The reasons of color spots formation include heredity, endocrine disorder of human body, slowing of metabolism, dry and aging skin, sun exposure, ultraviolet radiation, improper use of stimulating cosmetics and drugs, lack of sleep and body fatigue.
2. What are the types of color spots?
There are totally two kinds of color spots. The first kind is the pigments produced by the human body itself, such as the melanin produced by melanocytes in the skin. These spots are in different colors due to the depths of the melanin in different areas. They are black or brown in the epidermis, grayish blue in the superficial layer of dermis and cyan in the deep layer of dermis.The endogenous pigments also include lipid pigment, bile pigment and so on.
And the other kind is exogenous foreign pigments including carotene and carotenemia, and skin pigmentation caused by drugs, heavy metals and foreign bodies like tattoo, silt, scum and coal cinder
Specifically, color spots are divided into nevus of Ota, freckles, age spots, cafe-au-lait spots, chloasmas, nevus fuscocaeruleus zygomaticus, black moles, tattooing, eyebrow tattooing, eyeliner tattooing, lip tattooing or artificial color spots caused by scratch or besmirch.
3. Are there any folk remedies for color spots removal?
a. Squeeze a fresh carrot into juice and apply 10 to 30ml of it to the face after cleaning in the morning and the evening. And then remove it when it gets dry. In addition, drinking a glass of carrot juice daily can help whiten skin.
b. Squeeze a lemon into juice, add some sugar to it and then drink it.
c. Drink a glass of tomato juice every day or eat tomatoes often.
d. Add 1 to 2 teaspoons of vinegar to the water before cleaning your face with the water.
e. Take a piece of Vitamin C and Vitamin E every day.
f. Apply the peel of eggplant on your face often and the color spots will become less obvious after some period.
4. Who can easily suffer from color spots?
Those with endocrine disorders, dry and aging skin, too much sun exposure or improper work and rest.
5. Where do color spots mostly appear?
They commonly appear on the exposed area of skin, and can also be seen on the unexposed area of the whole body.
6. Will color spots vanish by themselves?
They won’t fade away on their own generally. But they can be lessened by taking in more Vitamin C and E or removed by laser treatment.
7. Do color spots pose any threat to the body?
Not too much harm will be caused actually. But they may affect your beauty image if they’re on your face or other exposed areas of the body.
8. How to prevent color spots?
a. Take in more fresh fruits and vegetables that are abundant in Vitamin C and E to make the melanin inhibited or reduced to colorlessness.
b. Pay attention to the collocation of food, vegetables containing high photosensitive materials like celery, carrot and cilantro are best to be eaten at dinner. Don't expose yourself under strong light after eating to avoid the pigmentation of melanin.
c. Try to “insulate yourself from heat” as much as possible. Holding an umbrella and wearing a sunhat when going out in summer.
d. Females with color spots on their faces should pay more attention to menstrual maintenance.
e. Avoid skincare products of poor quality since the pigments or preservatives they contain can invade into the inner layers of skin and accelerate the production of facial color spots once mixed with sweats.
f. Ensure enough sleep every day as tiredness will lead to tense and fatigued skin, meta-acid blood and slower metabolism, consequently causing color spots.
9. How is the treatment effect of removing color spots by laser?
The effect can be quite obvious. It's safe treatment with low pain, no scar and it can make your skin smooth and white.
10. Will color spots removal by laser hurt the skin?
No, it won’t. Laser can penetrate the skin, directly act on the color spots and take heat effect to kill them, thereby eliminating the spots without damaging the skin.
11. Can I immediately see the effect of color spots removal by laser?
Well, it takes about 10 days after the laser treatment for the fragments of color spots to be completely removed outside your body.
12. Will the treatment effect of color spots rebound?
Color spots removal by laser is a kind of spot removal treatment that can directly reach the nidus. An ideal effect can be achieved without rebounce as long as your take the treatment based on the course of treatment in coordination with the doctor and receive postoperative nursing.