HOC therapy) may be able to offer if you’re able to work up the nerve.

Aestheticians are now harnessing HOC therapy’s effects and offering it as a treatment at their spas.

I stumbled upon this treatment after a relaxing, pore-cleansing facial atJoanna Vargas Skin Care Spain New York City.

A woman with her hair down and red lipstick next to a hyperbaric oxygen chamber

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What is hyperbaric oxygen chamber therapy?

Image Courtesy of Cleveland State University.

But what does pure oxygen (also known as O2) do for the skin?

A black and white photo of a chamber with tiny circular windows

Image Courtesy of Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.

Is this result sustainable long-term outside the chamber?

As the pressure began to rise, I watched the oxygen dial inside the pod, rise too.

I was even surprised at how fast the 60 minutes flew by.

A gray Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber in a room with tan carpet and white walls

I know what you’re thinking: Couldn’t that lymphatic drainage massage and somedewy skincarehave done the trick?

The inside of a white Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber with a woman’s legs showing her tan pants and white socks

Inside the chamber.