Fade Age Spots Fast (at Home Inexpensively)Updated a day ago

You spend years avoiding the sun, yet these spots, they keep showing up.  

      Age spots, liver spots, sunspots, whatever you wanna call them.  

      You just want them gone.  

      And here's the truth.  

      You don't need lasers, peels, or $500 serums.  

      You can fade them at home faster than most people actually realize.  

      We'll look at a powerful study in a few minutes.  

      To back up this exact combination for those wanting a deeper dive.  

      I do provide CO2 lasers, erbium, YAG IPL, all of those things in my  

      clinic, including deep chemical peels.  

      I love them, but they can cost in thousands and they need  

      repeating and there's downtime.  

      You actually have two items in your cabinet right now.  

      I can almost bet you do.  

      You have them already, but when used correctly together, they're a powerhouse.  

      I'm going to tell you exactly how to combine them today.  

      Let's go through part one quickly.  

      Why do age spots stick around and why do they seemingly multiply?  

      I hear it every day in Clinic, doc.  

      I had two or three now I got five or six.  

      I got rid of these three.  

      Four more came up.  

      Well, age spots, they're little clumps of melanin.  

      Your skin pigment stuck in the wrong place.  

      They often come from sun exposure, hormone shifts, even  

      inflammation after procedures, post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation,  

      PIH, even more stubborn.  

      Now, imagine your skin is a slow moving escalator.  

      This is today's video.  

      You gotta think of this when we're young.  

      That escalator, it moves quickly.  

      So the old cells move quickly to the top.  

      They're slept off.  

      New cells take over, but after 40, that escalator slows down  

      and those pigment clumps.  

      They stay visible.  

      They're stuck in age skin.  

      So to fade them, you need to speed up that escalator again.  

      You need to kind of boost it and target that melanin inside.  

      That's where these two power players come in a HA.  

      And retinol.  

      That's the ones there.  

      Alpha hydroxy acid and a retinol.  

      So let's go to part two here.  

      The power combo, the ha, think glycolic acid, that's the most common one I use,  

      and you guys likely have in your cabinet.  

      It's a chemical exfoliant as opposed to a physical exfoliant.  

      Think of a physical one, like an abrasive brush, a stoned, a sugar scrub, or  

      like microderm abrasion in your clinic.  

      A HA is much preferred for the face and the skin than physical derm Abrasions  

      ha alpha hydroxy acid dissolves the glue that's between the dead skin cells.  

      Think of it like a glue, and it gently resurfaces your skin.  

      Gently.  

      Then comes retinol.  

      The second one here, that's the gold standard.  

      It speeds up cell turnover, it fades pigmentation from below from  

      the deeper layers, and it regulates that melanin that I talked about.  

      So you see the difference.  

      These are two very different mechanisms of action from two  

      basic creams that you have at home.  

      When you layer them, they don't just work, they synergize, and  

      you guys like data and studies.  

      A 2006 study.  

      Published in dermatologic surgery found that the combination of a 15%,  

      so there's your dose, 15% glycolic acid and a 0.1% retinoic acid was  

      significantly more effective at fading hyperpigmentation than either one  

      ingredient alone over a 12 week period.  

      Now you have the duration.  

      From that study, at least participants saw more noticeable  

      fading and better skin texture.  

      Texture's important because that's light reflection.  

      When you reflect light, well, you look younger.  

      So what I'm telling you today isn't hype.  

      It's clinically backed info.  

      So now let's move on to part three.  

      How do you exactly layer these two safely and effectively?  

      Safely and effectively because you can do a lot of things.  

      They're not safe.  

      Think of it like prepping a wall before you paint.  

      A HA is gonna be your primer.  

      It removes the gunk, it gets rid of the surface, gets it ready, preps  

      it, and retinol is your paint.  

      It goes deeper and it fixes the actual problem.  

      Here's exactly how to do it correctly.  

      A, you're gonna cleanse with a gentle non stripping cleanser.  

      You don't have to strip things off for this to work.  

      You don't need raw skin.  

      Quite the contrary.  

      Remember that PIHI talked about?  

      Yeah, that's what that would do.  

      B. Apply your a HA use a 10 to 15% glycolic serum, uh, or even an  

      exfoliating pad, like a HA peel pad.  

      You wanna let that absorb for about 10 to 15 minutes.  

      C, you wanna apply your retinol, start with 0.5% if you're new.  

      Then you can work up to 1%.  

      Let that absorb for another 10 minutes.  

      If you wanna level up here, use what I use, which is a Retin aldehyde.  

      It's stronger than retinol, it's less irritating than retinoic acid.  

      And I'll link a video at the end of this if you want to deeper  

      dive into what rein aldehyde is.  

      I actually use Retin Aldehyde retinol and retinal palmitate in my formula.  

      With THD as sorbate, which is a vitamin C, that as you'll see, also  

      brightened skin and D here, you wanna finish with a lightweight moisturizer.  

      Avoid a thick occlusive here like Vaseline.  

      Let the actives do their job.  

      Start with this routine two nights a week and work your way up to every other night.  

      Depending on your skin's tolerance, not everyone needs  

      that, uh, frequency of a dose.  

      And of course you don't want more spots.  

      So during the day, always use SPF 50 or higher.  

      Quick note here, as you see, let's say you had an IPL or a laser and we stripped  

      your whole Aesop, you had no brown spots.  

      Yeah, you're gonna see more come up.  

      Why?  

      Because you got them 10 or 20 years ago.  

      They're down there, they're just working their way forward in a sense.  

      It's a simple way of thinking of it.  

      But skin damage that you've done years and years ago, it's deeper than you think.  

      Now about that vitamin C, how do I include it with a rein aldehyde in mind?  

      Well, THD is sorbate.  

      If you follow this channel, you know, THD Ascorbate, that's the one you want to use.  

      It's fat soluble key here and stable.  

      Now, if you have an IC at home, um, let's say the, the, the traditional water  

      soluble, of course those are unstable.  

      Chances are it's not active.  

      But if you make it fresh and you like it, perfect, use that on a  

      separate day or in the morning.  

      When you're using these two ingredients at night, do not mix your L ascorbic  

      with the HA and the retinol unless you're using something like mine, the  

      THD Ascorbic, very different products.  

      Before we go on to important tips, here's that powerful study.  

      Here's an interesting study looking at a very tough problem  

      related to pigment, acnes scarring.  

      Especially devastating for our kids, but we can learn about pigment from this.  

      It's retinoic acid and glycolic acid combination in  

      the treatment of acne scars.  

      A retrospective assessment of 35 patients, so a good number using  

      topical RAGA, retinoic acid and glycolic acid in combination with acne scars.  

      The subjects were 17 to 34 years old.  

      Previously treated for active acne case records and photographs of each  

      patient were assessed, so we liked that and the acne scars were even graded.  

      We liked that.  

      At the end of 12 weeks, significant improvement occurred in acne scars in get  

      this 91.4% of their patients very high.  

      Why is this important to your sunspots?  

      It shows that this combination can help with the toughest of problems for  

      pigment, and that is acne scarring.  

      Let's move on.  

      Now you're gonna say, but Rajani, I'm sensitive skin.  

      So for you sensitive skin people out there, you can alternate  

      nights with your a HA and retinol.  

      You don't have to use them both on the same night.  

      Totally acceptable.  

      I have complete routines on my website, store dot rajani md.com  

      if you want to personalize.  

      Your skin routine by entering a few simple questions that I ask online about  

      your skin type and what you're on and what your most important issues are,  

      and your skin sensitivity and quality.  

      It's all electronic.  

      We call it Quiz md, and you can find it [email protected].  

      Now onto 0.4, and this is key.  

      Key, key.  

      What should you expect?  

      Because this is where people make the biggest mistakes, consistency wins.  

      Patience, give it four to six weeks for the fading to begin.  

      Some spots are gonna fade quickly.  

      Others can take months depending on how deep the pigment sits, and you can only  

      know how deep it is if you have a special 3D camera like I have in my clinic.  

      So don't be discouraged.  

      Some take longer.  

      No problem.  

      The biggest mistake people make.  

      Is doing too much too fast.  

      Don't pile on other actives like scrubs, benzoyl peroxide, or harsh acids.  

      The combo I'm giving you if using quality products is enough.  

      Fading age spots is not about throwing more products at your face.  

      It's about using the right ingredients in the right way at the right time.  

      This AJ Retinol combination works.  

      If you let it, and it works faster than anything I've seen short.  

      Of an expensive laser.  

      Now take my free skin quiz if you're not sure where to start, and if you're  

      ready to fade those spots, you'll find the exact routine I use with my patients.  

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      this video, or simply go to my website.  

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      struggling with dark spots.  

      And remember, great skin is a process, but it doesn't have to be complicated.