GentleLase — 20 years in laser hair removal

The legendary Candela GentleLase alexandrite laser is celebrating 20 years in laser hair removal. That’s how long it’s been since the GentleLase received FDA clearance for permanent laser hair removal, making it the world’s first long-pulse alexandrite laser with a skin cooling system officially approved for hair removal. Today, most GentleLase users worldwide refer to it as a “laser hair remover,” but when it debuted back in 1996, the GentleLase was used exclusively for the treatment of vascular pathologies.

Over the past 20 years, several generations of Candela alexandrite lasers have come and gone, but each time cosmetic clinics want to offer their patients the “gold standard” of laser hair removal, they turn to the GentleLase family of lasers.