“TL;DR: For skin tightening with RF always leave at least one day and a maximum of 14 days between sessions. The body needs some recovery time, so daily treatments are counterproductive.

This applies even to the very low power home RF machines, which are also generally ineffective.”

RF skin tightening treatments: how often to have them?

How often can you have radiofrequency skin tightening on the stomach, face or any other body area?
Never do daily RF treatments
Radiofrequency: 1-15 days between sessions
Extremely high intensity RF
How often can I do radio frequency on my face, stomach or thighs at home? Can I use portable RF everyday?
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How often can you have radiofrequency skin tightening on the stomach, face or any other body area?

With any effective body treatment, it is good to leave one or more days between sessions in order to allow for the skin to recover.

So with a deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency treatment, you must leave at least one or two days between sessions, depending on how intense or safe the treatments are.

Less intense / more safe treatments require just one day between sessions. More intense or less safe treatments need two days (or up to 3 months for the unsafee, and not much more effectiv treatments).

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Never do daily RF treatments

You should never do daily treatments:

If treatment is too weak to allow for daily sessions, it’s not effective either, so you are wasting time and or money. This is the case with low power machines at many salons and clinics - even expensive clinics.
If treatment is strong enough to be effective and you have daily sessions, you will end up with irritation, burn or injury. So don’t do it.
You always need some time between sessions to allow the body to recover, adapt and rebuild itself. Not allowing at least day off between sessions is exactly the same as having a “leg day” at the gym every single day - as every gym goer know, such a thing is just plain stupid.

So in all cases, daily treatments are pointless.

Radiofrequency: 1-15 days between sessions

So in summary for a treatment that is worth having, ideally leave 1-7 days ideally between sessions. You can allow up to a maximum of 15 days between sessions, as with treatment less frequent than 15 days, treatment efficacy decreases fast.

Extremely high intensity RF

Finally, with destructive RF, i.e. the one that burns your skin from inside to hopefully become tighter later (good luck with that…) and requires the use of anaesthetic cream, you must allow 3-6 months between sessions.

But this is problematic and produces frequent adverse reactions for the little results it produces, so we wouldn’t recommend it at all.

How often can I do radio frequency on my face, stomach or thighs at home? Can I use portable RF everyday?

Home RF machines are by definition extremely weak, in order to protect the public from itself.

If a company sold a proper RF machine to the general public, there would be injuries and burns within days from overzealous people who want to apply RF every day, for long periods at maximum intensity, for “faster results” (believe me, there are millions of obsessed people out there).

However, if one uses proper RF at too high intensity / too often, instead of faster results you will have just injury.

So government regulations do not allow for home use anything more than toy levels of RF power, making such “portable RF” or “home RF” machines almost useless.

Furthermore, even if such regulations did not exist, no company would risk lawsuits within months of putting such a product on the market, from overeager customers.

In summary, using an RF machine every day, more than once a day or too intensively (e.g. on a small area of skin for a protracted period of time) is not advised, for both safety and effectiveness reasons.

The best advice is go to a reputable therapist at a reputable clinic and have a professional treatment with a gap of 1-15 days between sessions. You will have much better results and you will save a lot of time, instead of wasting money on useless gadgets.

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At LipoTherapeia we have specialised 100% in skin tightening and cellulite reduction for more than two decades and 20,000+ sessions.

This is all we study and practise every day and have researched and tried hands-on all the important skin tightening equipment and their manufacturers.

As strong, deep acting radiofrequency and deep-acting, high-power ultrasound cavitation are the technologies of choice for skin tightening and cellulite reduction, we have invested in the best RF/ultrasound technologies in the world.

Furthermore, over the last two decades we have developed advanced RF and cavitation treatment protocols in order to make the most of our technologies, for maximum results, naturally and safely.

Our radiofrequency/ultrasound treatments are comfortable, pain-free, downtime-free, injection-free, microneedling-free, 99.5%+ safe and always non-invasive.

And our focus is on honest, realistic, science-based treatment, combined with caring, professional service, with a smile.

We will be pleased to see you, assess your cellulite, skin laxity or fibrosis, listen to your story, discuss your case and offer you the best possible treatment.

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