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So, yes I am still obsessed with the skin lightening project. In fact, I’ve started to make my own skin lightening creams for different purposes (in particular, 1) overall skin color lightening and 2) intensive post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation / acne scar fading serums.

The serums I make at home are focused on 3 major challenges

1) How to lighten with SPEED, accuracy, and potency.

2) How to lighten without prematurely aging the skin (many potent lightening ingredients, even natural ones, thin the skin and make your skin dry and crepe), i.e., boosting the serums with anti-aging and lifting antioxidants and moisturizers while

3) How to minimize acne, breakouts, and irritation that’s commonly associated with lightening creams and lightening products.

As you can see the above three challenges require me to almost come up with something “miraculous” by industry standards. But we all know that “Hope in a Bottle”, expensive price tags, fancy stores, pretty sales clerks, even impressive ingredients lists from cosmetic retail vendors REALLY DON’T cut it… no matter HOW vehement my envy, desire, “feigned need” or “ga ga” get when I’m browsing ritzy cosmetic counters and Sephora. Let’s just say that I’m leaving Sephora, Saks, and Neiman Marcus to COLOR COSMETICS, Luxuries, and FRAGRANCES.

When it comes to the IMPORTANT stuff — corrective and preventative skin care… I’m trusting ME and taking matters into my own hands. =)

The real fun in making my own serum, even for some readers here on this blog, is in PACKING IN THE ACTIVE INGREDIENTS ALL I WANT.

Rather than seeing 2%, 0.5% active ingredients, I can add up to 50% a single active ingredient in my serums.

This means that if I’m mixing 10 different active ingredients into a serum… the serum has about 95% potency. Hehe.

So I’m going to share 3 different recipes that are customized weekly depending on what my skin tells me to do.

1) All purpose skin lightening

2) Acne prone skin skin lightening & acne scar treatment when susceptible to acne

3) Acne spot lightening treatment mask (oil free)

Extra: Exfoliation is important for skin lightening and keeping your skin blemish free.

The most important exfoliants I use is a combination of chemical and physical. Of course when I go to the cosmetic counters, skin care spas or have chats chats with sales reps, the response I usually get on my regimen is firstly: “that’s so harsh! Isn’t that too much for your skin? … wow that sounds SOOO fun… I want to do that too.” and then the conversation would turn into this heated, passionate discussion on what to do to make your own uber potent, uber strong, uber effective skin care serums that you can modify ALLLLLL YOU WANT.

1) 15% Mandelic acid from www.Nucelle.com
2) St. Ive’s Apricot scrub for blackheads and blemish prone skin with 2% Salicylic Acid
3) for rare occasions: Kripp’s Pharmacy Deep Skin Cleanser and Antibacterial 2.5% Salicylic Acid, 8% Glycolic Acid, Allantoin, Lipoic Acid, and Resorcinol .78%
4) Free Sugar Scrub (for when I’m traveling, easy to pack, cheap and dispensable): grab honey packets and brown sugar packets (normal sugar will do too) from cafes or breakfast stands. Mix and scrub over wet skin at your hotel at night before you apply the active functional serums.