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by Karen Peery Karen Peery has 20 years experience in the newspaper and retail industries. For the past 8 1/2 years she has been an AVON Independent Sales Representative, certified beauty advisor, and top recruiter in her district since 1999. She is a mother and grandmother and enjoys helping people discover their beauty and second income needs. Karen currently resides in Iowa. |
Now is there anything cuter than a little redheaded child with cute little freckles on their face. Freckles can look very charming when scattered across the nose and cheeks, but if there is a heavy covering it can be unattractive. Brown spots and freckles are just small imperfection that can mar the mature skin and sometimes even younger skin. It is fairly simple to deal with them and their disappearance will do a lot for your appearance. Freckles are a cluster of cells that have accumulated too much melanin, the dark pigment of the skin. Usually they appear in childhood and persist until late middle age. Most often the sprinkles of freckles are seen on fair-skinned men and women. Some people think freckles are a product of genetics but they are actually a product of sun damage and usually from the past. They are best treated with dermabrasion or a mild superficial chemical peel. Freckles will return if the skin is exposed to the sun. This means a little freckled girl should be extremely careful about wearing a sunscreen protection daily. And of course, she should limit her sun exposure time and avoid any serious sunbathing. There are various commercial bleaching cream, lotions and masks advertised as freckle-removers. Beware as they may have very little value. The contents may be either lemon extract or mercury compounds. The mercury has more ability to dissolve melanin, it is extremely irritating to the skin. Lemon has only a small bleaching power. And some have reported allergic reactions from compounds containing mercury. A physician can zap a single freckle with liquid nitrogen (which is nitrogen gas from the atmosphere chilled to freezing). In a few days the freckle will scab and then fall off. There are also new laser procedures. Following any treatment be sure and use a sunscreen daily. Brown spots, formerly known as “liver spots” or “age spots,” are a small, flat or slightly raised dark area and mostly commonly appear on the face and hands. They are very shallow and lie only in the epidermis and they never go any deeper. And unfortunately they seem to accentuate whatever lines or wrinkles you may have on the face. Brown spots are more apt to be found with increasing age, blonds and thin-skinned people. If you have been a sun worshipper, you may develop brown spots even in your late twenties. This would indicate severe and prolonged over-exposure to the sun. It can also increase the likelihood of contracting skin cancer. You may be susceptive to developing brown spots if you take a contraceptive pill or have a B-complex vitamin deficiency. If you see any signs of the brown spots, the best thing to do is to get out of the sun. Nutritionists may recommend a healthy diet which is high in vitamin B. The brown spots are concentrations of melanin triggered by too much sun exposure over too long a period of time. If you use a good sunscreen regularly it will prevent brown spots over 90 percent of the time. This means using a minimum sunscreen of SPF 15. In the mornings when apply your makeup and sunscreen be sure to apply some sunscreen on the backs of your hands, too. Sometimes if you just have a few brown spots, a physician can burn them off with an electric needle. This is done by an electric current passing through the needle and burning the discolored skin away. Then a scab will form over the treated area. Once the scab falls off, the skin underneath is usually smooth and clear. A dermabrasion or superficial chemical peel, using resorcinol or salicylic acid, can be used if you have several brown spots on the face. This procedure should be done very carefully. As long as your face is protected from the sun, the brown spots will not return. Then you should not do any sunbathing and wear a protective shield or sunscreen at all times. |
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