Dr. Ashish Bhatia - American Health and Beauty - Lumixyl

Lumixyl Brightens Skin Without Harmful Toxic Side Effects

Hydroquinone has fallen out of favor and is now banned in Europe because of its cytotoxic effects. Luckily, consumers can now turn to Lumixyl, a safe and effective alternative.

Skin discoloration is a common factor in aging. Age spots, brown spots and sun damage all cause the skin to lose it's original smooth coloring and add years to your face. The traditional treatment is hydroquinone, which has fallen out of favor due to concerns about toxicity. Now a new treatment is available called Lumixyl which brightens the skin without the use of hydroquinone.

At the recent annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology, Keith Veseleny, Editor of American Health & Beauty, spoke to Dr. Ashish Bhatia, a board certified dermatologist in Chicago, IL at The Dermatology Institute of Naperville. "Lumixyl is one of the newest compounds out there that is used for skin lightening. Traditionally we have hydroquinone which is used for this purpose, but now we have something else. It's really an exciting product," says Dr. Bhatia. "It's exciting because it's a natural peptide that's used and it doesn't have any cytotoxic properties, and it's shown to be quite effective in helping with skin pigmentation." Dr. Bhatia advises, "Hydroquinone is a great compound. It's been used worldwide, but there has been some cytotoxicity associated with hydroquinone and in fact, it's actually been banned in Europe. So we need a new product that we can use to help with pigmentation."

"[Lumixyl] can be used for a variety of pigmentation issues; melasma, post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation or even superficial pigmentation from other causes. We use it on a variety of our patients, pretty much everywhere we used to use hydroquinone." Dr. Bhatia goes on to point out that it is useful for sunspots or agespots, but there are certain conditions which Lumixyl will not help with. "You cannot use it for seborrheac keratosis or any other lesions you couldn't fade normally with hydroquinone."

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