through the skin barrier.

Electro-osmosis Effect. A subtle electric current induces fluid flow within the skin, helping active ingredients to be absorbed through broader pathways.

Delivery of Active Ingredients to Deeper Skin Layers. Iontophoresis can contribute to effectively delivering ingredients to layers close to the dermis, rather than just remaining on the skin surface.

In conclusion, iontophoresis can be seen as a method that is more direct to the skin than oral intake, and absorbs active ingredients to deeper layers than simple topical application.

Treatment Cycle and Recommended Frequency

Recommended Cycle: Typically performed at 1-week intervals.

Recommended Sessions: A consistent course of at least 5 sessions or more may be recommended.

Maintenance: Consistent skin tone can be maintained through periodic supplementary treatments.