Types of Pigmentations and Their Treatments

Pigmentation is not considered as any serious medical issue, but has most devastating visible effect on human skin. The melanocyte cell in the human skin is responsible for the color of their skin. Due to trauma, sun exposure, allergies, or any type of side effects of drugs can cause hyper pigmentation. Many of the skin care specialists offering pigmentation treatment, use to detect the type of issue and level of damage to the skin before recommending anything. Below mentioned are the types of pigmentation – 

Melasma – Out of several type of skin issues, the most known is due to hormonal changes in human body. Melasma is normally seen in pregnant women due to major fluctuations in hormones. One of the reasons for this is thyroid dysfunction and side effect of excessive intake of birth control pills or any hormone therapy medication. Treatment procedure to treat this type of pigmentation marks takes time.

Lentigines – Also known as age spots or liver spots are detected in 90% of people above the age of 60 years. Excessive exposure to UV rays is also one of the reasons for this irregularity in humans.

Post inflammatory hyper pigmentation (PIH) – Injuries, acne, burns, and several strong skin care treatments cause inflammation that turns out to be hyper pigmentation. It generally goes away with time as the skin re-generates and heals the damage.



Countless remedies are there to treat this skin issue, but the experiences vary from one person to another. The reason for ineffectiveness of remedies is unawareness of actual reason and type. This is the reason why experts recommend trusting the certified and experienced skin care service providers for their pigmentation treatment.