To take care of your skin, it is important to focus on a healthy lifestyle but also a skincare routine adapted to the problems you wish to treat. If wrinkles, bags, dark circles or even brown spots are completely normal phenomena that mark our skin over time, we sometimes try to reduce them. What if we told you that simple everyday foods could complement all these (sometimes expensive) products? On TikTok, a grandmother’s tip, highlighting a simple food that we generally always have in our kitchen, is presented as THE solution to regain a radiant complexion and reduce spots. What is it really ?
How to use potatoes against brown spots?
The star of foods against dark spots? Potatoes, this starchy food as good in your dishes as for your skin. This practice highlighted on Tik Tok consists of cutting half a raw potato, and rubbing it in circular movements on the face for a few moments. A gesture that would even out, brighten the complexion and get rid of pigment spots.
But then is this technique really effective and safe for the health of our skin? A dermatologist answered this question to the media Well and Good. “It is an extremely hydrating ingredient because potatoes contain a very high water content. Potato pulp in skin care can help calm inflamed and irritated epidermis as it contains natural enzymes that help reduce inflammation” says Dr. Dustin Portela, who points out that potatoes contain vitamin C, a lightening agent. “It is important to note that the [pulpe] potato can lighten skin, reduce dark spots and hyperpigmentation by inhibiting melanin production” he adds.
Potato: is this food really beneficial for the skin?
Be careful though, the lightening capabilities of potatoes are so important that it is better to use well-dosed potato treatments, rather than using raw potatoes directly on the skin, warns the doctor. In fact, this risksaccentuate the halo effect of brown spots, when the skin around the hyperpigmentation is lighter. Furthermore, the specialist specifies that home remedies based on potatoes do not contain preservatives and therefore can expose the skin to certain microbes, at the risk of irritation and infections.
To combat the appearance of brown spots, it is advisable to apply sun protection daily, on the face, hands and other parts of the body exposed to the sun. And in order to reduce the appearance of those already installed, it is recommended to choose treatments with lightening properties and to seek advice from your dermatologist. There are in fact ranges of anti-stain care products, which use certain active ingredients such as azelaic acid, vitamin C, fruit acids, such as glycolic acid, or even niacinamide.
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