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Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:22 am  |
Hello there. How can you stop the make of melanine, that can cost hyperpigmentation. I have read that when there is to much melanine at one place, then that is how hyperpigmentation exsist. Now how can you reduce the make of to much melanine?  |
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Sat Jun 04, 2005 6:55 am |
You reduce the production of melanin (the skin's natural defence mechanism against the sun's rays) either by staying out of the sun (especially between 10 am and 4 pm) or by using sunscreen. Then it gets more complicated because you have to find the right sunscreen. See long and complicated thread here
http://www.essentialdayspa.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=6346
If you mean you already have hyperpigmentation - overproduction of melanin in places resulting in uneven patches of tanned/freckly skin on your face then you can use a number of things to try and reduce it. Exfoliation and regular use of antioxidants such as Vitamin C is one way, but there are others.
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Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:45 am |
Hi Molly. Yes that is what i mean, I already have hyperpigmentation. But exfoliation and vit c are meant for fade out I think, but not to make the melanin production less, or is it for make the production of to much melanin less also?  |
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Sat Jun 04, 2005 8:11 am |
| No, you're right that is to fade the hyperpigmentation you already have. The only way to avoid producing more melanin (as far as I've ever heard) is sun protection in all it's forms: hats, umbrellas, sunscreen etc, etc. |
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Sun Jun 05, 2005 6:07 am |
Ok. I hope that there is a product or another way to even the production of to much melanin, so that it will turn out to hyperpigmentation.  |
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Sun Jun 05, 2005 6:09 am |
| Has to be ( so that will not turn out to hyperpigmentation). |
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Sun Jun 05, 2005 6:41 am |
| But you shouldn't get overproduction of melanin unless you spend far too long in the sun and/or don't use sunscreen. Hyperpigmentation is where the melanin in your skin over-produces because of over-exposure to the sun. If you're careful you should be OK. I really don't think there is a product which can help you apart from sunscreen. |
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Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:42 am |
Thats weird, because I have never spend too much time in the sun and still have hyperpigmentation above my lips (looks like a mustage). And most of my friends dont have hyperpigmentation and spent more time in the sun then me and they do not wear hads, and I do not know if they use sunscreen, but I have hyperpigmentation since I was 12 and in that time they dont had alot sunscreens. It is now that i heard a lot about sunscreen and that there is so much sunscreen now. When I had ask my beautyspecialist about how it is that some people get easy hyperpigmentation and some not, she said that it also had to do with the structur of skintype. And my doctor has sad that sometimes there can be someting wrong with th melanin production and that when the melanin is build up to much at one place then you get hyperpigmentation, because of to much at one place and that the sun can make it worse (darker). And if the melanin production would be even spread (build up) then there is not so much chance of getting hyperpigmentation. And I think it is true, because my mother is now 52 and never wears sunscreen ( even though that I have said she has too) but she do not have hyperpigmentation and I know atleast from one friend of my that she dont wear suscreen and she also do not have hyperpigmentation. So it has something to do with the production in the skin also ( I think) and not only with sun. But you are right, that sun is a part of it. I have heard that md formulation has something that reduces the production of to much, but I do not know if it is a good product. I wish that i have a normal skin, hopefully I will get it one day!!!  |
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Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:35 am |
Hi Pipilover
You're right. It seems that some people and some ethnic groups tend to get uneven distribution of melanin, although it still takes the sun to trigger it - you don't have to overexpose your skin to make it appear.
I just came across this while I was reading about melanin for other reasons
http://www.greatskin.com/nl/nl_304.htm
If you read down you'll see Kojic acid is a “tyrosinase inhibitors,” meaning they block the melanocyte’s ability to produce melanin"
So that might work for you, but you'd better be extra careful about sunprotection if you're not producing any melanin. |
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Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:19 am |
Thanks Molly for the info. Silly question maybey, but what will happen if the skin would not produced any melanin. Because I just want it too be less, so that it wont become hyperpigmentation again.  |
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