It is recommended alongside another treatment. Redness settles and healing speeds up between immediately and a week, which is how long it takes for the light to be absorbed and increase the energy available for repair. Timing it to a treatment schedule is more efficient than standalone upkeep.

Added right after a strong treatment, redness settles faster and healing speeds up, because this light acts more strongly while damaged tissue is repairing. It can be taken alone, but with no stimulus there is little for it to respond to, so it is usually taken as a finishing step.

It supports cell activity with gentle light, so it does help settle redness and inflammation. Because it produces neither heat nor a wound, though, it has no power to alter tissue, so large changes such as wrinkles or sagging are beyond it. It is more accurate to see it as recovery support.