{"id":1047363,"date":"2024-02-27T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=1047363"},"modified":"2024-02-27T20:37:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T20:37:19","slug":"blue-light-therapy-has-soared-as-a-popular-blemish-treatment-doctors-weigh-in-on-whether-it-really-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/beauty-fashion\/blue-light-therapy-has-soared-as-a-popular-blemish-treatment-doctors-weigh-in-on-whether-it-really-works","title":{"rendered":"Blue light therapy has soared as a popular blemish treatment &#8212; doctors weigh in on whether it really works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Complexion got you feeling blue? TikTokers swear by blue light therapy for their skin to reduce acne and boost collagen production, and &#8212; unlike some other online skincare trends &#8212; experts say this one works. Not to be confused with red light therapy &#8212; which has anti-aging properties and is touted by celebrities donning their Hannibal Lecter-esque LED face masks &#8212;&#160;blue light therapy can prevent and treat blemishes caused by bacteria. The painless devices emit blue-light waves from 380 to 500 nanometers, which penetrate the skin and destroy the particular bacterium, P. acnes, responsible for breakouts. &#8220;The wavelengths are able to reach only&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complexion got you feeling blue? TikTokers swear by blue light therapy for their skin to reduce acne and boost collagen production, and &#8212; unlike some other online skincare trends &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty-fashion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}