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How To Remove Brown Age Spots - For Beautiful, Even Toned Skin

By: Larry Taylor Home | Cancer | Skin-Cancer


How to remove age spots, liver spots or brown spots is not that hard once we know what causes them. Any effort to remove these brown spots on the skin will only be successful if you take the necessary precautions to prevent them from reappearing. Let's look at the causes and what to do for even toned, beautiful skin.

The term â€liver spots†is actually a misnomer. They have nothing to do with the health or function of the liver, but at one time they were believed to. The name simply stuck. So, some people still refer to these black, red or brown spots as liver spots.

What Causes Age Spots

In most cases, liver spots and other brown spots are caused by overexposure to the sun. A similar condition, known as melasma, occurs during pregnancy and sometimes in women taking birth control pills. It can also occur when a menopausal woman takes hormone replacement therapy. In any case, the underlying cause is overproduction of melanin.

Why Remove the "Spots"?

The only reason to try to remove age spots is to improve the skin’s appearance. They are not indicative of poor health, although they do indicate that your skin’s health has been damaged somewhat over the years, probably by free radicals. So, instead of simply trying to reduce brown spots on the skin, you might want to try to improve the skin’s overall health. Free radical damage can change a healthy cell into a cancerous growth.

Removal Cautions

Creams designed to remove age spots often inhibit melanin production, but this means that the surrounding area will fade, as well. Melanin is responsible for the skin’s color and it also provides protection against UV damage in the deepest of the skin’s layers. In other words, melanin is important to the skin’s health. Using any product that inhibits melanin production requires that you take precautions to protect the area from sunlight.

Prevention of Age Spots

It is well known that antioxidants prevent free radical damage and may prevent liver spots. Using creams containing natural vitamin E, for example, is known to prevent them. But, can antioxidants help remove age spots? Assuming they were caused by UV rays or pollution, the answer is â€yesâ€.

Remove Age Spots - SAFELY

Studies have shown that the use of creams containing coenzyme Q10 reverses sun damage over the course of six weeks. COQ10 does not inhibit melanin production. It simply repairs the damage done to the melanin producing cells. It is believed that the reason for this uneven pigmentation is damage to those cells done by free radicals.

If you want to reduce brown spots and lighten the skin’s pigmentation a shade or two, you can look for a cream that contains Cyperus rotundus extract. This extract safely inhibits melanin production.

Over the course of a few weeks, you can remove age spots with a cream that contains COQ10, cyperus rotundus and the protein keratin. Keratin stimulates the production of new cells, which will be lighter in color. As they work their way to the surface, the spot will start to fade. For information on a safe and effective Natural Whitening Day Cream to even out skin tone, please see my website listed below. Thanks, Margaret Bell


Please visit http://www.XtendSkinCare.com for Margaret's recommended source to Remove Brown Age Spots and Wrinkles for men and women that is guaranteed to be safe and effective. A FREE Health Newsletter is available.



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