Author: Kathryn Lane
Source: ezinearticles.com

Suggestions on how to treat age spots are easy to come by.

There are prescription chemicals that help by irritating the skin, peeling it away. The skin might well be sore and will definitely get dry and sensitive. Especially, it will be super-sensitive to any sunshine.

Not many of us like the idea of having age spots removed surgically, but that will certainly work, too.

If you’re thinking there must be a better way, you are correct.

There is a natural substance that fades those annoying spots while it actually soothes and nourishes the skin, rather than irritating. Its skin-whitening ability was actually discovered by accident while German scientists were studying its ability to nourish the skin, in fact.

This skin care ingredient is an extract of the root of a plant called nutgrass, native to India. It’s a natural way to whiten your skin without any harmful side effects — making your skin look younger. It works on freckles, too.

It does all this by blocking the natural skin darkening pigment, melanin. Melanin is the source of the color in all dark spots on the skin, in freckles and moles. In fact, when the skin gets a tan, that happens by an overall production of melanin in the skin, darkening the overall skin color tone.

In a clinical trial, at a concentration of less than 1 percent as a skin care ingredient, the nutgrass root extract suppressed melanin production by more than 40 percent. And it showed promising anti-aging effects in the same testing regime, with no side effects reported.

It’s been trademarked by the name Extrapone Nutgrass Root.

So the gentle and natural way to deal with age spots is the best, in my opinion. You’ll see more detail on my website about skin nourishment and how to treat age spots.

Kathryn Lane is a longtime health and nutrition researcher. The best skincare products she has found have never been the most expensive or the most heavily advertised. Her website names them: http://www.health-and-skin-site.com/