Common Causes of Body Skin Pigmentation and Application of Cosmetic Ingredients
This review summarized the common causes of body skin pigmentation and their mechanisms,as well as cosmetic ingredients and their mechanisms that help improve skin pigmentation.Common causes of skin pigmentation on the body include UV,skin inflammation,mechanical friction,hormonal changes,and disease and drug induction.Cosmetic ingredients that help to improve skin pigmentation can be classified by their mechanisms as consumption of melanin substrates,reducing tyrosinase production,decreasing tyrosinase activity,inhibiting melanosome transport,promoting melanosome degradation,antioxidant and anti-inflammatory.In the future,when developing cosmetic products for body skin pigmentation,the causes of skin pigmentation in the corresponding areas can be combined with the mechanisms of the ingredients to achieve a multi-targeted comprehensive improvement of the body skin pigmentation.