Most Americans suffer from sudden appearance of pimples, freckles and hyper pigmentation due to various reasons. One of the most important reasons for these tends to be over-exposure to the sunlight in the form of outdoor activities and sun bathing.

What is hyper pigmentation?

Hyper pigmentation is a condition characterized by darker areas of skin as compared to its surroundings. This pigmentation is due to the high concentration of melanin from melanocyte in these darker areas. Usual causes of pigmentation involve imbalanced hormone level, environmental factors, heredity, aging and as mentioned above…the sun.

How do I treat hyper pigmentation?

Hyper pigmentation can be treated by various methods like lasers, surgeries, medicinal intake or with topical creams, but obviously natural methods are always best to use as they are cheap and effective. Elaborated here are a few methods.

• Diluted vinegar has bleaching effect on skin and helps in lighting the skin.
• Rubbing sliced onion on skin, when dipped in vinegar, enhances cleansing and lightens dark spots.
• Applying a mixture of tomato juice, curd and oat-meal for 20 minutes on pigmented areas has a profound effect
• Sliced potato when applied on face along with lemon juice produces bleaching effects, it lightens pigmentation.
• Lemon juice removes the dark upper layer of skin as it has acidic properties and causes the dark areas to fade.
• Soaked almonds when peeled grinded and applied on skin reduces dark lesions.
• Mixture of gram flour and raw milk along with lemon juice when applied on skin for 20 minutes lightens the skin.
• Cucumber and lemon juice in equilibrium helps in recovering pigmentation.
• Vitamin E supplements along with drops of castor oil when spread over pigmented areas improves complexion.
• Application of dried orange peels on skin when mixed with milk reduces blemishes.

Applying the above natural remedies on pigmented areas of skin will provide the effective and side-effects free results.

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