Dermatologist Shereene Idriss shares how she treated her own melasma in her 30s. She combines multiple actives like vitamin C, glycolic acid, tranexamic acid, and retinol with prescription treatments, stressing that melasma needs a multi-ingredient approach, not a single fix.
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Which leads me to number two over the counter skincare. Skincare can be a very powerful tool and that is why having a solid over the counter skincare routine in addition to the prescriptions on and off is key. Everything you use has to target how you produce pigment. Which leads me to number three. It is not a single ingredient story. Vitamin C alone, glycolic acid alone, tranexamic acid alone, retinol alone are never going to help you or your melasma. You have to marry this whole list of active ingredients that target pigmentation in your routine. And that is why it is so key to find products that formulate these ingredients at effective levels together so you can minimize steps in your routine so you can actually overcome this. Let me know if you guys got questions below.