Treatment Guide
Glacial® Gloss Facial
A UK First: What Is Glacial® Gloss?
Eva Clinic is proud to be the first clinic in the UK to offer Glacial Gloss — a facial delivered using the Glacial® fx precision cooling platform, developed by Glacial® Skin, and previously unavailable anywhere else in the country. It’s our gentle welcome facial: the perfect introduction to the clinic for new clients, or a soothing reset for anyone who wants glowing, calmer skin without any heat, chemicals, or downtime. Using patented Cryomodulation™ technology, Glacial Gloss works with your skin rather than against it, making it a genuinely relaxing, spa-like experience that still delivers real, visible results — and one you won’t currently find at any other UK clinic.
Our Glacial fx machine is newly arriving from the USA — please get in touch to check current availability before booking, or register your interest and we’ll contact you as soon as appointments open.
How Cryomodulation™ Works
Rather than heating the skin (as many resurfacing treatments do) or relying on suction and extraction, Glacial Gloss uses controlled cooling to calm inflammation, tighten the appearance of pores, and support a more even, radiant skin tone. The cooling effect helps reduce redness and puffiness immediately, while supporting the skin’s natural barrier rather than disrupting it — making it one of the gentlest genuinely effective facials available, and a technology no other UK clinic currently offers.
Why Glacial Gloss Instead of a Traditional Facial?
Many popular facials rely on water-based vacuum extraction, chemical exfoliation, or heat-based technology — all of which can be excellent for some skin types, but aren’t always the right fit for sensitive, reactive, or rosacea-prone skin. Glacial Gloss takes a different approach entirely: no extraction, no chemical peeling agents, no heat. As the first clinic in the UK offering this technology, we’re able to give clients an option that genuinely wasn’t available anywhere else in the country until now — a comfortable, effective alternative for skin that’s found other “deep cleanse” style facials too intense.
What Glacial Gloss Can Help With
- Redness and skin sensitivity, including rosacea-prone skin
- Puffiness and tired-looking skin
- Enlarged pore appearance
- General radiance and glow, especially before an event
- Calming skin after more active treatments (such as laser or microneedling)
What to Expect: Your First Facial at Eva Clinic
Your Glacial Gloss session begins with a proper skin assessment, so your facial is genuinely tailored rather than one-size-fits-all — this is also a great opportunity to talk through any other concerns or treatments you might be curious about. The treatment itself is relaxing and comfortable from start to finish, with no discomfort, no redness afterwards, and absolutely no downtime — you can go straight back to your day looking refreshed, having experienced a treatment that, as of today, no other UK clinic can offer.
Who Is It Suitable For?
Glacial Gloss is ideal as a first treatment at the clinic, for anyone with sensitive or reactive skin, rosacea, or those who simply want an effective facial without any intensity or downtime. It also works well as a calming add-on after more active treatments like laser resurfacing or microneedling, helping the skin settle comfortably.
Glacial Gloss FAQs
Yes – Eva Clinic is currently the only clinic in the UK offering Glacial Gloss, using the Glacial fx precision cooling platform.
None – you can return to your normal routine immediately, with skin looking calm and refreshed rather than red or irritated.
HydraFacial-style treatments use water-based vacuum extraction and exfoliation, which suits many skin types well, but Glacial Gloss takes a gentler, cooling-based approach that’s often more comfortable for reactive or sensitive skin, while still delivering a genuine glow and calming effect.
Yes – it’s often used to calm the skin following more active treatments like laser resurfacing, Fraxel DUAL, or microneedling.
Initial improvement in skin texture is often visible within a week, with continued improvement over the following weeks to months as new collagen forms.
Yes – it’s one of the gentlest facials we offer, using cooling rather than heat, extraction or chemical exfoliation, making it particularly well suited to sensitive or rosacea-prone skin.
Cryomodulation™ — the controlled cooling technology behind Glacial Gloss — has genuine independent research behind its core mechanism, beyond manufacturer claims. A randomised, split-face clinical study published in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine (2024) found that a course of controlled cooling significantly reduced pain, redness and swelling following laser resurfacing, supporting cooling’s role in calming inflamed, treated skin. Separate laboratory research has shown precision cooling reduces the activity of pigmentation-related biomarkers in skin, offering a plausible mechanism for cooling’s brightening, more even-toned effect. A pilot clinical trial using a comparable precision cryotherapy device also found meaningful improvement in inflammatory skin lesions over a four-week course, with high patient satisfaction and no reported adverse effects.
It’s worth being transparent about one thing: some of the most striking published figures for Cryomodulation™ technology (such as a 92% improvement rate from a 600-patient trial) relate specifically to Glacial® Rx — a related but different, more intensive device from the same company as Glacial® fx, used for treating benign lesions and more targeted pigmentation concerns. Glacial Gloss, delivered on the Glacial fx platform, shares the same core Cryomodulation™ mechanism, but is a gentler, calming facial protocol rather than the more intensive Rx system — so it’s fair to describe the underlying technology as genuinely evidence-backed, without borrowing Rx-specific statistics for a Gloss-specific claim.
Sources: – Murray CA, et al. (2024), Split-face study to evaluate efficacy of global cryomodulation for reduction of pain and inflammation after nonablative fractional resurfacing, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/lsm.23721 (PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37661604/) – Effect of a Precision Cryotherapy Device with Temperature Adjustability on Pigmentation (PubMed) — laboratory evidence for cooling’s effect on pigmentation-related biomarkers: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36092232/ – Targeted precision cryotherapy for acne vulgaris (PubMed) — pilot clinical trial using a comparable precision cooling device: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39221850/ – Glacial® Rx clinical data (manufacturer, R2 Technologies/Glacial Skin) — cited for context only, relates to the related Rx device, not fx/Gloss: https://www.glacialskin.com/
Note: the Murray et al. (2024) study is genuinely independent, peer-reviewed research (not manufacturer-funded marketing material), and is your strongest citation — worth leading with this one specifically.
Professional consultation
Treatment compatibility is uppermost and I always undertake a professional consultation before undertaking Aesthetic treatments.
Please contact me on 07507 420244 to discuss any of my treatments and arrange an initial consultation.
