Face blotches: A full guide for their prevention and treatment

Do you have brown-yellow discolourations on your nose, chin, forehead, hands, or even on your feet? No need to panick!  They are probably blotches (medically known as melasmas), which, aside from their poor looks, do not indicate any serious health issue for your body.  

Even though their appearance often causes concern, these pigmentations do not cause pain or itching, so they rarely require lab investigation. But why do they appear on your skin?

The truth is that blotches are inextricably linked with UV radiation and tend to appear mostly during the summer when our body stays longer under the sun without proper sun protection for our phototype.  So, every time the sun penetrates our body, the melanocytes of our body sound the alarm and react by over-producing melanin. This excessive melanin is channelled unevenly into the skin, creating colour patches, either in the form of large blots or as small spots. Evidently, aside from the sun, heredity, as well as hormone disorders, may aggravate the problem.

So, if you look for useful tips that could help you get rid of them, check these out: 

• Adequate and proper sun protection is the be-all and end-all when it comes to blotch prevention.  Choosing a sunscreen with special filters and reapplying it regularly all over the body and face, wearing sunglasses, proper clothes and, naturally, staying under the shade are a good indication of how well you are protected from blotches. 
• Moreover, in Parapharmacie, on top of the most well-known branded sunscreen products, you will find specialised ranges against blotches, both for prevention and treatment. 
• A well-informed dermatologist will probably recommend a specialised product with regional pigment inhibitors, liquorice extract and vitamin C.  
• With the proper medical recommendation, you can also buy a dermatologically tested peeling product, which alleviates the pigmentation effect and guarantees the proper care of your body. 
  Along with the home-care solutions, you can choose to follow a sessions cycle with a professional cosmetician that will apply to your skin fully friendly, painless and complementary treatments, like laser therapy or peeling with acids and vitamin C.  

Remember that timely action ensures the best possible treatment of melasma. So, do not disregard them even if the spots on your skin are really small. The more those skin pigments are activated, the faster those spots will spread all over your skin.

In Parapharmacie you will find a great number of beauty products designed to prevent and treat blotches while protecting the health of your skin and guaranteeing its beauty and glow!