The Complete PureLift Routine, Daily, Weekly and Monthly
Medically reviewed by
4 independent reviewers
Andrew Conrad Barile, PT, DPT
Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) | Licensed Physical Therapist (PT) | CEO and Founder, Xtreem Pulse LLC
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Dr. Andrew Conrad Barile is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and the CEO and Founder of Xtreem Pulse LLC, the engineering company behind PureLift. He earned his Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Daemen College and is a licensed physical therapist.
He brings over two decades of clinical and entrepreneurial experience across physical therapy, craniosacral therapy and medical device innovation, built on a working knowledge of human anatomy and muscle physiology.
For PureLift LAB he reviews how current is delivered across all ten levels, from sub-sensory nanocurrent and skin-level microcurrent to motor-level EMS, and how the Infuse pass fits into the same ten-minute routine.
Bertica M. Rubio, M.D.
Board-Certified Physician, Dartmouth Medical School | Medical Director, Antiaging Regenerative Medicine Clinic
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Dr. Bertica M. Rubio is a board-certified physician and Medical Director of the Antiaging Regenerative Medicine Clinic in Redlands, California. She earned her Doctor of Medicine from Dartmouth Medical School and completed her pediatrics residency at UC Irvine Medical Center.
With decades of clinical experience, she specialises in age management medicine, regenerative medicine, wound healing and growth factor therapies, and her practice integrates evidence-based medical science with advanced aesthetic treatment.
For PureLift LAB she reviews articles for medical accuracy across the whole dial, from the gentle nanocurrent and microcurrent settings through to muscle-level EMS and the Infuse pass.
Daniel Grinberg, MD, FACS
Board-Certified Otolaryngologist | Head and Neck Surgeon | Fellow, American College of Surgeons | Mount Sinai
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Daniel Grinberg, MD, FACS is a board-certified otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon at ENT and Allergy Associates in West Nyack, New York. He earned his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
He completed his otolaryngology residency at New York University Medical Center, serves as Assistant Clinical Professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and is a Fellow of both the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Otolaryngology.
For PureLift LAB he brings a wider clinical lens, connecting at-home facial stimulation from microcurrent to EMS to the anatomy underneath, with the same rigour we apply to every device specification.
Prof. Dr. med. Ivo Buschmann
Chair of Angiology, Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg | Clinic Director, University Clinic for Angiology
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Prof. Dr. med. Ivo Buschmann is Chair of Angiology at the Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg Theodor Fontane and Clinic Director of the University Clinic for Angiology at the Brandenburg University Hospital.
He trained at the University of Hamburg, was a Max Planck Society Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, and held senior consultant posts at the Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin before his appointment as Chair in 2016.
One of Europe's leading authorities on arteriogenesis, with over 150 peer-reviewed publications and US and EU patents, he reviews for PureLift LAB how the evidence on electrical stimulation is read and where its limits lie.
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Owning the device is the easy part, and the routine is what turns it into a result.
This article walks through the routine step by step, such as:
- Before you start
- The Lift pass, three minutes each side
- The Infuse pass
- How often
- Adjusting for the day
and many more!
Every figure here applies to all five models, since the routine does not change up the range.
Key Points:
Three minutes on each side, then the Infuse pass, about ten minutes in total, and the device switches itself off.
Four sessions a week is the target, and the research protocols ran daily for twelve weeks.
The right level is the lowest one that produces a clear, comfortable, visible contraction.
On a reactive day, drop to level 1 or 2 rather than skipping the session.
Judge progress on photographs twelve weeks apart, not on the mirror each morning.
Before you start
Cleanse and dry the face, because anything left on the skin sits between the probe and you.
Apply a water-based conductive serum generously, until the surface looks wet rather than damp, since oil-based products do not conduct and will make the whole session feel weak.
Any water-based serum works, including the one already on your shelf, and a bottle of Activator Serum ships with every device to start you off.
Tie hair back and take off earrings, and if you wear contact lenses there is no need to remove them.
The Lift pass, three minutes each side
Start at level 1 for the first thirty seconds to let your skin settle, then bring the level up until you can see the cheek or jaw answer in the mirror.
That visible contraction is the target, and the correct setting is the lowest one that produces it comfortably, which on a PureLift means level 3 or above since the motor threshold sits at level 3 on every model.
Work upward and outward, from the jaw toward the ear and from the cheek toward the temple, in slow continuous passes rather than skating across the face.
Move slowly enough for each contraction to complete, keep the probe flush with just enough pressure to stay in full contact, and reapply serum the moment the glide changes.
Three minutes on one side, then three on the other, and if a session runs short that is still a real session rather than a failed one.
The Infuse pass
Switch to Infuse with the serum still on, and this second pass runs two delivery technologies rather than one.
Infusion is built on electroporation, where brief pulses open temporary routes through the skin's outer barrier (Prausnitz 1993), and iontophoresis uses a gentle current to move charged ingredients inward through those routes.
This is the point to use the serum you actually care about, since the pass supports absorption of whatever is already on your skin.
Infuse is on all five models including PureLift Face at $499, so nobody in the range is missing this step.
How often
Four sessions a week is a realistic target that most people sustain, and the research protocols that produced measured results ran daily across twelve weeks.
Daily is fine if you want it and you are staying at a comfortable level, and it is not necessary.
Twice in one day is not better, longer than three minutes a side is not better, and pushing toward the top of the dial is not better, since past a visible contraction more output adds discomfort rather than results.
The session you finish four times a week beats the punishing one you quietly stop doing, which is the whole argument for a modest protocol.
Adjusting for the day
On a reactive day, after a bad night, or in the week following a facial, drop to level 1 or 2 rather than skipping, since nanocurrent and microcurrent sit below the point where a muscle contracts.
Being able to turn down instead of skip is the practical reason a device with the gentle levels on the same dial is worth having.
Skip the session entirely over broken skin, an active rash, sunburn or any inflamed area, and stop immediately if anything stings rather than tingles.
If you have had botulinum toxin or filler, the timing decision belongs to the person who treated you.
Monthly, tracking it properly
Photograph your face on day one in even light, at a fixed distance, with a neutral expression, straight on and at a three-quarter angle.
Repeat monthly, matching camera, distance, lighting, expression and time of day, because a morning shot taken close on a wide-angle phone lens and an evening shot from two metres away will show two different faces that have not changed.
Do not judge by the mirror in between, since sleep, salt and fluid move your face day to day enough to drown any real signal.
Kavanagh 2012 measured its first clear difference at six weeks and a larger one at twelve (Kavanagh 2012), so twelve weeks is the honest first checkpoint.
Looking after the device
Wipe the probe after every session, since dried serum on the contact surface is one more layer between the device and your skin.
Store it dry and out of the bathroom steam, and charge it when it asks rather than leaving it flat for weeks.
Anyone with a pacemaker or another implanted electronic device, anyone pregnant and anyone with epilepsy or a seizure disorder should not use it at all.