What To Do If You Have Sunspots On Your Skin

Sunspots on Skin

If you haven't figured it out currently, the sun is a powerful enemy to the skin. Certainly, the vitamin D it offers is excellent and helps to have healthy skin, but if you are exposed to the sun even just the slightest too much, the repercussions are quite serious. Some people tend to produce what are known as sunspots on skin. These spots can be actually alarming due to the matter that they resemble the starting stages of cancerous cells on your skin, but that is not always the case.

Sunspots are dark, planet-sized parts that appear on the "surface" of the Sun. Sunspots are "dark" because they are colder than the regions around them. A large sunspot might have a temperature of about 3,900 K. This is much lower than the 5,700 K temperature of the bright photosphere that around the sunspots.
Sunspots are only dark contrary to the bright face of the Sun. If you could cut an average sunspot out of the Sun and place it in the night sky, it would be about as bright as a full moon. Sunspots have a lighter outer part referred to as the penumbra, and a darker middle area called the umbra.

Sunspots form over periods lasting from weeks to months, and can last for months or even years. The average number of spots that can be seen on the surface of the Sun is not always the same, but goes up and down in a cycle. Historical records of sunspot counts tell us that this sunspot cycle has an average period of about ten years.

How to Get Rid of Sunspots?

Thanks to the modern miracles of medication and technology, there are ways that to remove sunspots from your skin. There are medications that come in the form of creams, pills and even soaps. Or, if you have lots of cash to throw around, you can go for laser skin lightening. This is very pricey but quite effective at removing dark spots of any kind from the skin.

We have found that it's very effective, and loads cheaper, to just use a skin lightening cream to get rid of these spots, though. Laser surgery costs several hundred dollars per session but an effective, reliable skin lightening cream can be bought for as little as $45. Creams work to balance the tones of your skin from the inside out and they work rather well. And if you decide to use a skin lightener, you can see results in as little as 14 days of use.