10/17/2025
Why Downtime Matters! 🙌🏼
Let’s talk about why we tell you to hold off on the gym, saunas, hot tubs, and yes, even happy hour 🍻 (!!!) after your treatment.
It’s not to make your life harder. It’s to protect your investment and help your body do what it does best:
HEAL!
When you get treatments like filler, chemical peels, microneedling, or vaginal rejuvenation, we’re creating controlled micro-injuries under the surface. That process triggers collagen production and tissue repair — but your skin is extra sensitive during this phase
Here’s why the aftercare rules matter:
1) No workouts or sweating:
Sweat and friction can push bacteria into freshly treated skin, causing irritation or inflammation. Think of your skin like a freshly aerated lawn; it needs calm, not chaos, to grow evenly
2) No pools, hot tubs, or baths:
Even “clean” water carries bacteria and minerals that can sneak into open pores and microchannels, risking infection or delayed healing
3) No heat or saunas:
Extra heat expands blood vessels, which can worsen swelling, redness, or bruising, especially after treatments like fillers, peels, or energy-based devices
4) No alcohol (for at least 24-48 hours):
Alcohol thins your blood and dehydrates the skin, which can increase BRUISING, prolong swelling, and slow recovery. It also makes it harder for your body to regulate inflammation which is the opposite of what you want while healing
In short: downtime IS NOT a delay, it’s PROTECTION.
Those few rest days let your skin seal, your collagen rebuild, and your results truly set in.
Because at Renova, we don’t rush results, we create them, protect them, and perfect them! 🤌🏼👩🏻🍳💋
