Pigmentation: Types, Causes, Symptoms, Tips & Home Remedies

Hyperpigmentation: An Overview & Remedies

Hyperpigmentation or dark spots on the skin is one of the common skin disorders. Hyperpigmentation is a commonly painless and itching free disorder. Hyperpigmentation occurs on the skin due to various reasons including hormonal changes and excessive production of melanin in the body. Hyperpigmentation or dark spots can occur on any area of the skin. However, this dark spots on the skin are painless but it badly affects the confidence and presence of the affected person. If the occurrence of hyperpigmentation or dark spots on the skin are visible or it occurring on the face then it badly reduces the beauty of the skin.

 

 

What is hyperpigmentation?

Hyperpigmentation is a skin disorder that creates dark spots on the skin. Hyperpigmentation appears on the skin with red, brown, black, grey, and pink coloured spots and patches. In hyperpigmentation few spots of the skin become darker than the usual skin. These dark-coloured spots on the skin don’t harm. Hyperpigmentation may spread across the body if not treated. Hyperpigmentation can occur due to multiple different causes. Based on its different causes and different treatments hyperpigmentation is divided into three types. 

Three types of hyperpigmentation are cited below:

1. Melasma: Melasma occurs due to hormonal changes, melasma generally develops in women during the time of their pregnancy. Melasma hyperpigmentation mostly appears on the stomach and face, although melasma can occur on any part of the body. 

 

1. Sunspots: High exposure to the sunlight creates multiple dark spots on the skin over time such spots are known as sunspots, age spots or liver spots. Sunspot hyperpigmentation mostly occurs on the skin that directly contacts the sun like the hand and face.

 Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation: post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation mostly occurs after the injury, pimples or acne, and inflammation on the skin. This hyperpigmentation can appear anywhere on the skin where any acnes, pimples or injury took place.

What causes hyperpigmentation?

Hyperpigmentation comprises different types of categories into it. Hyperpigmentation or dark spots or patches on the skin can occur due to multiple causes, a few of them are stated below-

• Excessive exposure to the sun
• Hormonal changes can be due to pregnancy or leukorrhea
• An autoimmune disorder like lupus
• Certain allergies with certain things like food, drink, weather etc.
• Injuries like burning and wounds
• Obesity 
• Diabetes 
• Medication of certain diseases 
• High usage of chemical products
• Consumption of tobacco and smoking
• Increasing age
• Hyperthyroidism 
• Pimples or acne 

Dos and Don’ts for hyperpigmentation-

Follow the tips to reduce dark spots or hyperpigmentation from the body:

• Avoid high exposure to the sun
• Don’t pick any injury, acnes or pimples lying on the skin
• Wear the tan preventing cloths and sunglasses
• Don’t scrub your face or skin aggressively 
• Consume vitamin-c rich foods, fruits, and juices including lemon juice, tomato juice etc.
• Avoid the consumption of tobacco
• Quit smoking 
• Identify the cause of dark spots and stop doing it
• Don’t use harsh chemical products on your skin
• Don’t consume fried, packaged, and processed food

 

Home remedies to remove dark spots or hyperpigmentation

Follow the tested ayurvedic home remedies mentioned below to reduce the dark spots from the skin-

First home remedy to remove dark spots or hyperpigmentation

Ingredients: Tomatoes, oatmeal, and yogurt

Step 1: Take a tomato and cut it into multiple small pieces, and extract the sap of the tomato using a sieve.

Step 2: Take 2 spoons of oatmeal and half a spoon of yogurt, mix it well.

Instructions: Apply this paste directly on the dark patches of the skin, let it dry naturally and then rinse the spot with lukewarm water. Try this home remedy daily to reduce the effect of hyperpigmentation.

 

Second home remedy to remove dark spots or hyperpigmentation

Ingredients: Turmeric powder and lemon

Step 1: Take one spoon of homemade turmeric powder and take one spoon of lemon sap.

Step 2: Mix both ingredients properly.

Instructions: Apply this paste directly on the dark patches of the skin and let it remain till the paste turn dry, and then wash it with lukewarm water. Follow this home remedy regularly to remove dark spots from the skin. 

 

Third home remedy to remove dark spots or hyperpigmentation

Ingredients: Rice flour and a lemon

Step 1: Take one spoon of rice flour and sap of a lemon

Step 2: Mix both the ingredients properly to make a fine paste.

Instructions: Apply this paste directly on the skin for 10 minutes and wash it softly with lukewarm water.

 

Fourth home remedy to remove dark spots or hyperpigmentation

Ingredients: Rice flour, sandalwood powder, and milk

Step 1: Take one spoon of rice flour and half a spoon of sandalwood powder.

Step 2: Mix both the ingredients with milk to make a fine paste.

Instructions: Apply this paste directly to the skin and let it dry naturally. Follow third remedy and this consecutively two times a week.

 

Fifth home remedy to remove dark spots or hyperpigmentation

Ingredients: Rice flour, honey, fresh turmeric piece, rose water, and potato sap

Step 1: Soak a peeled piece of fresh turmeric into the rose water for a few minutes.

Step 2: Take the rose water and add an equal quantity of each ingredient, mix it properly.

Instructions: Apply this paste directly to the affected area and let it dry. Rinse it off with lukewarm water.