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.
They can also be known as liver posts or even sun spots and are technically known as lentigines. They vary in color from red to brown to black and are called liver spots sometimes because it was suspected in the past that they revealed liver damage, though that isn’t the case.
This is now discredited though.
The first thing to say about age spots though, is that they shouldnt be confused with melanoma, or skin cancer. Whilst liver spots are harmless melanoma is far from harmless, and so if you suffer from brownish or black spots on your skin, either on your face or anywhere, you should always consult your doctor first.
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 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 several options. Some medical. You could, for example, try laser therapy for age spots, though that seems a little unnecessary and may not be successful. Or they can be removed by cryotherapy or the use of extreme cold through, for example, the application of dry ice. In both cases I’d suggest the first stop is at your doctor.
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.
The reason is the effects of vitamin E. Vitamin E has many anti oxidant and other properties that make it very beneficial to the skin. Of course you’d be aware that many skin care products already contain vitamin E, but usually a synthetic version that is not particularly effective, and usually in very low concentrations.
Why is it in those products? So that they can put “Vitamin E” on the label to sell more product.
The very best natural skin care products in the world use a natural form of vitamin E that is way more effective and is added at a much higher concentration.
That’s the basics of age spots, or liver spots or sun spots if you prefer. You don’t need to remove sun spots, but you may want to. But always talk to your doctor first. But remember if it’s age spots and not melanoma that you’ve got there are excellent natural skin care products producing excellent results on age spots. It beats laser therapy.
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