At Sapelo Skin Care we know the beauty and wonder of the human body’s ability to heal and repair from injury. Our scientific formulations exemplify our philosophy of replicating the body’s natural rejuvenating process.
What makes Sapelo unique is that we copy and infuse the cascade of healing peptides and molecules of the immune system in response to injury.
In distinct contrast, the prevailing trends in skin care utilize injury to initiate rejuvenation. Blue light, lasers, abrasions, peels, micro-needling, retinoids and hydroxyls all create a form of injury that initiates a natural immune system response.
Why are these procedures and acids so prevalent and prescribed so often? It is easy to understand. When a cell is destroyed or damaged, your body recognizes the injury and calls on its immune system to repair the damage. Your immune system releases a cascade of peptides and molecules called cytokines. The cytokines work at the cellular level to signal the skin cells to initiate repair. All at the cost of damage to the very organ—your skin—one is wanting to rejuvenate.
How Conventional Treatments Work: The Injury-Recovery Cycle
Let’s look at the most common form of skin injury—ultraviolent radiation or UV damage caused by the sun. By now, everyone is educated about the importance of minimizing sun exposure. Yet in our youth, men, women, and children lived for days, basking in the sun, developing a lovely, bronzed complexion that made everyone look ‘sun kissed’ and feel healthy. But the underlying biologic response to UV injury is the body’s healthy immune response where the new collagen and elastin is manufactured to replace that which is damaged by the sun. The suntan is caused by an increase in the concentration of the skin pigment, melanin in the body’s attempt to create a physical barrier to further protect from UV damage. In the short run, sun exposure creates a more youthful appearance to the skin. But “all good things come to an end.” Your skin begins to slow down its healthy melanin functions and the skin does not tan nor behave as it did when you were young.
The Problem with Chronic Injury-Based Rejuvenation
While these treatments can provide short-term improvement, repeated cycles of injury and inflammation lead to:
• Collagen fragmentation and loss of elasticity
• Increased oxidative stress and free radical damage
• Impaired barrier function and chronic dryness
• Premature cellular senescence (aging or 'senile' cells that no longer function properly)
This is similar to the effects of chronic UV radiation exposure, where the body initially responds by producing new collagen and melanin, but over time, the skin’s ability to repair itself declines, leading to wrinkles, hyperpigmentation, and loss of firmness.
Sapelo’s Groundbreaking Approach: Healing Without Harm
At Sapelo we started by asking a simple question, “Can we reproduce a healthy immune response without first injuring the skin?” Our research informed us that many skin care products contained one or two peptides with studies confirming their ability to improve collagen and elastin and most importantly, the skin’s appearance.
Sapelo set out to research and produce a skin care system that replicated ALL of the bioactive cascade of peptides (called cytokines in immune terminology) initiated by the body’s immune system in response to skin injury.
The Transforming Growth Factor-Beta pathway exists as skin’s master signaling system to allow the skin cells to respond to the arrival of immune bio-active peptides at the surface of the skin cell. It instructs the machinery in the interior of the cell to manufacture new molecules of collagen and elastin. Each peptide sends a different and unique signal to the cell. Sapelo is loaded with the needed peptides and micronutrients and vitamins necessary for skin rejuvenation. ALL without the initial injury.
✅Stop inflammaging
✅ Improve skin health through cell turnover and tissue renewal
✅ Accelerate healing
✅ Stronger defense against environmental damage
At Sapelo, we do not harm, injure or kill any cells. Our 2-Step Skin Recovery System is scientifically designed to replicate the results of your MedSpa treatments by topically introducing similar cell-signaling molecules that are being released by the body’s immune system in response to injury. In fact, Sapelo can minimize the demange after controlled inflammation and then accelerate the healing process post treatment.
So, if you love your medspa treatments or can’t wait for your next dermabrasion, micro needling, acid peel, or laser treatment, get ready to fall in love with Sapelo Skin Care.
Our 2-Step Skin Recovery System is designed to mimic and enhance the skin’s natural repair process, whether used alone or in conjunction with MedSpa treatments.
Pre-Treatment Benefits (For those undergoing professional skin procedures)
• Prepares and fortifies the skin to reduce inflammation and oxidative damage.
• Enhances fibroblast activity, ensuring optimal collagen synthesis post-treatment.
• Reinforces the skin’s barrier, preventing trans-epidermal water loss (TEWL).
Post-Treatment Benefits (Accelerating healing after lasers, peels, microneedling, etc.)
• Delivers immune-modulating peptides to control excessive inflammation.
• Stimulates cellular repair without additional stress or irritation.
• Accelerates healing while maintaining long-term skin resilience.
