Guidance: How to keep your melasma at bay
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Receiving professional guidance and maintaining healthy skin habits over time is the best way to have long-term success with treating melasma. The most effective treatments are combination therapies that are customized to an individual’s specific needs. Although treatments can be very effective, given the complex and not fully understood nature of melasma, it is very common for it to reoccur. For personalized guidance and help finding a trusted medical skincare professional near you, click here.
How to treat your melasma and keep it at bay
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The most effective approach is one that combines in-office treatments, products(s), and oral supplement(s).
Get a professional evaluation. The best thing you can do to maximize your outcome is to get professional advice. A treatment plan should be customized to your lifestyle, goals, skin type, treatment history, and budget. This kind of customized, combination approach has the best chance of improving the appearance of melasma and reducing the chance of reoccurrence.
If you’ve already been prescribed or recommended topical products to treat or maintain your melasma, make sure to keep in regular (once per month) contact with a medical skincare professional. Some topical ingredients should not be used long-term, during certain times of the year, or in combination with certain lifestyle activities. Unfortunately this isn’t always clearly communicated. Topical products can be incredibly effective but using them incorrectly can (at best) hinder your outcome and (at worst) lead to adverse side-effects.
Wear broad-spectrum UVA/UVB sunscreen every day, rain or shine. Put twice as much on as you think you should, and no, your makeup doesn’t count.
