What pre-treatment is required before receiving IPL?

There's really no pre-treatment that goes into IPL, or Intense Pulsed Light. However, you need to be careful about going into the sun prior to the IPL treatments because the sun can obviously either lighten or darken your skin. And the IPL machine can either lighten or darken your skin. So you really need to be careful about being tanned before having an IPL treatment. You should check with your MediSpa and check with your doctor in terms of how long they'd like you out of the sun prior to the IPL treatment.