“Are liver spots dangerous?
Jul 14th 2010adminAging skin & Best practices for healthy skin & How skin works
Relax. “Liver spots” are misnamed, to start with. They have nothing to do with your liver. Perhaps it was the color that attracted the name. They are also called brown spots or age spots.
Most brown spots are the result of sun damage. (How about calling them “sun spots”?) It would be more accurate to say that brown spots are a visible sign that your skin has been trying to protect you against sun burn. That sun tan you worked so hard to get is the same sort of thing… Your body doing its best to keep the surface cells from burn damage.
Back to those brown spots — They did not jump up overnight and paste themselves on your face. The process started years ago, as long ago as 15-18 years. And it built up from deep inside your skin layers. Each exposure to the sun without adequate protection added a little bit to them. Then, one day, you began to notice them.
The usual recommendation seems to be bleaching. Your dermatologist will be able to suggest chemical mixtures that may or may not bleach the surface of the spot without harm to other cells. The difficulty is that, because these are not strictly surface blemishes, the color will return as your cells grow toward the surface. And the process will have to be repeated.
The same difficulty comes when you try to bleach brown spots using natural skin care products.
In the end, it’s going to be your choice. Do you prefer to reach the same temporary result using chemicals or using natural products?
Either way, the best you can do is reduce the appearance of those liver spots.