Age Spots on Face: An Overview
Age spots appear as brown spots on the skin and typically appear as we age. These brown spots are caused by extra melanin production in the skin. Melanin is a dark pigment in the epidermis and is responsible for giving the skin its natural color. The ultraviolet light from the sun actually increases the production of melanin. After many years of sun exposure, age spots start to appear. The extra melanin that is produced begin to clump together, which results in a brown age spot.
Because it takes many years of exposure to the sun for these dark spots to
appear, they are referred to age spots because they are spots that some people
get as they age. But in reality, the excess melanin is developing through the
years before the spots begin to actually be visible on the skin.
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