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. Fill in your clinic’s details, the product and the timings from the manufacturer’s guidance for the specific product you use, and send it after every session in the course. For Profhilo specifically, our Profhilo aftercare sheet covers the two-session protocol.

The aftercare sheet (copy, fill in and send)

Your clinic’s details

Clinic name: ___________________________

Clinic phone: ___________________________

Urgent / out-of-hours contact number: ___________________________

Email: ___________________________

Treating practitioner: ___________________________

Your treatment

Date of treatment: ___________________________

Product used: ___________________________

Areas treated: ___________________________

Session ___ of ___ in your course. Next session due: ___________________________

Aftercare after your skin booster treatment

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

What to expect

• Small bumps or raised points where the product was placed. For the product you had, these usually settle within ___________________________ (commonly 24 to 48 hours). Do not press or massage them unless we have told you to.
• Redness, mild swelling and tenderness across the treated area, fading over a day or two.
• Small bruises at some injection points, which 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.

What to avoid, and for how long

• For the first 24 hours: avoid makeup on the treated area until the injection points have closed. Use clean brushes and a light touch when you restart. Cleanse gently, avoid rubbing or exfoliating, and do not touch the area with unwashed hands.
• For ___ hours (commonly 24 to 48): avoid strenuous exercise, alcohol, saunas, steam rooms, sunbeds and very hot showers. A gentle walk is fine; the gym, running and hot yoga are not.
• For ___ days: pause strong skincare actives (retinoids, exfoliating acids) on the treated area, then reintroduce them gradually.
• For ___ weeks (commonly 1 to 2): avoid facials, facial massage, microneedling, peels, laser and other treatments over the area unless we have agreed them.
• Every day: apply a high-factor sunscreen (SPF 30 or above) and avoid deliberate sun exposure and sunbeds.

Your course

If your treatment plan is a course, keep each appointment at the interval we have set, even if you cannot yet see a change. The result builds across the sessions, and stopping partway through means an incomplete treatment. If you have not booked your next session, contact us now so the interval holds.

Contact us as soon as possible if you notice

• Bumps or lumps that have not settled in the time we described, or new lumps appearing later.
• Increasing pain, heat, spreading redness or pus at an injection point, or a fever, which could be signs of infection.
• A rash or itching.
• Anything that worries you.

Contact us immediately, at any time, if you notice

• Skin in or near the treated area turning white, dusky, blue or grey, or becoming blotchy or mottled.
• Severe or increasing pain that feels out of proportion to the treatment.

These can mean the product is affecting blood supply. They are uncommon, but they need same-day assessment rather than being waited out. Use the urgent contact number above. If you cannot reach us straight away, seek urgent medical care: call NHS 111, or go to A&E.

Call 999 or go to A&E immediately if

• You have any change in your vision.
• You have difficulty breathing, or swelling of your face, lips, tongue or throat.

Your practitioner’s specific advice takes precedence over this general sheet. If anything worries you, contact us; that is what we are here for.

Filling in the sheet

“Skin booster” covers products with different compositions, techniques and protocols, so keep one version of this sheet per product rather than one generic version. For each, fill in how long the injection-point bumps usually last, the course interval and the avoidance timings from the manufacturer’s guidance, and name the product at the top. Put your real out-of-hours arrangement in the urgent contact line. Any injected hyaluronic acid product carries a small vascular risk, so recognised complication guidance, including the Aesthetic Complications Expert (ACE) Group’s guideline on vascular occlusion, applies here too. Date each version so you can show which wording a patient received.

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, record product and batch on the treatment record, and see our skin boosters guide for 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, and note that the same secure links carry your e-signed consent forms, so consent and aftercare sit on one record.

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.