| African Americans and a few other ethnic groups | | | | irregular skin color. There are a number of |
| possessing dark skin, have a variety of skin care | | | | excellent African American skin care products |
| challenges with uneven skin tone. Many black skin | | | | that are especially designed to oil, protect, and |
| care products identify these challenges and target | | | | repair black skin. For instance, look for creams |
| their effect at evening out the problematic skin | | | | that have tretinoin because this is particularly good |
| tone. Having an even-out skin tone feature in a | | | | for helping prevent or overcome |
| black skin care product is a big selling point. | | | | hyper-pigmentation. |
| Skin tone is produced from melanin, the skin | | | | Tretinoin comes from vitamin A. It works as a |
| pigment that colors your skin. Light-skinned people | | | | regulator substance in and helps with the growth |
| may have uneven skin tone due to uneven | | | | and development of bone and helps in the |
| distribution of melanin under their skin. If the | | | | maintenance of epithelium. (This is the technical |
| melanin is concentrated you have freckles. | | | | way it is described - but all this says that this |
| Sunshine triggers the production of melanin and | | | | substance comes from vitamin A and is great for |
| this may darken your skin color in general. | | | | your skin and bones.) If it is used in a face cream |
| As well, black skin is not highly elastic and this | | | | that you put on your skin, it treats acne, fine |
| means that it can scar easily and be irritated | | | | wrinkles, hyper pigmentation, and skin roughness. |
| more easily than lighter, more elastic skin. The low | | | | The best thing you can do for your skin is ensure |
| elasticity is influenced by the high pigmentation, | | | | that you choose products that are made |
| which basically makes the skin thicker. What | | | | specifically for black skin. For African American |
| happens is that scarring or irritation can create | | | | skin care, seek tretinoin in face creams and |
| hyper-pigmentation or darkened skin. Irritation | | | | products with heavy oil that may penetrate |
| sometimes activates the production of melanin | | | | deeply so that it hydrates without leaving the skin |
| and this creates dark patches on the skin where | | | | oily. It is also a good idea to apply sunscreen |
| the irritation occurred. Even the irritation caused | | | | because this helps with irregular or hyper |
| by shaving can darken the skin. | | | | pigmentation. On the other hand, black skin care |
| If you use the kind of black skin care product | | | | products for your body in many cases have to |
| that mitigates the assaults that your skin has to | | | | deal with a totally different problem and that is |
| deal with, you can prevent a lot of the causes of | | | | dry skin that can get a kind of ashy look. |