TreatmentsCoolPeel® CO2
The resurfacing power of a CO2 laser with days of downtime instead of weeks, delivered on the Tetra platform by our laser specialists.
Curious about
CoolPeel?
What is
CoolPeel?
CO2 lasers have always been the heavyweight of skin resurfacing: unmatched on fine lines, sun damage, and rough texture, but historically paid for with a week or two of raw recovery.
CoolPeel rewrites that trade. Using the Tetra CO2's ultra-short pulses, it vaporizes the damaged surface layer without cooking the tissue around it. The skin it leaves behind is treated, not traumatized.
You get the classic CO2 payoff — fresher texture, tighter pores, a genuine glow — on a recovery schedule measured in days.
Our laser specialists tune every pass to your skin, so the peel works exactly as hard as it needs to and not a joule harder.
Redness fades in a day or two, light flaking follows, and most patients are social by midweek.
The same wavelength trusted for decades of dramatic texture work, in a controlled dose.
One treatment addresses the surface-level signs of age that creams never quite reach.
Results improve for two to three months after treatment as remodeling continues below.
When your skin needs a fresh surface, not a long recovery, this is the laser.
Resurfacing is matched to your calendar as much as your skin. CoolPeel earns the recommendation when the goals are real but the downtime budget is small.
Texture Reads Rough
Skin that feels coarse or looks dull under makeup responds fastest to surface renewal.
Sun Left Its Signature
Fine lines and sun damage across the cheeks soften as the damaged layer lifts away.
Pores Became a Concern
Resurfacing refines enlarged pores in a way topicals never manage.
Your Calendar Is Full
A Thursday treatment has you presentable by Monday. Traditional CO2 cannot say that.
Serious resurfacing
used to cost weeks.
Now it costs
a weekend.
Traditional CO2 lasers linger long enough to heat the surrounding tissue, which is where most downtime comes from. The Tetra platform fires ultra-short pulses that vaporize the target layer and leave neighboring skin cool, so healing runs on a much faster clock.
Expect redness similar to a sunburn for a day or two, followed by a few days of light dryness and flaking as fresh skin surfaces. Most patients are comfortable at work and social events within two to three days.
Texture and glow improve within the first week, and collagen keeps building for two to three months. A single annual CoolPeel maintains the result nicely; a short series deepens it.
A chemical peel exfoliates the surface with acids at a fixed depth. CoolPeel removes tissue with laser precision, tunable to your skin and goals, while also triggering deeper collagen remodeling that acids cannot reach.
Yes, and often profitably. It pairs well with IPL for pigment, microneedling for texture, and injectables placed on a separate visit. Your provider sequences everything so each treatment heals fully before the next.
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What is the downtime for CoolPeel?
CoolPeel typically has 1 to 3 days of downtime. Expect sunburn-like redness for a day or two and skin that feels rough for a few days, far less than…
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New skin
by Monday.
Medically reviewed by Barbara Kowalczyk, FNP‑BC and Michael Fressola, ACNP‑BC, board-certified nurse practitioners at Skin Med Spa. This page is for education and is not a substitute for a personalized medical consultation.