Black Skin Care Products

Black skin is found among the people from Africa, native Australia, Africa, America, and other Islands. This type of skin is darker than the northern European skin because they have increased amount of melanin in their skin. Melanin is considered as the main pigment in the skin that can protects the skin from sunlight and fight against aging. Due to this pigment black people look younger than the white skinned people. When black people age, then their skin becomes pigmented. This then becomes visible in the form of dark patches on the skin.

There are many black skin care products available in the market. African American skin care may be sometimes different from that of the Caucasians and Asians. The main reason behind this is that black skin care products need heavy oil that can penetrate deep in the skin and therefore leaves the skin healthy and sometimes abundantly oily. The best black skin products are Emu oil products.

The people with black skin must not use skin lighteners or the bleaching creams that contain steroids. The reason behind this is that these compounds can cause permanent skin damage that may include permanent redness, blood vessel thinning and streaks. Besides this, the skin lighteners or the bleaching creams that contain mercury should also be avoided as this is a kind of poison. For black skin you can use the products that contain tretinoin because this helps to treat irregular pigmentation. Besides this, you can use Jessner’s solution that can be applied once a week to the dark areas and helps to lighten the hyper pigmentation. Products that contain hydroquinone like Obagi Nu-Derm System can be used that can lighten the dark areas and can treat the hyper pigmentation very well.  These products when used in combination with skin firming lotions, body firming lotions and skin firming crème helps you to get firm and fairer skin.

Tips for the protection of dark skin:

• The best way to ensure healthy dark skin is to have maximum protection from the sun. An average woman with the brown skin can use a natural SPF of 13. These sunscreens absorb the harmful UVA (ultraviolet A) and UVB ultraviolet B rays before they affect the skin. This act as sun blocks that can create a protective barrier and can reflects back the UV rays, so that they can bounce off the skin. Dark skin women must always use sunscreen daily. Sunscreen must be applied atleast 20 minutes before you expose your skin to the sun. Sunscreen must be applied generously to the skin that includes face, neck and hands. Sunscreen must not be used the expiration dates. It must be applied before applying makeup.
• The final step that must be taken to care for your healthy dark skin is that you must nurture your skin. For this purpose, use only high quality soaps, toners, cleansers, moisturizers, anti-aging products, astringents, and anti-acne agents.

You must avoid using:

• Cleansers, toners or the astringents that contain alcohol, propylene glycol, dyes, or fragrance.
• Products that contain essential oils and oil extracts from plants.
• Moisturizers that contain fragrance, dye, lanolin, alcohol or propylene glycol.
• Sunscreens that contain fragrance, oil, or PABA.
• Makeup that contains more oil.
• Detergents and fabric softeners that contain fragrance, dyes, or preservatives.