What are the Causes of Pigmentation and What are the Best Pigmentation Removal Treatments?

If there’s an overabundance of melanin in your skin, hyperpigmentation develops. Melanin is the pigment that provides the skin with its color and is generated by melanocytes. Melanocytes are naturally prompted to create more melanin if the skin in our body is exposed to the sun in order to defend our skin from sunburn. Hyperpigmentation happens if melanin synthesis is uneven, resulting in skin areas that seem to be darker than the skin around them.
There are several types of hyperpigmentation, but the most common are sunspots and melasma. These disorders most often affect sun-exposed regions such as the neck, face, hands, décolleté, legs, and arms.
Skin Pigmentation Types
We will discuss a few typical forms of pigmentation that vary in appearance, etiology, and response to pigmentation removal treatments.
Melasma
Probably the most difficult kind of pigmentation to cure, melasma develops owing to a hereditary predisposition and is exacerbated by …
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