Ejal 40: the sensible first injectable

There is a reasonable argument that most people considering their first injectable should start here. Not because Ejal 40 is the most powerful thing available, but because it answers a useful question cheaply: does your skin respond well to hydration delivered into the dermis rather than applied on top of it?

What it is

A hyaluronic acid skin booster. Hyaluronic acid is a molecule your skin already produces, capable of binding many times its own weight in water. Ejal 40 delivers it into the dermis in a form designed to hydrate rather than to hold structure.

The crucial distinction from filler: it is not cross-linked to hold shape. It will not create volume, define a feature or lift anything. It hydrates the tissue and improves how it reflects light.

What changes

• Skin that has looked flat and dull starts reflecting light properly again.
• Fine dehydration lines — the ones that appear late in the day and vanish after a good night — soften.
• Makeup sits better, which is often the first thing people notice.
• Skin feels less tight, particularly through winter.

What does not change: wrinkles caused by movement, laxity, pigmentation, or scarring. This is a hydration treatment and it stays in its lane.

The protocol

Three sessions, two to three weeks apart. Injected as a series of small deposits across the treatment area — a grid pattern rather than a few points. The appointment is 60 minutes including numbing.

You will have small raised blebs immediately afterwards, settling within a few hours. Occasional pinpoint bruising. Nothing that stops you going back to work, though most people prefer not to be photographed that afternoon.

First changes appear around two to four weeks. The result peaks after the third session and holds for roughly four to six months.

Cost

The course works out at about £133 a session and is how the treatment is designed to be taken. At £400 for a full course this is the most accessible booster course we offer, which is precisely why it makes a sensible starting point.

Ejal 40 or Profhilo?

The honest comparison. Profhilo is £430 for its two-session course and does something Ejal 40 does not: bio-remodelling, which improves firmness rather than only hydration.

• Under about 35, complaint is dullness — Ejal 40. You probably do not need the firming yet.
• Firmness has started to change, or the neck is showing it — Profhilo. Ejal 40 will disappoint you.
• Genuinely unsure, and cost matters — Ejal 40 first. If it delivers what you wanted, you have found your maintenance treatment at a third less per year.

Aftercare

• No makeup for the rest of the day.
• No rubbing or massaging the area for 24 hours.
• No sauna, steam or strenuous exercise for 24 hours.
• Daily SPF — hydrated skin still burns.
• Drink water. Obvious, but the treatment works by binding water and it needs some to bind.

Who it suits

Late twenties through forties, skin that looks tired rather than aged, anyone whose main complaint is dullness and tightness, and anyone curious about injectables who wants to start somewhere low-risk and low-cost. It is also a good maintenance treatment between more substantial courses.

It suits less: anyone expecting a visible change in wrinkles or firmness, and anyone hoping for a single dramatic session. It is a course treatment with a modest, pleasant result.