Salon vs Clinic

Illuminate Skin Clinic is a doctor-run clinic offering treatments that you can trust in a clinic environment that maintains the highest standards of care – with particular attention on our patients’ experience.

We hear people ask a lot, what do I achieve from choosing a clinic facial over salon facial? Not all salons offering facial rejuvenation treatments undergo such intense scrutiny. When you visit Dr Sophie at Illuminate Skin Clinic, you can be confident in your choice.
All our Skincare lines at Illuminate are Doctor led this means we can be confident in our results and know they completely safe. We provide iS Clincal facials and skincare, whilst this is one of our softer approaches, these products are of the highest purity and pharmaceutical grade quality. They have been clinically validated by peer reviewed published studies – extremely unusual in the skincare industry.
Obagi is another skincare brand we stock. Obagi was founded by Dr Zein Obagi in 1988, and incorporated a range of in-clinic treatments with at home topical skin care. Obagi aims to give you healthy skin from the inside out. Obagi has ranges to target all common skin concerns using a combination of prescription and non-prescription products. Unlike many other ranges Obagi is suitable for use by all Fitzpatrick skin types I – VI.
Illuminate’s medical microdermabrasion uses cuboid shaped crystals whilst non-medical microdermabrasion uses round crystals. Thus medical microdermabrasion can produce a better exfoliating effect.
At our clinic we drive to achieve results, whilst salon facials performed by beauty therapists smells and feel nice, we questions how effect their results are.