Look for these Ingredients in Your Anti-Pigmentation Skin Care Products | Aiconic Health
B2B (Back to basics skincare#101): When buying a skincare for facial pigmentation, watch out for these actives in your creams/ gel/ serums.
1) Tranexamic acid: inhibits melanin production and activity in skin which eventually leads to reduction of pigmentation.
2) Azelaic acid helps in hyperpigmentation especially due to acne, melasma etc although it doesn’t helps improve general skin darkness or depigmenting the normal skin.
3)Kojic acid: has anti-tyrosinase effect, so basically helps by cutting melanin synthesis. It was generally very well acceptable by skin, least irritation so can be used for long term.
4) Niacinamide: Getting a lot of limelight these days, niacinamide is a commonly found anti-pigmentation agent in skincare products. It works by inhibiting melanin transfer to skin cells hence work on pigmentation reduction. Bottomline of all ant-pigmentation skin care products is that they need to be used for long, minimum 3 months and should be well- tolerated by your skin.
