If you had a majic wand, what qualities would you want to have in a dream skin lightening product?

Anything that would get rid of my white spots from mono usage

Oh gosh! I would want it to clear up any acne on the face and the marks that acne leaves behind as well as lightening the skin around it. I would want it to lighten skin about a shade a week, oh! And brighten the skin too. How I wish this cream existed... :)

Wel, there are repigmenting treatments that can help assist with bringing back the color of the whitened areas of the skin:

- oral medications for repigmentation, PUVA (Psoralen & Ultra-Violet A light)
- psoralen treatmentment
- Autologous skin grafts
- Excimer laser. They emit narrow band ultraviolet B light and have been shown to promote re-pigmentation
- Covermark and Dermablend are special drug store cosmetics that can be used to match most skin hues when medical treatment is not helpful.
- Sunless tanning preparations to darken the vitiligo
- Micropigmentation (tattooing)
http://www.aocd.org/skin/dermatologi.../vitiligo.html

- skin transplants using skin taken from normally-pigmented areas of their own bodies
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2004/10/18/5670.aspx

Doi.wiley.com/10.1002/9780470987568.ch33
http://www.springerlink.com/index/62857v4411747p86.pdf

A shade a week, that sounds sweet.. lol. But for acne marks, I use retin-a 0.05%/hq. The retin-a and sunblock works well on it's own and most of my acne spots are now gone or at least 50% faded.

Yea, SWEET as hell! Im using retin a right now also, same percent as you. Im ordering the hq soon. What percent would u suggest in hq?

The hq 4% works very well, no need to go any higher than 4-5%.

All right. 4% it is! Systems a-go! Thanks GG.

Much luck to you

If I had a magic wand I wouldn't even wish for a lightening cream. Just permanent light skin

I would wish for one that everyone would buy at a terribly high price to make me rich,

Once I was rich, who cares what color my skin is

Yaay! Just make it permanent, me too!


I would love to be rich $$, unfortunately there are too many lighteners with terribly high prices :(

Yes but if I had one that worked fast, every time on everybody, no one else would stay in business.

But I respect those charging high prices, really, I used to sell a product that was similar to others but ours cost almost twice as much. Service was part of what we sold, but in the end it was the selling that gave us the money. If I thought I could make money with it ( and it was not legal issues in the US on some of these products) I would buy some of the cheap items, package them and sell them for out of the world prices,
Nothing illegal or wrong with that, in fact that is almost the American way

Well definitely a product that wasn't dangerous, maybe like a natural product that was fast, effective, and more permanent. Something that made your skin brighter, with a healthy glow.

Yep good old capitalism the BEDROCK of our fine Country

Thank you very much gg

I would say something safe and very effective that could lighten up to 5-7 shades... lol, and your results would be permanent without having to use continuously forever and ever (only sunblock). Natural-looking results, and they would be offered at a nice bulky size to use for the whole body but only cost like $10-15

Golden that's right along the lines of what I would want too but, the only difference is I would want it to work even without sunblock!

Yes. Life without sunblock, what a dream!

YES. This is what dreams are made of!!