Skin Pigmentation Treatment

What is Pigmentation?

Pigmentation means colouring. Skin pigmentation disorders affect the colour of your skin. Skin cells give your skin colour by making a substance called melanin but when these cells become damaged or unhealthy, it affects melanin production. Some pigmentation disorders affect just patches of skin, while others affect your entire body.

Treatments For Skin Pigmentation

Dermastamp
Dermastamp or Collagen Induction Therapy procedure works by stimulating your own body’s collagen. Your body will start to naturally regenerate the skin, working below the surface in the dermis. 

​Medical Grade Facials 
Reduce the look of pigmentation, age spots and other unwanted skin discolorations and restore clarity and luminosity to your skin. 

Medical Grade Peels 
They can be hugely beneficial at helping to deal with pigmentation. It is a non-invasive, exfoliating treatment that relies on fruit acids, herbs and antioxidants to loosen the ‘glue’ that binds the dead cell to the skins surface. Peels promotes an increase of cell turnover which increases the production of collagen and elastin that then promotes the growth of new skin. 

Microdermabrasion 
Can also be helpful by removing the top layer of dead damaged skin and encouraging cell turn over which in turn promotes collagen and elastin’s that then promotes new more evenly toned skin growth.

IPL Pigmentation Removal 
This is a non-invasive treatment that treats skin damage without disruption of the skin’s surface, hence no “down time”. Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) can simultaneously treat a wide range of facial concerns safely and effectively, such as benign brown pigment, age spots (sun-induced freckles), mottled pigmentation, rosacea, redness and broken capillaries.

Vampire Facial®
Adds renewed luster and brightness to the skin via Platelet Rich Plasma Treatments and Micro-Needling to infuse the skin with Stem Cells. PRP is a bio active stimulator using cells derived from your own blood, these are then micro-needled into the skin to stimulate collagen and new skin cells.

In addition to this, there are serums and pigment inhibitors available to aid and assist the lightening and brightening of pigmentation already formed and also help at a deeper cellular level to build and maintain a barrier to reduce up and coming pigmentation that has not reach the epidermal level yet. These include ingredient such as Vitamin A, Vitamin A based Retinoid’s, Vitamin C, Niacinamide, Arbutin, Tyrostat and others. For quite severe pigmentation, if other products have been tried and not worked there is also Hydroquinone, which is a prescription only medication.
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Daily applications of sun block with a broad-spectrum from UVA and UVB rays is essential in preventing further sun damage and further pigmentation. This is especially important during the months of summer but even through out autumn and winter. 

What causes Pigmentation?

If your body makes too much melanin, your skin gets darker. Pregnancy, Addison’s disease and sun exposure all can make your skin darker.  If your body makes too little melanin, your skin gets lighter. Hypopigmentation is a condition that causes patches of light skin.  Albinism is a genetic condition affecting all of a person’s skin. Infections, blisters and burns can cause lighter skin.

Dark Pigmentation on light coloured skin
The main cause of dark or light pigment spots on light skinned individuals is sun damage.  Years of sun exposure or even just one severe sunburn can result in spotted hyperpigmentation, resulting in a mottled skin completion.  It can also be hereditary or bought on by hormonal changes, eg: pregnancy (melasma) or by taking certain oral contraception.

Dark Pigmentation on dark coloured skin
The main causes of dark or light pigment spot on darker skinned individuals are melasma and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation.  Melasma (also occurs on light skin) is commonly called “the mask of pregnancy” can effect the deeper skin layers (the dermis) and can be difficult to treat and can require a multifaceted treatment regiment, in some cases it lessens in time after the birth.  Post inflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH) is a condition in which an injury or inflammation to the skin causes increased pigment production, and like melasma, can be difficult to treat when it involves a deeper skin layer.  The most common cause of PIH is acne but it also can result from psoriasis, a burn, or and injury.

White Pigmentation on dark coloured skin
White pigmentation on dark skin is called hypopigmentation, not to be confused with Vitiligo, which is an autoimmune disorder in which the pigment-producing cells are damaged.  Hypopigmentation can also appear on light skin but is not so obvious.  It is usually caused by pigmentation loss as a result of skin damage.  If you’ve had a skin infection, blisters, burns, or other trauma to your skin, you may have a loss of pigmentation in the affected area.  The good news with this type of pigment loss is that it’s frequently not permanent, but it may take a long time to re-pigment.  In some cases it will not return.
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