Melasma can happen in any season but mostly it happens in summer. Sun is the major cause of melasma. During summer, the weather becomes very hot and sun rays affect your skin more than other seasons.
You cannot stop or treat melasma at home. But there are some hacks you can do to control it. I have personally experienced it and i did some tricks to control this disorder. In this article we will discuss those top 7 tricks to control myself from melasma in summer. Tips and home remedies to prevent from melasma in all seasons are as follows:
How Can I Prevent Myself From Melasma?
Prevention is the only best thing you can do for melasma. Here are some tips for you to prevent you from melasma:
1 – Do Not Stay In The Sun For So Long:
Sun exposure is the major reason of melasma. When you stay in the sun for a long time, it disturbs the melanin secreting hormones and they start producing excess melanin. It causes the hyperpigmentation and melasma patches start developing on skin.
Protect your skin from excess sun exposure and try not to go out in the sun especially during summer. In summer, the chances of melasma increase due to hot weather.
2 – Do Good Skincare During Pregnancy:
During pregnancy, the hormonal disturbance happens in the body. This hormonal disturbance also disturbs the melanin production in skin. During pregnancy time, the melanin producing hormones abnormally produce excess melanin. This excess of melanin causes melasma.
Do good care of your skin during pregnancy. Take advices of professionals and make a good skincare routine for your skin.
3 – Prevent From Hyperpigmentation:
The basic cause of melasma is hyperpigmentation. Hyperpigmentation is the abnormal and excess production of pigments. You should control your body hormones to prevent excess pigmentation.
Balance your hormones to prevent from hyperpigmentation. Control the production of melanin especially. Do chemical peels and dermatological treatments to prevent from hyperpigmentation.
4 – Take Healthy Diets:
Diets have a great role in prevention of melasma. Healthy diets make your skin healthy. When your skin becomes healthy, the chances of melasma decrease.
As well as prevention, healthy diets also plays a role in treatment of melasma. Healthy diets contribute in pigment controlling and melasma appearance decreases. Diets like fruits, vegetables, fish etc. should be use daily to stay protected from melasma.
5 – Choose Smooth Skincare Products:
Do not use any harmful product on your skin especially on sensitive skin. Always use smooth products and be gentle with your skin.
If you have melasma by chance then use skincare products according to doctor’s prescriptions. Do not use any skin product to treat melasma on your own. It may increase your melasma.
6 – Maintain Your Stress Level:
When you take stress, the hormonal balance in your body disturbs. Maintain stress to control your hormone level. Keep yourself calm and release all your tensions to make your mental health strong.
7 – Use Of Effective Home Remedies:
You can apply home remedies on your skin if you have small amount of melasma on face. It will control the spreading of melasma. The effective home remedies can decrease the melasma appearance. There is a chance that it will completely disappear your melasma.
Effective Home Remedies For Melasma Treatment:
There are some natural agents which are useful in decreasing melasma. If the melasma is very dark and worst, it will not be treated by home remedies. But if the melasma is on its starting stage, you can control and treat it naturally. Here are some effective home remedies for treatment of melasma;
- Aloe Vera Gel:
Aloe Vera gel is best home remedy for melasma treatment. It will treat your melasma slowly. There is a chance that it will finish your darker and worsen melasma completely.
Apply aloe vera gel on the face along with a night cream at night. Use natural gel from the aloe vera plant. As it is natural medicine for skin, it will slowly treat melasma.
- Skin Natural Healing Ability:
Skin treats melasma own its own by its natural healing process. In many cases, the small and light patches of melasma fades naturally by skin natural healing process.
For natural healing of skin, one thing you should keep in mind that your skin must be healthy. Beauty sleep is important in skin natural healing process. Sleep well at night for melasma treatment own its own.
- Sun Protection:
Sun protection is very important factor for treatment of melasma. As sun is the major cause of melasma, protect your skin from sun. Do not go out in the sun especially during summer. But if you have to go out, do not forget to apply sunscreen.
Use sunscreen with SPF 30 at least. Do not take excess sun bath if you have melasma.
- Natural scrubs:
Use of natural scrubs on your melasma can slowly heal it. Lemon is one of the best natural scrubs. Do not apply lemon juice directly. As the lemon has acidic feature, the direct apply of lemon juice on skin will make your melasma worse.
Apply lemon juice along with water on your skin. It will nullify the harsh acidic effects of lemon on your skin.
- Exfoliation:
Exfoliation removes the dead skin cells from the melasmic skin. When the dead skin cells from melasma will remove, the appearance of melasma will decrease.
Take a good quality exfoliator and gently apply it on the skin. It will remove melasma and also give you natural skin color.
Conclusion:
Preventions are the best thing you can do for melasma. Home remedies work when you have less melasma. Once it starts getting worse, it will not treated by home remedies. The best way to treat your melasma is the dermatological method.
If you want to read how you can treat your melasma you can also read this article; how to cure melasma from the inside and outside?
FAQ’s
What deficiency causes melasma?
Vitamin B12 and Vitamin C deficiency cause melasma.
Which hormone increases melasma?
When the estrogen and progesterone levels are disturbed, melasma increases.
What age is melasma common?
18 to 60 is the age in which melasma happens. In females, melasma happens mostly during pregnancy age.
Who is most at risk for melasma?
People with dark skin have more chances of melasma than light skin peoples. It is because dark skin people have more active pigments than light ones. Moreover, females get more melasma than males.
Is melasma seasonal?
Melasma reduces during winter and increases during summer. You can treat your melasma during winter season.