Skin booster aftercare: the standard sheet

Skin boosters involve dozens of superficial microinjections, so patients leave with more visible injection points than almost any other treatment on your menu, and the right written aftercare is what stands between a settled patient and an anxious one. It also protects a course-based result: a patient who books a facial in week one or skips the SPF can undo work you will be judged on at review. The sheet below is standard and complete: copy it, adapt it to your own protocol and the manufacturer’s guidance for the specific product you use, and send it after every session in the course.

The aftercare sheet

Your skin booster treatment is done. The skin has received many tiny injections and needs a few days to settle, so please follow this guidance and contact your practitioner if anything is unclear.

What to expect

• Small bumps or raised points where the product was placed are normal and usually settle within 24 to 48 hours. Do not press or massage them.
• Redness, mild swelling and tenderness across the treated area are common and fade over a day or two.
• Small bruises can appear at some injection points and may take up to a week to fade.
• Results build gradually. Skin boosters usually work as a course of sessions, and the result is judged after the course finishes, not after one visit.

For the first 12 to 24 hours

• Avoid makeup on the treated area until the injection points have closed, ideally for 24 hours. Use clean brushes and a light touch when you restart.
• Keep the area clean. Cleanse gently and avoid rubbing or exfoliating.
• Avoid touching the area with unwashed hands.

For the first 24 to 48 hours

• Avoid strenuous exercise. A gentle walk is fine; the gym, running and hot yoga are not.
• Avoid alcohol, which can increase swelling and bruising.
• Avoid saunas, steam rooms, sunbeds and very hot showers while the skin settles.

For the first 1 to 2 weeks

• Avoid facials, facial massage, microneedling, peels, laser and other treatments over the area for one to two weeks, or as your practitioner advises.
• Apply a high-factor sunscreen (SPF 30 or above) daily and avoid deliberate sun exposure and sunbeds.
• Pause strong skincare actives (retinoids, exfoliating acids) on the treated area for a few days, then reintroduce them gradually.

Your course

If your treatment plan is a course, keep each appointment at the spacing your practitioner has set, even if you cannot yet see a change. The result builds across the sessions, and stopping partway through means an incomplete treatment.

Normal versus not normal

Normal: small bumps for up to 48 hours, redness, mild swelling, tenderness and small bruises that improve day by day.

Contact your practitioner promptly if you notice: increasing pain, heat, spreading redness or pus at any injection point (possible infection), a fever, a rash, itching or swelling of the lips or tongue (possible allergic reaction), or skin in or near the treated area that turns white, dusky, blue or grey, becomes blotchy, or is severely and unusually painful (possible vascular problem, which needs same-day assessment). These problems are uncommon, but they should always be assessed rather than waited out.

If anything worries you, contact your practitioner; that is what we are here for.

When patients should contact you urgently

The points to brief your team on: suspected vascular compromise (pallor, mottled or dusky skin, pain out of proportion) needs same-day practitioner review, and infection or allergy signs need practitioner triage rather than a routine callback. Record that the sheet was sent and when, so the advice given is never in dispute. Pair it with a signed skin booster consent form so the risks acknowledged before treatment match the guidance sent after it, and our skin boosters guide covers the category background for patient questions.

Make this automatic

A course of skin boosters means the same sheet sent correctly three or more times per patient. AesthetiClinic emails this sheet automatically after every appointment and records that it was sent, branded to your clinic and filed on the patient record. See the features page.

General aftercare guidance for UK aesthetics practice. Your practitioner’s specific advice always takes precedence. Patients with urgent symptoms should contact their practitioner or seek medical care immediately.