The Face and Body shop in Grotton answers your health and beauty questions
Send in your health and body questions for their experts to answer, email: aimee@saddind.co.uk or write to: Health and Beauty, 5 Kinders Crescent, Greenfield, Saddleworth, Oldham OL3 7JQ.
Find The Face and Body Shop at 283 Oldham Road in Grotton or call them on: 0161 627 1114. You can also visit their website.
Q. After my pregnancy three years ago I have been left with a dark brown mark around my mouth. It gets darker in the sun and when I’m on holiday it even gets darker through total sun block. I am finding it harder to cover with make-up and it is really affecting my confidence. What can I do?
A. It sounds very much like a condition called melasma or chloasma. Melasma is a common skin condition characterised by areas of light to dark brown pigmentation develops, mainly on the face.
Melasma usually becomes more noticeable in summer due to the sun’s stimulation of melanin in the skin, and as you mentioned pregnancy can be a contributing factor to its onset, along with triggers such as stress and hormonal drugs such as the contraceptive pill.
In the clinic we have a number of ways we can treat hyperpigmentation including laser skin rejuvenation, skin peels and homecare products.
In the case of melasma and the fact that it is a systemic condition we cannot treat it with laser skin rejuvenation as this could cause it to become darker. Skin peels and homecare products are still viable treatment options and I would suggest a treatment programme which includes a combination therapy plan of both peels and the Obagi Nu-Derm system.
The Obagi Blue Peel Radiance treatment is a medium depth skin peel treatment designed for incremental desquamation of the stratum corneum. This will reveal the new skin, allow the absorption of the Nu-Derm products to penetrate the skin more readily and boost the effects of the programme.
The system was designed by Dr Zein Obagi to treat a wide range of skin care concerns using prescription-based hydroquinone and tretinoine. It promises to deliver your youngest possible skin after just 18 weeks. The system has enjoyed years of success and has proven clinical results in treatment of melasma and other pigment problems.
The 18-weeks system works on three skin cycles and it works extremely well when combined with a course of three peels every six weeks to boost the effect of each Obagi skincare cycle.
At the end of the 18-week system you would see a dramatic difference on the treatment area: the whole face will be brighter, firmer, lifted, pores will be more refined and skin tone more even.
There is no need for you to continue to suffer. Please call in to talk to our clinical staff who would be happy to assess the area, discuss your treatment options and provide you with any information
Consultations on a range of skincare and aesthetic treatments are available in salon six days a week. Please feel free to call in and discuss your concerns, and mention this article for a free sample bag.
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