Shark CryoGlow review

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#	Product	Best for	FDA clearance	Price
1	Shark CryoGlow Best for acne and wrinkles together	combination concerns and under-eye puffiness	Located	Check price on Amazon #ad How we are funded

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160 tri-wick LEDs producing 480 light sources across red at 630 nm, blue, and infrared at 830 nm. Three selectable routines: Better Aging at six minutes, Skin Sustain at four minutes, and Skin Clearing. Under-eye cooling via Peltier elements and fans.

Shark does not publish a nanometer value for its blue channel, which is a small gap given that 415 nm is the figure the acne literature uses. It also does not publish irradiance, in common with almost everyone else here.

510(k) K242796, cleared 27 November 2024, applicant SharkNinja Operating LLC, product code OHS, Class II under 21 CFR 878.4810.

The indications are where it gets unusual. The device is cleared to emit energy in the red and infrared spectrum for lines and wrinkles, and in the red, blue and infrared spectrum for the treatment of mild-to-moderate inflammatory acne. Two distinct indications on one record.

Compare that to the Therabody TheraFace Mask, which carries 415 nm blue diodes and holds a clearance under the same product code that does not mention acne at all. Same technology, different regulatory position. If you are choosing a mask for acne, that distinction is the one that matters, and it is invisible unless you read the clearances.

Peltier elements cool the under-eye area while the session runs. It is immediate, physical and noticeable, and it is the thing owners mention before anything about light.

Two caveats. It is under-eye only - the rest of the mask is not actively cooled, so if you wanted a cool mask because heat triggers flushing, this is not it. And the cooling hardware, with its fans, is the reason the shell is rigid and heavy. The feature and the main drawback are the same engineering decision.

A rigid mask bridges the cheekbones and the sides of the nose rather than lying against them. Irradiance falls off with distance, so the areas standing furthest off receive the least light - and those areas are the outer eye and nasolabial region, which is where most people want treatment.

Nobody publishes the data that would quantify this, so we are reasoning from physics and saying so. It is still the strongest argument for choosing a flexible mask, and it applies to this device as much as to any other rigid one.

Most masks run one fixed cycle. The CryoGlow lets you pick a four-minute maintenance session on a weeknight and a six-minute one when you have time. Adherence is the dominant variable in whether any of this does anything, and a device that lets you do a short version instead of skipping entirely is solving the right problem.

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Best for acne and wrinkles together

Shark CryoGlow

Shark Beauty · Best for combination concerns and under-eye puffiness

K242796 is the broadest clearance we located in this category: red and infrared for lines, red, blue and infrared for mild-to-moderate inflammatory acne. The cooling is a genuine feature, and the rigid shell is the price you pay for it.

A rigid LED mask with an under-eye cooling plate, and the only device in this category whose 510(k) explicitly covers both wrinkles and inflammatory acne.

Specifications

Wavelengths	630 nm red, blue, 830 nm infrared
LEDs	160 tri-wick LEDs delivering 480 light sources
Irradiance	Not published by the manufacturer
Routines	Better Aging 6 minutes, Skin Sustain 4 minutes, Skin Clearing
Clearance	K242796, 27 November 2024, product code OHS

FDA clearance located

510(k) K242796 (CryoGlow FW3XXXX, cleared 27 November 2024, applicant SharkNinja Operating LLC, product code OHS). The indications cover red and infrared for lines and wrinkles, and red, blue and infrared for mild-to-moderate inflammatory acne.

What works

• A located clearance that names acne as well as wrinkles, which almost none of this category does
• Under-eye cooling is a genuine feature, not a spec-sheet filler
• Three selectable routines instead of one fixed cycle

What does not

• Rigid shell does not conform to the face the way silicone does
• No published irradiance
• Heaviest and bulkiest option here

Specifications from FDA 510(k) K242796; Shark product listing, checked 13 October 2026.

• Anyone with a narrow face or a prominent nose bridge. A rigid shell either fits you or it does not, and it will not adapt.
• Anyone for whom heat is a trigger. Under-eye cooling is not whole-face cooling. The rosacea page covers this.
• Anyone who wants the device to be light and packable. It is neither.
• Anyone treating lines only. A flexible two or three-wavelength mask delivers light closer to the skin and costs less.