Pigmentation Therapy is a treatment of the skin that has an uneven skin tone due to age, spots, sun spots and hyperpigmentation. This treatment fades and removes excess pigmentation, restructuring the skin to an even clearer tone and can also freshen up the complexion, as well as giving a collagen boost within the skin.
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Inflammation is a key trigger of hyper-pigmentation, with inflamed blood vessels associated with pigmented ares, meaning any treatment needs to address this also. Epidermal pigmentation exists in two forms, which need treating differently. Pigmentation produced in melanocyte cells is routinely transferred to keratinocyte cells, which consistently migrate to the skin's surface where they die and drop off. We call this epidermal mobile pigmentation. The second occurs when pigment absorption by epidermal cells (keratinocytes) reduces with age or when damaged. These 'pigment packets' are not as was thought until recently, reabsorbed by melanocytes, but must go somewhere. They are in fact absorbed by Basal 'Mother' keratinocytes which are attached to the dermal epidermal junction. This pigment builds up over time but never travels to the surface of the skin. Pigment also becomes trapped in crevices within the junction membranes , and builds up over time. These represent Epidermal Fixed Pigmentation. With age and damage the membrane 'breaks down' releasing this fixed pigment into the dermis where melanophages should remove it but often dont. This remains as Dermal Pigmentation. Hormones moderate melanin manufacture, but hormonal change as seen with ageing or pregnancy, makes melanocytes more reactive to inflammation so even minimal irritation can exacerbate pigmentation pigmentation production dramatically. Ageing skin is more prone to free radical inflammation, leading to to marks such as 'age spots'. Most products address only Epidermal Mobile Pigmentation, but many patients often have Fixed Pigmentation too.