What is pigmentation and how do I prevent unbalanced pigmentation?
Pigmentation disorders are caused by myriad of factors, which sun damage, hormonal imbalance, and skin trauma or disease. Of all these causes, sun damage is both the most common and the most easily prevented. Simply applying a sunscreen with a minimum SPF15 every day, and avoiding peak sun times around midday.

Hormonal imbalance, a cause of pigmentation mostly affecting women, can occur during any time that the body’s natural hormone balance is disturbed, these triggers can include
Hormonal changes, such as those that happen during the menstrual cycle, menopause, prolonged stress, pregnancy or even when taking birth control pills. Unlike pigmentation related to trauma or sun damage, hormonally-induced hyper-pigmentation generally disappears when balance is restored to the body, and it can be treated during the interim
period with topical skin brighteners.