Evening Your Natural Skin Tone

An even tone to the skin is radiant and natural. We want our skin to be the best color and blend of tones that we have naturally been born with. Discolored skin, or uneven coloration to our skin is the root of much skin disatisfaction. Discoloration treatments may be one of the most active area of skin research,. For each what is "desirable" in skin color varies widely, and getting an even better tone is not the same as lightening, or even quite the same as brightening, for those qualities other techniques are employed! Think of skin tone, a color pops into your mind, but it's actually a blend of yellow, brown and reds that makes up classic "skin" color. We each have a blended tone: the yellow tones which mostly is derived from the collagen content, the brown tones which comes from the pigment melanin, and the red tones that come from hemoglobin, or more simply put the components of our blood.  As one or the other takes over the skin tone becomes uneven. Excess brown or dark patches is one of the most common reason for uneven tone, and are not desirable to most of us. Skin professionals can recommend products and treatments that reduce this in several ways, but ultimately one of the most successful ways to get rid of brown is to reduce the amount of melanin, by decreasing the amount of melanin produced in your skin. In addition to decreasing this melanin synthesis, we want to stop melanin from leaving skin cells and seeping into the skin, speedup the process of melanin exfoliation, and possibly even change the pigment melanin itself so it’s not so dark. Of course individual recommendations will vary based on your experiences, your unique skin, your hormone levels, and any reactions you may have had in the past. One such product to do these things effectively is hydroquinone. Hydroquinone will actually invade the skin cells or the melanocytes, and aid their destruction. It comes in various strengths and when we recommend a product we want one that will be effective. Natural products, that probably have better safety records to their ingredients, include  kojic acid arbutin, coffeeberry, blueberry, licorice, pulp mulberry, bearberry extract,  to name a few,and most important thing is sunscreen, which will so prevent UVA from tanning us which simply means stimulating these discoloration factors we are working rather hard to combat!