Age spots are annoying but harmless, but well known to many women in their later years. Although they can be harmless they certainly dont look good and so many women are interested in finding out more about what they are and how to get rid of them.
Age spots can also be known as liver spots or sun spots or, technically, lentigines. They are visible on the surface of the skin because they are discolored, being a brownish or blackish color, or possibly red. They are called liver spots sometimes because it was suspected that they were related to problems with the liver.
Now this link between liver spots and liver disease is discredited.
And you ought not confuse sun spots with melanoma. Age spots are harmless but melanoma isn’t and if you have any dark colored spots on your skin, either your face or any other piece of skin, get it checked out by a doctor.
What is the cause of liver spots? There are 2 simple causes, age and exposure to the sun. A combination of these two factors can result in the formation of liver spots. UV radiation is the component of sunlight that causes these spots. They are most commonly found on the face and neck, and back of the hands, because these are the areas of skin most commonly exposed to the sun.
Our skin pigments collect between the dermis and the epidermis and this collection of pigment is the sun spot. As we age our skin is less able to regenerate and repair the skin cells.
So the question is should we be removing age spots? Well the bottom line is that, once you’ve been to the doctor and he is happy, that you don’t need to remove age spots. They don’t do health damage.
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.
There is one other option. There are natural skin care products that are showing good results in removing age spots. If you are aging you ought to be using high quality skin care products anyway, and the best are now demonstrating an ability to reduce the appearance of facial spots as well. This is of course a slower process than a medical procedure.
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.
In most product it is mainly there so that the words vitamin E can be included on the label to sell the 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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