to brighten your skin first you have to understand what made it darker to begin with. typically that's something called inflammation. that inflammation can be from something that irritated your skin like a product you used that your skin didn't like and that caused a reaction that made it red and then the red can heal towards brown before it fades away or from a pimple or acne or rosacea or it can be from sun exposure where your skin makes a tan. even people with skin of color can still make a tan and what that often looks like is skin that's more blotchy or uneven. if you are taking an oral contraceptive pill and go in the sun that can cause a blotchy uneven skin tone called melasma. so we use brightening creams to help lighten this. the gold standard brightening cream is a product or an ingredient called hydroquinone and this i prefer to be given by the dermatologist because we like to have control over the concentration of the product that's used and how long it's used for. hydroquinones can also be combined with over-the-counter ingredients that work really well like sepiwhite liquorice extract or mulberry root extract and that combined with antioxidants like niacinamide. and green tea or grape tea extracts or grape seed extracts or things like caffeine can also have an added benefit to your skin in helping even out the skin tone without bleaching your skin. that's the word i don't like using. these are brighteners and not bleaches.
what's the best skin lightening cream; i am darker skinned?