Improve acne scars, pigmentation spots,
stretchmarks, loose skin, cellulite and
wrinkles with our dermarolling package!

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Get our test-winning dermaroller (review) for $37,- (excl. worldwide shipping) incl. the best regenerative vit. A & D ointment we could find in medical literature, incl. a bag of medical-grade L-ascorbic acid (vit. C) crystals for a skin serum, incl. two custom-made single needles to deep-treat scars, wrinkles and stretchmarks.

Which needle length for dermarolling?

If you want to get rid of acne scars, cellulite, deep wrinkles, saggy skin or stretchmarks as much as possible, a 1.5 mm needle length is the only appropriate length, especially on thicker skin, on thinner skin 1.0 mm is best. Less, and it just doesn't work optimally. More than 1.5 mm is a bad idea, except on very thick skin. Hοrst Liebl, CEO of Dermaroller S.a.r.l. said: "Human dermis has an average thickness of 1.5 mm and new collagen forms only in the upper corium, about 0.5 mm below the epidermis. So why in this world to use 2.5 mm or even longer needles only to puncture the muscles underneath the skin? – it simply makes no sense."

Shallow wrinkles and pigmentation spots can be done with a 1 mm roller. Men have thicker skin than women, and a 1.5 mm roller is often the best choice. You can reduce rolling pressure for shallower needle penetration.

Wrinkles under the eyes: A special narrow roller ("3-liner") with a needle length of 0.5 mm to avoid possible damage to the eyeball. This roller can also be used on the upper lip, and to roll creams into individual stretchmarks to decrease their contrast over time. To deep-treat wrinkles on the upper lip or target individual stretchmarks, use an 1.5 mm narrow roller ("3-liner"). Read our detailed dermarolling instructions.

Penetration of skin products (also Minoxidil): A 0.5 mm roller. Such a roller also helps with pigmentation spots and improves skin texture. A 0.2 mm roller can only be used to roll in skin products but doesn't hurt and can be used two to three times a week.

A cheap dermaroller with textile-grade needles is unusable and causes skin injuries due to bending needles - which go blunt quickly. Medical-grade steel is mandatory. As we found, some vendors falsely claim to use medical steel. The needles of such rollers can break off under the skin. A good roller withstands alcohol and hot water, has an ergonomical handle that does not bend under pressure and a good way of protecting the needles under storage. We found the overall best dermaroller, for details see our dermaroller test. There are important factors in a dermaroller that are rarely mentioned, such as needle taper - important for easy skin penetration and long-term sharpness. We sell test winning dermaroller here. It has surgical steel needles.

You can't buy a Dermaroller™

The Swiss "Dermaroller S.a.r.l." holds a patent on their invention, and they own the registered trademark. They only sell them (expensively) to doctors. Ordinary people can only buy "pirate copies" made in Asia, and not all work well. A high price is no guarantee for quality. And the cheapest ones are disposable types, intended for single use only, but the vendors hide that fact.

Isn't it dangerous to roll with 1.5 mm needles?

No. With maximum pressure, the needles penetrate 1.3 mm and that is too shallow to be able to puncture all but cappilary veins (the occasional pin-point bleeding) or reach nerves. Sterilize the skin with disinfecting alcohol before dermarolling. After rolling you rinse the roller under hot water (you can even put ours in the dishwasher!) and soak it in disinfecting alcohol.

Then why do the original Dermaroller™ developers say it is dangerous to roll with a needle length of 1.5 mm?

The Swiss "Dermaroller S.a.r.l." spent very much money on the international patenting of their invention (the dermaroller) but they discovered that SE Asian companies sold cheap copies. They changed business strategy and now only sell to medical clinics, and enforce their patents to them. This is why they discourage home-rolling. The only roller they'll sell you has a 0.2 mm needle length and does not induce collagen formation at all. They tell you to visit the clinics instead, where you pay hundreds of dollars for a single treatment session with their rollers. If everybody rolls at home with a cheap "pirate copy" of "their" roller, they will go out of business.

Won't 1.5 mm needles hurt?

Depending on what part of your body you roll, using no topical anesthetic can be quite painful - but you can get used to it. I have used a 1.5 mm roller on my thigh without numbing the skin and it was quite painful, but bearable. Topical anesthetic creams are often available prescription-free in the pharmacy but by far the overall best solution is an ice pack (or a small PET bottle with ice). Move it over your skin for a while, taking care not to freeze your skin. This works very well and has no side effects. Alternatively, you can buy EMLA cream from our online store.

Our ointment: Why Vaseline and Retinol acetate?

We include a 30 g tube of a special Retinol Acetate (vit. A) ointment that also includes vit. D. It increases the turnover and formation of new collagen, elastin and skin cells and acts as a skin growth hormone. Note how we use the words "ointment" and "cream". We include an ointment. An ointment is a special type of cream with at least 80% oil - an more effective barrier against moisture loss and bacterial infection than a cream can provide. The creams available online aren't much suitable for micro-needling (dermarolling) because they have an alcohol-base that irritates the opened skin - such as Stearyl-alcohol, and instead of Retinol acetate they contain the harsh, etching, acidic Retinoic Acid. Our ointment does not contain alcohols. Those other creams are intended to treat "closed" skin - our ointment is used in burn centers to regenerate "open", damaged skin. You are "opening" your skin with many tiny holes, by dermarolling. So you shouldn't use a cream that's too acidic or contains an alcohol, for open skin. Our ointment can and should be used directly after rolling. Contrary to Retinoic acid, Retinol acetate does not burn open skin. It is slowly converted by the body's enzymes into Retinoic acid, avoiding the typical micro-damage and pain associated by directly applying Retinoic acid. This is why dermatologists prefer "our" type of ointment. for optimal skin rejuvenation. Research shows that skin-regeneration is optimal under anearobic, moist conditions, making a Vaseline ointment the only good choice. Tattoo experts agree. Our ointment is occlusive and contains non-allergenic Lanolin as well.

Why vitamin D?

Vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) has been shown to be a potent agonist of the Vitamin D receptor which stimulates glycosaminoglycan synthesis and transforming growth factor -beta 1 (TGF-beta 1), thereby accelerating wound healing. It is reported that Vitamin D2 promotes dermal wound strength and re-epithelialization as well as enhancing granulation tissue formation. The natural Lanolin in our ointment helps the vit. D enter the skin. The ingredients work like a symphony - leave one out and the result suffers. Dermatologists with an expertise in dermarolling say the ointment should contain vit. D.

Why vitamin C?

Vitamin C is essential for elastin- and collagen formation. To get a high concentration of this vitamin into the skin, you have to apply a 5% solution to the skin after rolling. This simple procedure is really necessary to get optimal results. We include 20 grams of pure vit. C crystals for this purpose to get you going until you found a pharmacy that sells it, if you need more. You can not use a vitamin C cream, you must make it yourself. This is from the book "Aesthetic Surgery of the Facial Mosaic" by Dimitrije E. Panifilov:

Why the special single needle?

To get the best results with bad stretchmarks, you should go to a depth from 2 to 2.5 mm, with more pricks per cm² than a 1.5 mm roller can achieve without turning the surrounding skin into mush. The only good solution is to use a single needle with 0.25 mm diameter and a long taper for easy, painless penetration. You literally crush the scar tissue. This technique is called "needle-abrasion". You only treat the scars, not the surrounding skin. Our needles are custom-made because ordinary tattoo needles have a too large diameter. The needle shaft is 15 cm / 6" long and thick enough to be held in the hand. The dermarolling results are excellent. We include two reusable needles.

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No more excuses - fix your skin now! You will receive top-quality, gamma-sterilized dermarollers with surgical steel needles. The rollers are 20 mm wide and have 192 needles. We also sell narrow rollers with fewer needles. Please read our included dermarolling instructions carefully. You can buy our rollers separately but when you buy our kit, we include an ointment with 0.1% Retinol acetate (vit. A) and 9000 i.u. vit. D2. Also included are two special-made single needles with a diameter of 0.25 mm. And included is 20 g / 0.7 oz of highly-dissolvable pure L - Ascorbic acid (vit. C) for a skin serum. We buy our vit. C from a pharmacy. We also sell 5% EMLA numbing cream. (30-gram tube for $ 16,-)