There is some impressive science to back up claims that alpha arbutin is a good skin lightener that you can use without risk.
We ran across the results of a medical study that put it very plainly: “Alpha arbutin is an effective and safe ingredient for skin lightening.” We dug up the study, to make certain it was not based on fly-by-night science.
Alpha Arbutin is an old homeopathic remedy that used to be put on wounds. People discovered it lightened the skin around the wound.
Alpha arbutin was put to a scientific test. A study, in Japan, was titled “Inhibitory Effects of Alpha-Arbutin on Melanin…”. Doctor K. Sugimoto and his colleagues at the Biochemical Research Lab in Osaka, Japan wanted to know if alpha arbutin inhibits melanin from growing in human cells.
- Why melanin? It gives skin dark color. To fade skin color you have to inhibit the body’s production of melanin. Then your skin lightens, moles tone down, and dark circles under the eyes fade.
- Why? Because your body constantly makes new skin, and throws out the old. The new skin has less melanin. Old dark skin is shed naturally.
- Why Japan? Asians have been lightening skin for centuries. It’s cultural. The doctors wanted to be sure the alpha arbutin so commonly used in their country was safe in products sold throughout Asia.
The Japanese medical investigators put human skin cells to the test. Their big concern was that if you interrupt melanin, the whole cell becomes abnormal.
They were able to report that alpha arbutin cut melanin production by more than half but had no other effect on cells developing normally.
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