August 2010

Types of Skin Pigmentation – Birthmarks

August 31, 2010

It is often common to see birth marks and pigmentation on the skin of new born babies or shortly after they are born. These birth marks could be those that are hardly noticeable or those that are very prominent and disfiguring.  Birthmarks are either raised or flat, and they may come with varying shades of [...]

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Sun Damaged Skin:

August 30, 2010

How is it possible to treat sun damaged skin naturally? The exposure of sun can be so harmful for you skin and make your skin less attractive. In other words we can say that it is just like cooking process in which you skin can be cooked when ultra violet directly react on your skin [...]

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Marks Of Pregnancy (Melasma) On Various parts of the Body

August 28, 2010

Mask of pregnancy (melasma) or pregnancy stretch marks cannot be removed , they can only be covered up to a large extent especially by wearing make-ups , even make-ups used in this regard must be be those that will not harm the health of both the mother and the child. Make-ups and cover ups are [...]

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Hyperpigmentation and sun cream

August 27, 2010

Hyperpigmentation Hyperpigmentation can be caused by a number of factors and one of the most prominent of such factors is the damaging ultraviolet rays of the sun. Hyperpigmentation cause a lot of skin disorders and the commonest among such are ; sun spots, freckles, melasma, and moles. Aside being caused by sun rays, hyperpigmentation can [...]

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Skin Pigmentation | What Types Of Pigmentation Are There

August 26, 2010

Types of Skin Pigmentation Our skin normally pigments under the influence of melanin, a substance which protects the skin cells for UV radiation. Melanin also determines the skin color of an individual. But when melanin is overproduced or underproduced, the skin will be stained. There are many types of skin pigmentation according to their cause [...]

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Age spots – Herbal treatment

August 25, 2010

Most herbal age spot treatment therapies are often combined with some other forms of natural age spots treatment to remove effective those spots from the skin.  Many people still believe that most herbal remedies do not work for age spots, hence they must be combined with some other forms of treatment. Lemon juice for instance [...]

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Talking About Skin Pigmentation Disorders

August 22, 2010

Generally speaking, skin pigmentation is all about the coloring of one’s skin. Melanin, a substance produced by the body’s skin cells (melanocytes), determines what kind of skin color an individual will exhibit. The color of a person’s skin pigmentation depends mainly on his or her ethnic or racial origin as well as the extent of [...]

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How to treat skin pigmentation

August 20, 2010

All living things even if they are vertebrates of simple kind or human beings of complex kind have different colors and size and patterns that makes them different from each other. Pigmentation is commonly inheritable being controlled by three important factors, genetic, environmental and endocrine. Pigmentation is modulated by the melanin distribution and its amount [...]

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Illnesses causing Hyper pigmentation- Xeroderma pigmentosum

August 19, 2010

Xeroderma pigmentosum is an infection that occurs in people that are just too sensitive to sunlight. It is a rare occurring infection, and it occur in people  with premature skin ageing and people who are prone to skin cancer.  It is believed that people who suffer from Xeroderma Pigmentosum are those suffering from a genetic [...]

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Freckles on the Hand

August 18, 2010

Freckles which appear on the hand are quite easier to treat than freckles on the chest or face. They are characterized by some little round dark spots which often appear independently on in clusters . Freckles on the hand can probably come from the excessive exposure of the body to sunlight or some hereditary factors.  [...]

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