Melasma, The Immortal Skin Disorder Among Women

Taking good care of skin health among women seems to be quite a task due to the fact that good skin health reflects the beauty in their appearances. But sometimes some of them feel anxious about their beauty of skin being deteriorated by the environmental impurities and the change in their own bodies. One of the most concerns relating to this matter is facial skin complaints. But do you know the most common skin problem occurring among women all around the world is melasma. So what is melasma? Now let’s get to know more about melasma – the immortal skin disorder among women.

What is melasma?
Melasma is another name for hyperpigmentation. The hyperpigmentation is not so as severe as we think. In fact, it is just a common, usually innocuous condition in which patches of skin become darker in color than the normal surrounding skin. It can appear dark patches of skin on your face or body. Normally, these dark patches appear on both sides of the face in a nearly identical pattern and these patches gradually develop over time. If some of you have such a condition, then you are probably confronting this skin disorder – that’s melasma.

Melasma comes in a brown or dark facial skin discoloration that can occur in all skin types and it can affect the skin color of people of all racial and ethnic groups. So this skin disease possibly affects everyone, but is particularly found much more often in women than in men with light to fair, brown and dark skin who are between the ages of 20-40. It typically occurs on the face, especially in the region of the upper cheeks, the bridge of the nose, the forehead and the upper lip, where it usually appears in a symmetrical pattern.

Factors contribute to melasma
Several factors have been found to be in relation with melasma. Melasma can happen as frequently as it seen most often as the result of hormonal changes that take place during pregnancy. Others factors are genetics and family heredity that play important role as well as hormonal imbalance that bring us to be taken into consideration. The hormonal imbalance also causes excessive production of melanin. Melanin in turn darkens your skin and causes your skin to tan. Also, these can include some cosmetics and medicines used to treat ovarian or thyroid problems or a woman who is taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or oral contraceptives.

However, the most important factor in the development of melasma is exposure to sunlight - UV rays, especially UVA and UVB. Melasma is produced when melanocytes, which are epidermal cells capable of synthesizing melanin in the stratum basal layer, are stimulated by ultraviolet rays. Melanin is a pigment produced in the skin that helps protect us from UV radiation.

Even we already have melanocytes in our skin which protects us from UV rays. But why then do we need to protect our skin by applying sunscreen or bleaching cream? Do individuals with darker skin need this kind of protection? Or is it true that darker skin has existing natural protection. These are all the facts you have to learn and the reasons why you have to use sunscreen or bleaching cream to protect from harmful rays.

Protection from sunlight is a necessary part of treatment of melasma. For example, women who are pregnant or who take a hormone medication and avoid the sun are less likely to develop melasma than those who enjoy their lifestyle spending a lot of time outdoor under sunlight. Since the sunlight carries two harmful rays- UVA and UVB rays, it is believed to cause the formation of melanin that promotes the overproduction of melanin under the layers of skin to help protect our skin against these rays, and eventually it leads to the darkening of skin which comes in dark patches.

Apart from these sun’s rays, indoor UV radiation incredibly generates both UVA and UVB, emitting from home electric devices; fluorescent lighting and office equipments; copiers and computer screens. All of these can be predominantly UVA emitters and result in melanogenesis, and thus skin pigmentation. Although UVB is more harmful type of radiation than UVA, it is likely UVB will cause damage to the upper skin layers. UVB rays, which are a main cause of sunburn, are the sun’s burning rays and are the primary cause of sunburn and skin cancer. Meanwhile, UVA rays are absorbed by melanin pigment under our skin that deeply penetrate into the skin layers and this ray will deteriorate the collagen in the skin tissue in which collagen helps us keep our skin soft and elastic and it is the main cause of premature aging like fine lines, wrinkles and old looking skin.

Although people with fair to light skin complexion are prone to have a risk of melasma more than those who are darker skin tone, people with darker skin or people who don't burn easily can ignore sun safety precautions due to the fact that their skin did adapt to the amount of sun present in their environments. However, this is misconception about their natural protection will keep them safe from such a skin disorder. Do you believe that even people with darker skin complexion like African-American or Asian can have melasma.

Everyone in the world can suffer from the harmful effects of sun exposure and other factors as above-mentioned, no matter what types of their complexion are. Though, this might be true that people who have darker complexion don’t have to worry as much about sunburn as someone with very fair skin, anyone can suffer from the effects of sun damage, including wrinkles, age spots, and melasma.

You see that melasma undermines our beautiful skin, and whatever case, those who are affected by it tend to be very uncomfortable with the condition. While lifestyle choices can impact on the rise and spread of melasma. Consequently, the best thing that you can do is to continue protecting yourself as much as possible prior damage from the sunlight. Once the damage has happened, there is nothing that can reverse that. That is why you are recommended to wear sunscreens and bleaching cream to prevent melasma or any other changes in pigmentation that is caused by the sun whether you go outside much often or not.

There are many products designed functionally to protect your skin against sun’s rays and fade away the darkening of skin. One of the products available now that you should trust in is our St. herb Sunscreen Nano Complex SPF-60 (extra formula with waterproof & sweat-poof) and St. herb Melanosome Nano Lightening Complex used in togetherness to help decrease the amount of skin damage from sun exposure.

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Our revolutionary UVA/UVB sun protection formula SPF 60 with PA+++ means our sunscreen with SPF 60 can protect your skin from the UVB that cause sunburn for more than 15 hours and PA stands for the amount of protection the sunscreen offers from the UVA rays that may cause long-term skin damage. PA rankings are listed as PA+, PA++ or PA+++. The more +'s, the more protection from UVA rays.

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Notwithstanding regular basic protection from sunscreen, you need further protection to soothe your delicate facial skin to be soft and supple while at the same time help moisturize, nourish, and refine your skin to be clear of dark spots. The most effective way to reduce the visible signs of hyperpigmentation is to down-regulate melanin production. By this Stherb Malanosome Nano Lightening Complex will show higher levels of efficacy and respond with a greater protection and reduction in melanin.

Stherb Malanosome Nano Lightening Complex, a bleaching cream blended well evenly with recent innovation of Nanotechnology that contains nanosomes, is deeply moisturizing natural skin care cream that replenishes the lipid barrier of the skin and triggers the repair of facial skin cells damaged by UV radiations and free radicals. The cream also helps to discolor and reduce the amount of melasma, hyperpigmentation, brown-darker patches and age spots. The novel ingredients in St. herb Malanosome Nano Lightening Complex with a wholesome natural substance that reduces melanin biosynthesis effectively inhibit the accumulation of melanin pigments.

Stherb Sunscreen Nano Complex SPF 60 contributes to act only as a shield to protect you from the enemies to invade into your facial skin area. That is why you are recommended to use in conjunction with Melanosome Nano Lightening Cream as if it acts as a provision provider to reinforce your skin to be healthy for combating against those invaders- UV radiations.

Directions:
Apply Stherb Malanosome Nano Lightening Complex first, and then follow by St. herb Sunscreen Nano Complex SPF-60 on top.

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