How to get rid of your Age Spots

A. What are Age Spots?

Age spots — they are also called liver spots. They are flat, gray, brown or black spots. Our skin has melanin pigment which absorbs sunlight and helps naturally protect our skin from UV rays.

However as we age, our skin's natural ability to fend off UV rays from the sun begins to deteriorate, and we see the development of age spots.

They vary in size and usually appear on the face, hands, shoulders and arms — the areas that are most commonly exposed to the sun*.

Though age spots are very common in adults older than age 40, they can affect younger people as well.

True age spots are harmless and do not required treatment, but they can appear like cancerous growths.

B. 2 Ways to remove AGE SPOTS

For cosmetic reasons, age spots can be lightened with skin-bleaching products or removed.

To prevent having age spots on your skin, avoid direct exposure to the sun and use sunscreen.

p.s Tanning our skin in the hot sun is the most direct way to kill our skin, tan skin is not healthy skin and the tan colour on our skin is telling us our skin has been damaged.

As we undergo UVA and UVB light exposure from the sun’s rays or from tanning beds, we are damaging our skin, which will lead to age spots (solar lentigines), sun spots, liver spots, poikiloderma (reddish–brown areas of discoloration) and melasma (mottled brownish areas).