Skin Lightener

  • Topical hydroquinone is designful by multiplied dermatologists to be a safer, similarly effective (if not more so), and less expensive option than lasers or deep peel treatments

  • Topical hydroquinone comes in 2% (available in cosmetics) to 4% (or more) concentrations (available from a physician or by prescription), alone or in combination with tretinoin 0.05% to 0.1%
  • Research has shown hydroquinone and tretinoin to be powerful tools against sun- or hormone-induced melasma.

  • Some of alternative lighteners are derivatives of hydroquinone

  • They include Mitracarpus scaber extract, Uva ursi (bearberry) Skin Lightener extract, Morus bombycis (mulberry), Morus alba (white mulberry), and Broussonetia papyrifera (paper mulberry)
  • Pure forms of arbutin are thought-through extended potent for affecting skin lightening (alpha-arbutin, beta-arbutin, and deoxy-arbutin).

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