Articles of category "Liver spots"

Treating age spots can be a painful procedure. It's much easier to prevent age spots rather than treating them. Among popular methods of treating spots and extra skin pigmentation are acids, skin-lightening or "fade" products, cryotherapy or freezing, electric needle and other ones. These methods help to treat age spots, but at the same time have disadvantage of superficial destruction of surrounding healthy skin.

Age spots are the remaining light-to-dark brown patches increasing and clustering all together in certain body areas. They are also called liver sports. The causes of liver spots can be excessive exposure to the sun. The areas where age spots appear very often are backs of hands, face and neck. Age spots are known to be very common for people over 50. They are harmless, but unattractive, that's why many people try to get rid of them.