How Good Science Beauty's 004-Br Skin Brightening Cream Works
Do you have age spots or hyperpigmentation, and are looking for a product that evens out skin tone safely and gently? Good Science Beauty’s 004-Br Skin Brightening Cream is the answer.
The unique formula of the 004-Br Skin Brightening Cream treats dark spots on the skin successfully and safely without the addition of bleaching agents making it a good option for even sensitive skin.
What Causes Hyperpigmentation and Dark Spots?
If you are new to the term hyperpigmentation, it is basically dark patches that pop up on your skin. Hyper means more and pigment means color, so hyperpigmentation is any darker coloring on the skin.
Skin cells make a substance called melanin which is how skin gets its color. If these skin cells become damaged in any way, they can produce too much melanin. This causes the melanin to clump together making the area appear much darker.
These dark spots can be caused by a variety of things including sun exposure and damage, hormonal changes, injury, certain medications or rashes.
Different Types of Hyperpigmentation
The four main categories of hyperpigmentation are freckles, age spots (also called sunspots), melasma, and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation.
Freckles (scientific name: ephelides) are primarily genetic affecting mostly people with lighter skin. They can get darker with sun exposure and may fade during winter.
Age spots or sunspots (scientific name: solar lengitines), also known as liver spots, are very common. They occur from sun exposure overtime on areas like the hands and face.
Melasma is caused from hormonal changes, and it mainly shows up during pregnancy. While it can show up anywhere on the body, it most commonly develops on the face or stomach area.
Post- inflammatory hyperpigmentation is pigment that shows up after injury including acne or even rashes like eczema. Anything that causes inflammation on the skin can result in a post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation.
Regardless of what type of hyperpigmentation you are experiencing, you can use the 004-Br Skin Brightening Cream to treat it. If you are experiencing melasma due to pregnancy, make sure to check with your doctor first about ingredients before starting any new skincare product.
How Good Science Beauty’s 004-Br Skin Brightening Cream Works
There are three powerful active ingredients in this brightening cream that work synergistically together to treat hyperpigmentation on the skin: Glutathione, L-Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), and Melatonin.
Glutathione and L-Ascorbic Acid stabilize each other, and Melatonin boosts the efficacy of Glutathione and L-Ascorbic Acid.
Not only do these three powerful ingredients boost each other's efficacy, they also have individual aspects making them very unique in our brightening cream.
Vitamin C (L-Ascorbic Acid)
One of the best ingredients you can use for treating uneven skin tone, dark spots, hyperpigmentation, and overall skin brightening is vitamin C. It is a popular ingredient in skincare because of how well it works. It has been proven to be effective at depigmentation and helps reduce melanin production.
Vitamin C at higher concentrations and with regular, daily use can help to stimulate collagen production, minimize the appearance of dark spots, unify an uneven skin tone, improve skin firmness, and illuminate dull skin.
There are two main types of Vitamin C used in skincare products. The stable form, Tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate (THD), is used in all Good Science Beauty moisturizers (including the 004-Br Skin Brightening Cream), but is not as effective as L-Ascorbic Acid, the unstable form. L-Ascorbic Acid is only used in our 004-Br Skin Brightening Cream where we stabilize this unstable form of Vitamin C by pairing it with Glutathione.
Glutathione
Glutathione is one of the most powerful naturally occurring antioxidants in the body. It helps to naturally interrupt melanin synthesis, protects against collagen degradation and supports the natural reparative process within the skin structure. By interrupting melanocytes from forming, Glutathione helps encourage a more even complexion.
Glutathione has multiple benefits essential to overall health. In addition to reducing oxidative stress in the body and in the skin, it has been shown to minimize cell damage by protecting cell mitochondria and eliminating free radicals present in cells.
Glutathione has the unique ability to moderate the degradation of L-Ascorbic Acid, the unstable form of Vitamin C, Glutathione and L-Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) actually work together to stabilize each other.
Glutathione also neutralizes free radicals and deactivates the enzyme that produces unwanted pigments like sunspots.
Melatonin
Melatonin is an antioxidant produced by various tissues in the body. The main source of melatonin in the body is the brain’s pineal gland. It is well-known as a means of support for the regulation of circadian rhythm, triggered in response to light. In addition to its benefits to our body’s sleep cycle, Melatonin also plays a role in immune defense responses, blood pressure and even cortisol levels.
This antioxidant is also great for hyperpigmentation for several reasons. It boosts other antioxidants like glutathione, but it also is effective protection against the harmful effects of UV radiation. This study shows how it is also potent as an anti-inflammatory agent, so it can be helpful for brightening skin and reducing inflammation.
The addition of melatonin in our skin brightening cream works to protect your skin from harmful free radicals due to its antioxidant activity.
How The Active Ingredients In 004-Br Skin Brightening Cream Get To Your Skin
In addition to purposeful ingredients, how the ingredients get to your skin is what makes a skincare product actually work. And what makes Good Science Beauty Products unique is our patented Good Silicon+® technology.
Good Silicon+ delivers fresh and effective ingredients exactly where they’re needed and releases them over time as it slowly dissolves into orthosilicic acid (the form of silicon your body can absorb), which has been shown to be good for collagen production and skin health.
Good Silicon+ also protects delicate ingredients from degradation. Many skincare ingredients, such as L-Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) or Glutathione, are unstable. When exposed to oxygen or light, these ingredients can break down and lose their efficacy. Good Silicon+ creates a protective shell of silicon, lipids and amino acids that stabilizes molecules. It also boosts skin absorption.
How To Use The 004-Br Skin Brightening Cream
The 004-Br Skin Brightening Cream should be used twice a day for best results. Some customers can see results after only one week of use, but since this cream works gently, it takes time to change skin tone. This cream needs to be used consistently over at least 4 weeks for best results. Study participants who used our 004-Br Skin Brightening Cream twice per day saw up to a 44% reduction in age spots in 28 days.
After cleansing your face, squeeze one to two pumps of product onto your fingertips. Apply the cream all over your face or areas you want to target specifically (uneven tone, hyperpigmentation, and age spots) in a circular motion.
Good Science Beauty Creams have fast absorption, so you can pair these creams with other skincare products or even additional Good Science Beauty Creams. Check out our product guide for layering skincare products here.
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Allergy Advice:
The 004-Br Skin Brightening Cream contains small amounts of lavender oil. If you are allergic to this otherwise beneficial ingredient, this product is not suitable for you.
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