Let's talk about spots

Dark spots affect all skin types, mostly women, and are a concern both for their aesthetic affectation and for their negative effect on the psycho-emotional level and on quality of life.

Dark spots affect all skin types, mostly women, and are a concern both for their aesthetic affectation and for their negative effect on the psycho-emotional level and on quality of life.

There are different types of dark spots differentiated by their origin and distribution on the skin, such as melasma, spots of inflammatory origin (HPI), solar lentigines, senile spots or freckles. They can appear due to numerous triggering factors, the most important being unprotected solar radiation, but also others such as genetic predisposition, inflammatory processes, hormonal changes, some photosensitising medications such as oral contraceptives or some anti-inflammatory drugs, antibiotics etc...