We have many products in the market that are promoted as brightening and improve pigmentation, but you probably don’t pay enough attention to the ingredients. Some of them can be found in nature, and other ones can be synthetic, but the goal and effects are the same, improving hyperpigmentation.
Knowing your pigmentation ingredients will help you choose the right product and is also mandatory when you are preparing your skincare routine because some of them cannot be combined between them or with other ingredients that we usually apply to our skin.
Here we mention the top 10 ingredients you can use to improve your hyperpigmentation and where do they come from:
- Sunscreen: It is the key ingredient for hyperpigmentation. Choose a broad-spectrum product and use it daily; make sure it is at least SPF 30.
- Retinoids: Also known as Vitamin A, inhibits melanin production by inhibiting tyrosinase. Initially, use it with low concentrations and then increase them when your skin feels comfortable with it.
Find it naturally in beef liver, liver sausage, lamb liver, salmon, among others.
- Azelaic Acid: In combination with retinoids can imitate the effects of Hydroquinone.
Find it naturally in whole grain cereals and animal products.
- Hydroquinone: It is the most used to treat pigmentation like melasma, but it cannot be continuously used due to side effects.
- Niacinamide: It is known as Vitamin B3. It is the best product to repair and renew your skin barrier and, at the same time, inhibits pigmentation production.
Find it naturally in milk, eggs, cereal, greens. And is produced naturally by the body from tryptophan.
- Tranexamic Acid: Works targeting the vascular component of melasma and decreases chances of pigmentation.
- Arbutin: Has a similar function to Hydroquinone; hence it is considered “the natural hydroquinone.”
Find it naturally in wheat, bearberry, pear skins.
- Kojic Acid: Works blocking pigment production and improving scarring.
Find it naturally in fungi, rice wine, Japanese sake.
- L-Ascorbic Acid: It is the famous Vitamin C, is the brightening and antioxidant ingredient by excellence.
Find it naturally in citrus fruits like oranges, also strawberries, broccoli, potatoes, and brussels sprouts.
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