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Your face is such a prominent, noticeable, and defining part of your appearance. So when hyperpigmentation takes hold, it’s incredibly frustrating. If you’ve been trying to treat melasma with home remedies, you’ve probably become disillusioned by poor results. Instead of giving up and resigning yourself to pigmented skin, enlist a new tool: the PicoSure Focus. This laser helps patients with even large patches of melasma see clear skin again.* Here’s how it works, and whether you’re a good candidate.
Causes of Melasma
For how commonplace melasma is, the scientific community still knows little about it. The exact causes are unknown, also researchers have some ideas about what might be involved:
- Pregnancy (it’s such a common development that it’s sometimes called “pregnancy mask”)
- Fluctuating hormones from birth control pill, hormone replacement therapy, menopause, or other causes of rapid hormonal change
- The female sex (women are far more likely than men to get melasma)
- Sun exposure
- Genetics
- Race
- Medications that make the skin more prone to pigmentation after UV exposure
If you have a genetic predisposition for melasma, you’re more likely to see it as a result of sun exposure, so sun protection is especially important. Melasma most often appears during the summer months, and tends to lighten in the winter. Of course, sunscreen won’t necessarily give you total protection: many individuals will still develop melasma. That’s why laser treatment is such a welcome aid.
Treating Your Melasma
Because melasma can appear on so many areas of the body, including the cheeks, bridge of the nose, forehead, chin, upper lip, forearms, neck, and other spots commonly exposed to sunlight, treatment needs to take a delicate approach. There are many natural remedies and home approaches to melasma, and while these may gently lighten your skin, they’re not going to lead to impressive results. You want your melasma gone, not just a shade lighter – and the PicoSure Focus will help accomplish this.*
The Focus offers a less invasive take on laser skin resurfacing. It targets excessive pigmentation to break up the added melanin, and remove it from the treated area. Your skin will only feel a little tingly and look slightly red after a treatment session – there’s no downtime associated, unlike standard laser skin resurfacing.* If you’d like to learn more, just schedule a free consultation to have your skin examined (without commitment).
Make melasma a thing of the past.
*Disclaimer: Please note that there is no guarantee of specific results. Results may vary.