Hydroxatone Luminique Facial Brightener: in the Beauty Brains Bathroom
Skin lightening products are always controversial because it’s so hard to say if they really work or not. It takes months of usage to see if there truly is any change in skin pigmentation. So all we can really go by is the science of the ingredients that the products use.
In the case of Luminuque, that science is an ingredient called Diacetyl Boldine, an extract from the Chilean Boldo tree. You don’t see this used in very many skin lighteners and I could find no data published in peer-reviewed journals to show how it works. However, there does appear to be at least one, small study conducted by the manufacturer...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - January 1, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: thebeautybrains Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs
