Pigment spots are difficult to fade with simple creams, but dermatologists are hopeful of erasing them thanks to this new active ingredient with incredible effects. We present to you cysteamine, the active ingredient that finally offers a super effective cream against brown spots.
People looking to get rid of pigment spots they have on the face know it, it is very difficult to achieve this with simple creams and without resorting to laser treatments. Vitamin C, glycolic acid, resveratrol… There are many illuminating active ingredients that manage to attenuate them, but not always to make them disappear entirely. If the best is still to prevent their appearance with anti-brown spot sunscreens, you can also count on more powerful active ingredients to fade them.
The benchmark active ingredient remains hydroquinone, which is one of the most effective depigmenting active ingredients on the market, but the use of which is highly regulated and subject to medical prescription. And for good reason, it can cause irreversible depigmentation of the skin when used in too high doses, as well as irritation. This is why arbutin, a derivative of hydroquinone, is sometimes used in spot creams for less risky use. But recently, it is a new asset that gets praise from dermatologists : there cysteamine. A super powerful antioxidant and a anti-dark spot active “more potent than hydroquinone” as dermatologist Robert Anolik explains in pace . And to top it all off, it wouldn’t have its potential downsides of hydroquinone.
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What is cysteamine?
It is an antioxidant molecule which was discovered in 1960 by a Harvard professor, but which has a major drawback: it smells very bad. Sana Shah, global medical director of Scientis, the parent company of Cyspera, a brand that has now marketed cysteamine globally, explains that its smell is similar to that “rotten eggs”. That’s why we haven’t been able to benefit from its brightening effects so far. But since then, the brand’s laboratories have found a way to protect us from the putrid smell of this unparalleled anti-dark spot active ingredient.
Cysteamine: how does it erase dark spots?
In pace, Sana Shah reveals the mode of action of cysteamine and the reasons for its effectiveness. According to her, she “inhibits the different stages of the production of hyperpigmentation thanks to its powerful antioxidant activity”. In short, the pigments that cause pigment spots are not even created, so they do not reach the surface of the skin to color it. And in addition, cysteamine also stimulates the natural mechanism of the skin guaranteeing the balance of its pigments to maintain an even complexion. On its website, the Cyspera brand claims that 77% of people who try it see a reduction in hyperpigmentation. “in 4 weeks” only. A promise that makes you dream when you can’t get rid of your brown spots.
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Anti-brown spot cream: how to use cysteamine?
Far from being lightening treatments among many others, those with cysteamine are used in a very particular way. In any case, this is how Cyspera’s Intensive Pigment Corrector treatment is used, which must be applied to clean skin, but not freshly washed skin because it is hyper active. Indeed, you have to wait 1 hour after washing your face to apply it. It works with a “short contact application”. ATin other words, you should not leave it on your skin without rinsing it off after a certain period of time. The care must, in fact, be applied for 15 minutes, then be washed off with a mild cleanser. Then moisturize your skin to comfort it.
In addition to its binding method of application, this cysteamine treatment also requires a real long-term commitment because it must be applied once a day, every day, for 16 weeks during the intensive phase of lightening of brown spots, then once a day, twice a week as maintenance.
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