Dark/Age spots

I have age spots on my right hand and have found organic rose hip oil to be a great help at fading them. I also apply some to my face before foundation which contains sunscreen.
I shall pass on some of the ideas here to dd who has one on her face now covered by a fringe.

I just purchased L"Oreal Bright Reveal serum with niacinamide. I'll give it a month and get back to you all!

Some people say lemon juice helps to lighten age spots.

Just wondered if having freckles increased the likelihood of age spots developing as they look the same colour but bigger. I have been working in the garden the past two days and noticed freckles popping up on my hand and are an exact match colourwise to age spots.

Thank you for all your recommendations ( I knew I would get a great response from my fellow Gransnetters). There is a lot of information here going from cheap to expensive remedies. I shall research all the products mentioned and in the meantime will keep applying the sunscreen so hopefully I won’t get any more ☀️😎

4allweknow

Curious about reducing age spots. Does anyone who has been successful have or had freckled skin when young.

Yep me...I had freckles when younger.

TCA. (Trichloric acid).

It's what the medical spas use and it most definitely works. It is heavy duty stuff so read up and be careful.

Start with a lower concentration, the 12.5% or 15%. Then go higher a bit at a time if needed, like 20% or maybe 25%. At high concentrations, is it used to remove tattoos, so you'd want to go slow and careful if you do it yourself.

MilstOne, thanks for the recommendation; I hadn't heard of that company. I'll have to look into shipping costs to see if it's viable for me.

I have used Vichy B3 Serum, and think it has made a difference to my spots/freckles. Now that spring has arrived and I'm spending more time outside, I have to get more disciplined with sunscreen to keep them at bay!

Skydancer

Vitamin E cream from a health shop is quite cheap and can reduce age spots. My Mum read that if it is used daily it can get rid of seborrheic keratosis in 6 months -those brown lumpy skin things. She applied it daily on this particular spot which she hated as it was so visible on her neck and, six months later, the thing was gone. You do have to remember to do this regularly. I think the cream is less than £6. Totally natural too which is nice.

I have a diagnosis of Seborrheic Keratosis for the lumps I had on my head. I also have a small mole on my face, I have some gel made by Gruum Youth Restoring serum containing Vitamins A,C,E and sea buckthorn. I have used a very small amount on my head and face. The lesion on my head formed a crust and fell off after 2 weeks and the mole on my face is considerably reduced. A small pot costs £13 unless it is on offer, but a little goes a long way.

4allweknow

Curious about reducing age spots. Does anyone who has been successful have or had freckled skin when young.

No, I didn't have a lot of freckles, but did have a few which disappeared when I was a young adult.

The age spot on my face was larger.

Curious about reducing age spots. Does anyone who has been successful have or had freckled skin when young.

Terribull I am using the new Charlotte Tilbury serum for dark spots . A bit soon to see results for me too.

I had some success with a REN product. It removed an age spot completely. I now have another one but can't find that product online so presume it's been discontinued. I'm using Nivea Serum mentioned by another poster but not much success so far. Hit or miss.

Xanthelasma.

Vitamin E cream from a health shop is quite cheap and can reduce age spots. My Mum read that if it is used daily it can get rid of seborrheic keratosis in 6 months -those brown lumpy skin things. She applied it daily on this particular spot which she hated as it was so visible on her neck and, six months later, the thing was gone. You do have to remember to do this regularly. I think the cream is less than £6. Totally natural too which is nice.

Dark spots (and I have plenty) are a sign of both ageing and sun damage - but really - am I going to put cream on my face that has been produced by some pseudo-pharmaceutical company (to make a profit no less) and that cannot possibly make these dark spots lighter unless it contains a bleaching agent? Do people who pay a fortune for such creams not understand that nothing whitens (skin or teeth or hair) unless it has bleach in it?

Does nothing for me and I have only pale marks on arms. Sunscreen stops them coming out like freckles.

Whitewavemark2

The best product is. Sunscreen. But started at a young age, as age spots are sun damage.

Yes, a high factor sunscreen.

However, if you have any on your face that worry you, Clarins Dark Spot targeting cream worked on me, expensive but worth it.
They do seem to have changed the packaging and maybe the formula since I used it but it must be at least as good, if not better.

Bright Plus Dark Spot-Targeting Gel Cream

Agree with @Sanmrbro about the Nivea one

This one worked for me.

Trial

Don’t waste money on IPL treatment - 5 sessions and about £1,000 later, mine are no different 😩

I think Whitewave is probably right re the sun damage. The trouble with that is that it seems the damage can be done decades before and then lurk and wait to pop up years later.

I'm not a sunbather myself - partly because my father has a tendency to skin problems and he got absolutely "blasted" with hot foreign suns when he was younger - courtesy of being in the Armed Forces - and landed up absolutely riddled with skin cancer all over because of them. My erstwhile brother also went into the Armed Forces - same thing again = absolutely riddled with skin cancer (that and his own choices - of outdoor sports).

I realised very early on re my father and hence deliberately avoid sunbathing - but I had years of being exposed to hot foreign suns as a kid carted round the world with him and I'd be willing to bet the cosmetic problems I have are down to that - ie the damage can lurk around waiting to pop out for decades. I have no way to prove it's the Armed Forces fault - and hence they don't know about it.....but yep...

I wish I knew about sunscreen all those years ago when I used to want to get a tan! Now I don't like being in the sun and always use sunscreen.

I, too, have dark patches on my face and over the past few years have tried various products with no success.
However, I have been using the Eucerin anti pigment range. I use the Spot Corrector and the Night Cream. There is also a day cream which I don't use.
There has been a noticeable improvement.
It has taken about six months and I doubt the marks will disappear completely but I will continue using it as so far I'm happy with the results.

I shall be following this one with interest - as it's a problem I've got too.

Having a list of about 10 "ailments to deal with" I'm having to work my way through them in order of priority - so I've barely been able to touch on this one yet (things like high blood pressure - now solved) coming higher priority obviously. Right now I'm working on my feet - courtesy of a butcher podiatrist I landed up seeing here and sorting her mess out has taken months to date.

But I have had a few visits to a doctors surgery re them and had several patches blasted off with cryogenic freezing them off (yep...it does hurt!). So I've got rid of or reduced the worst of them with that. It took several visits - as that practice does a maximum of 10 per visit. Yep...it's one of the recently-opened private doctors practices that are emerging in the country and these practices will deal with stuff the NHS no longer will, as well as the "newer cosmetic only type stuff - eg weight injections". Priced on a scale with several points on it. From memory I think it went "1-3", an intermediary point or two and "maximum of 10". I went for the "maximum of 10" point each time and, from memory, that was £250 a go!!! So I've had to spend hundreds on what I've had blasted so far.

Years back I had some of the worst at that time blasted off by an NHS doctor surgery - but that was before the NHS "virtually crashed and burned" and they refuse to do that now.

Once I've dealt with the higher priority stuff on my "Sickness to deal with" list and manage to focus more fully on this - then I'm basically looking at self-care, starting with castor oil packs on the remaining blemishes - and yep...new ones of these darn things are still popping up at intervals. I have the nasty feeling I'm going to have to "do an inspection" every few months, tackle new ones, think "All clear" and it'll be the same again err long and I think they're probably going to be a source of "work to do/money to pay" to sort them for the rest of my life. Hence I've got my eye on castor oil and recently bought a blemish removal pen to have a go at "blasting" myself.