What are these Dark Spots on my Skin?
If your idea of a vacation is a long day at the shore, you may have experienced some changes in your skin tone with the passing of the years. What are those strange, freckle-like spots that appear on the skin after sun bathing? You might be among the many unknowing victims of sun spots.
In order to explore treatment methods, you need to know how to identify these blemishes. Keep reading in order to learn how to identify and get rid of these pesky skin pigmentations.
Age spots, sun spots and liver spots - are they the same thing?
It's easy to get confused about sun spots, age spots and liver spots because these terms are just different ways to refer to the same thing. No matter what name they may have, the conclusions are the same: sun spots cause the skin look decades older than it should, making skin care products to fade age spots a necessary investment.
What are the primary characteristics?
Sun spots, age spots or liver spots are small freckle-like spots, usually brown or redish, that are most commonly found on exposed areas of the body like the face, hands and shoulders. Liver spots range in color and can even be blackish - something that depends on the individual case and skin tone. Sun spots are essentially pigments in the skin that have been damaged by the sun, causing the skin to look aged and/or worn.
What are the most common ways of removing sun spots, age spots and liver spots?
Sun and age spots can fortunately be removed using simple medical procedures, cosmetic treatments and certain aging skin care products. People interested in skin renovation should investigate the different types of skin renovation programs available. Microdermabrasion, Laser Surgery, Chemical Peels and Bleaching Creams are among the most common age spot remover techniques.
Sun spots are a result of skin sun damage. Hyper-pigmentation and spotting happen when over-exposure to the sun causes the skin's melanocytes - or cells located in the epidermis - to mismanage the body's melanin (pigment) production. Melanocytes produce the pigments that cause you to sun tan.
The problem occurs when melanocytes act up and make an excess amount of the melanin pigment. The excessive amount of melanin leads to age spots and sometimes melasma.
In conclusion, concerns about sun spots are mostly cosmetic, because the majority of them are not a health threat. However, average person's eye cannot distinguish skin cancer from harmless dark spots. It is therefore of vital concern that you see a dermatologist to ensure that any sun spots you may have are not cancerous.
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Published April 18th, 2009
