What Causes Black Pigmentation On Face

Posted on Sun, 23 Nov 2014

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Question : I have got black shades on my face. If I go out in the sun during the day, the shaded become more black and if I avoid sun the shades are lighter. But the shades are not fading completely. The shades are on forehead and in the temple areas of face. I am having this problem from around last 12 months. During this period for 1month I was posted in a Hill Station and at that time after around 20 days the shades had almost vanished. But after being back to home town the shades again appeared. My nature of work is back office with very low sun exposure. A slight increase in sun exposure increases the darkness to a very high level.

Answered by Dr. Dr. Rahul Kumar (54 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Skin lightening cream

Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for the query.
This hyper pigmentation can be removed by using skin lightening creams.
Various creams are available like melalite xl, lookbrite, Lumaglow etc.
You can take any of them.

The following should be procedure to use it.
1. Wash your face in evening around 7.
2. Dry face and apply cream all over your face.
3. Keep it for one hour.
4. Wash face again.
5. Apply some moisturising cream and sleep.
6. In morning apply a sunscreen with spf at least 30.

Do this for a month, you will see the results.

Let me know if you have any other doubts.
Thank you

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