HydraFacial pre-care: how to prepare

A HydraFacial combines cleansing, exfoliation, fluid infusion, and suction. Pre-care gives the professional a clearer view of your skin and helps identify reasons to modify or postpone treatment, such as active irritation, sunburn, open sores, or a recent procedure. Your skin history matters more than a generic checklist: sensitivity, acne medicines, cold sores, allergies, and a tendency to darken after inflammation can affect planning.

Use a gentle cleanser and moisturiser, and avoid picking blemishes. Pause scrubs, waxing, depilatory products, retinoids, and strong exfoliating acids when your clinician advises; do not stop a prescribed medicine without checking first. Limit sun exposure and do not attend with peeling or sunburned skin. Remove heavy makeup before treatment if possible. Bring a list of medicines, allergies, skincare products, and recent injections, laser treatments, peels, or waxing. Ask which [Hydradermabrasion Device](/technology/hydradermabrasion-device/) and solutions will be used.

Contact the clinic before attending if your skin is sore, cracked, blistered, infected, or newly inflamed. Delay elective exfoliation until a clinician has assessed unexplained rash or swelling. After treatment, seek medical advice for rapidly increasing redness, severe pain, facial swelling, breathing difficulty, pus, or eye symptoms.

Which products should I pause, and for how long? Does my medicine or recent procedure change the plan? What should be applied on the day, and what symptoms mean the appointment should be postponed?