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Doing several medium TCA peels such as a 20-30% TCA peel every month for 4-5 sessions do nice to lighten up dark areas, especially if sunscreen and bleaching creams also are used as well.
You could, but you could also risk further injuring the skin with a chemical peel in areas that are already hyperpigmented. Injury to the skin, especially Asian, Brown, East Indian or Black, is prone to hyperpigmenttion after injury, bites, surgery, sclerotherapy ...Sometimes, it takes up to 3 cycles of skin growth, 180 days each, for the hyperpigmentation to fade, if at all, without adjunctive therapy:There are some topical creams that we use for patients with hyperpigmentation from a myriad of causes in the legs: from venous insufficiency, following wounding, following surgery, following sclerotherapy ...We recommend Sclerovase and Scleroquin plus topical creams.You can add retinoid RR Complex Retinoid Repair Cream as well. Scler-x post inflammatory hyperigmentation relief complex is a great supplement to take as well. See link below.
Chemical peels can be risky in areas other than the face. Healing is much different in those areas. There are some pigment lightening medications so you might check with a dermatologist.
I would not recommend this. Try using sunscreen on the exposed areas. The color of your skin on your trunk, on the covered skin is the color you are generally supposed to be. See your doctor if there is a sudden or even gradually change in your skin color that cannot be explained by tanning.
Chemical peels do great for almost everyone. There are so many different peels and concentration that it can be tailored for about anyone. The light peels don't cause redness hardly at all and usually need to done several times while the medium concentration peels will cause 1-2 weeks of redness...
No professional studies have been done to test the safety of chemical peels while breast feeding. I recommend waiting until you have weaned your baby before doing cosmetic procedures.
Our treatments use combination therapy to improve the epidermis and dermis. We see atrophic and hypertrophic scars, as well as scars that have hypo and hyperpigmentation. Our main concern is rebuilding collagen and that is why we use a HIDEF protocol that includes combination therapy. Morpheus...