Anti-Aging Skin Care: ‘Age’ Spot Treatment Options
Before describing the wide range of age spot treatments and remedies available today, it’s important to understand exactly what these brown, flat, blotchy spots really are. Because they typically show up on the skin (hands, neck, face, shoulders) of men and women over the age of 50 or so, they are most commonly known as ‘age’ spots, but they are also called ‘liver’ spots and, sometimes, ’sun’ spots. The medical term for these skin discolorations is ‘lentigines’ or ‘lentigos’. ‘Liver’ spots is, in reality, a misnomer; these spots are not related to liver function in any way.