Getting Rid Of Age Spots.
Age spots are something that bedevil many women, and men, as they get older. They are mostly harmless, but are unsightly, so for many women finding out how to remove age spots is important.
Age spots can be various colors though normally brownish or black, sometimes red. They are sometimes called sun spots or what is technically known as lentigines, and have been known as liver spots because in the past it was thought, incorrectly, that they were a sign of liver disease.
This is now discredited though.
You shouldn’t confuse age spots with melanoma, or skin cancer, though they can look similar. Age spots are harmless but melanoma certainly isn’t, and if you have dark colored spots on your face or any other part of your body you ought to have them looked at by a doctor.
So what causes age spots? There’s 2 simple reasons, sun damage and age. The sun damages our skin and combined with advancing age the combination of these 2 factors means that for some we get spots on our face and neck and the backs of our hands, because those areas get most of the sun.
In the top layers of the skin between the dermis and the epidermis, as we age, our skin can form collections of skin pigment. As we age our skin cells are less able to regenerate and so these form visible spots on our skin.
So should we remove these sun spots? There’s a number of options, and one is to do nothing as long as a doctor has checked them out. From a health point of view it isn’t essential to remove age spots. They can stay if you wish.
You may want to remove them because they look unsightly though. For many women, and sometimes men, developing liver spots is concerning because they are so visible, particularly on the face. So how do you go about removing age spots?
There’s a number of options for removing age spots. Two medical ones are laser therapy and cryotherapy. Both are something you ought to talk to your doctor about.
And there is another option too. There are now some very good natural skin care products that are showing much promise in the removal of age spots. If you are aging the use of good quality skin care products is pretty much essential anyway and the best ones are now getting good results reducing the appearance of age spots.
In particular vitamin E is known to reduce the appearance of age spots because of its anti oxidant and other properties. Vitamin E is of course found in a wide range of skin care products for its many properties that are beneficial to the skin, however in most cases the form of vitamin E that is used is one that is not particularly effective, because a synthetic version is used, which is cheaper than a more effective natural vitamin E.
Why is it in those products? So that they can put “Vitamin E” on the label to sell more product.
The best natural skin care products do use a natural vitamin E made in Germany, and at a much higher concentration.
So there are the basics on liver spots, and removing age spots. If youre seriously concerned about them, sufficient to resort to a medical procedure then talk to your doctor. However there are now good results being achieved by users of high quality natural skin care products.
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