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What Is Kojic Acid? Creams With This Ingredient Could Help Brighten Dark Spots

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Combatting discoloration and hyperpigmentation can feel like uphill battles, leaving you feeling frustrated after buying expensive treatment creams that don’t live up to their hype. With an enormous amount of skin care products out there claiming to lighten pesky dark spots, the best weapon is knowing what ingredients have been scientifically proven to work.

If your latest skin care goal entails obtaining a more even, brighter complexion, you might want to look to mushrooms for a solution. While consuming certain fungi could work wonders, a naturally-derived ingredient that comes from mushrooms, kojic acid, could be useful for treating discoloration or hyperpigmentation and is often used in cream or serum form. It also provides antioxidant protection. Kojic acid creams can act like a godsend for anyone suffering from melasma, sun damage or those annoying marks that proclaim you once had a blemish there.

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