MELE | What is Melanin?

What is melanin?

Melanin is the magic that makes your shade of amazing, quite frankly, amazing - at a cellular level.
But too much of this good thing can cause dark spots.

Who are we created for?

Find your shade of brown

Melanin-rich skin isn't unique to any one ethnicity. We're for melanin-rich people across ethnicities, from African American, to Hispanic to South and South East Asian and native people, who proudly celebrate the beauty of their melanin-rich skin.

Determine your unique shade of brown.
Determine your unique shade of brown.

Your shade of amazing explained.
 

Discover the unique properties of your unique melanated skin.
  • Melanin is a naturally produced pigment that exists in all skin. Your level of melanin determines your skin color. The more melanin your skin produces, the darker your skin.
  • This pigment is created by melanocytes in the skin. Melanocytes are the cells that make all that melanin magic.
  • Everyone has a similar amount of the melanocyte cells that produce melanin, but it’s the quantity of melanin that these cells produce that varies from person to person. Guess you could say, you’re biologically-unique.

Your shade of amazing explained.
 

Discover the unique properties of your unique melanated skin.
  • Melanin is a naturally produced pigment that exists in all skin. Your level of melanin determines your skin color. The more melanin your skin produces, the darker your skin.
  • This pigment is created by melanocytes in the skin. Melanocytes are the cells that make all that melanin magic.
  • Everyone has a similar amount of the melanocyte cells that produce melanin, but it’s the quantity of melanin that these cells produce that varies from person to person. Guess you could say, you’re biologically-unique.

Your shade of amazing explained.
 

Discover the unique properties of your unique melanated skin.
  • Melanin is a naturally produced pigment that exists in all skin. Your level of melanin determines your skin color. The more melanin your skin produces, the darker your skin.
  • This pigment is created by melanocytes in the skin. Melanocytes are the cells that make all that melanin magic.
  • Everyone has a similar amount of the melanocyte cells that produce melanin, but it’s the quantity of melanin that these cells produce that varies from person to person. Guess you could say, you’re biologically-unique.

Melanin is magic. But with good, comes some challenges.
 

Too much melanin production causes dark spots and hyperpigmentation.

Sun exposures, pollutants, scratches, skin inflammation and irritations over stimulate the enzyme resulting in an excess of melanin to the skin surface. That excess of melanin creates dark spots & hyperpigmentation (ie. age spots, melasma, PIH).

Discover how to prevent dark spots and hyperpigmentation that are prone in melanated skin.

Melanin is magic. But with good, come some challenges.
 

Too much melanin production causes dark spots and hyperpigmentation.

Sun exposures, pollutants, scratches, skin inflammation and irritations over stimulate the enzyme resulting in an excess of melanin to the skin surface. That excess of melanin creates dark spots & hyperpigmentation (ie. age spots, melasma, PIH).

Discover how to prevent dark spots and hyperpigmentation that are prone in melanated skin.

The science of melanin-rich skin is in our DNA because it's in yours, too.

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Melanin Amazing?