Q: How arbutin helps in lightening sunspots?
A: Arbutin is a natural skin lightening agent. It is all-natural and can be extracted from bearberry, blueberry, cranberry, and pears. It works well on sun spots, age spots, acne spots, and melasma.
Furthermore, arbutin prevents future spots and hyperpigmentation from developing, even after a sunburn.
Melanin is produced when an enzyme called tyrosinase makes the amino acid tyrosine, and then the tyrosine gets passed off to cells called melanocytes that convert the tyrosine into melanin.
Arbutin disrupts this chain of events by telling tyrosinase to pause on the tyrosine production. So without tyrosine, melanocytes have nothing to work with which limits the melanin production in our skin.
Arbutin stops any extra production of melanin: less tyrosine and less melanin means less pigment, less dark spots, and a more even complexion.
Arbutin evens and brightens our complexion making them look healthier and vibrant.
Topical treatment of arbutin has been shown to treat melasma as well as severe dark areas. All the power without the bad side effects.
