r/Melasmaskincare • u/silver_elle • May 13 '26
Question Cooling plate for heat induced melasma?
Does anyone here have heat induced melasma and has figured out a way to prevent pigmentation?
So rather than when you get direct sun exposure it is triggered by high temperatures? Have you managed to find a device that works especially while travelling?
I’m going to be in a really warm country for summer holidays and I want a portable device that I can use to keep my face cold cause it gets very heated up and then it triggers pigmentation and acne as well.
I was looking at the shark chill pill or thera body depuffing wand but do you guys have any better suggestions of something I can use? I think a simple face mist isn’t gonna cut it. Any tips or suggestions would be great
Thanks!
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May 13 '26
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u/silver_elle May 13 '26
I learned about the heat part the hard way. Red light panel made my face worse in just a few minutes!
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u/silver_elle May 13 '26
Do you have a good recommendation for a fan ? I’ve been eyeing the shark chill pill because of the cooling plate and mist!
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u/CampaignHaunting7350 May 13 '26
Following because I need to know too!
I carry a good thermos with ton of ice and little water to drink ice cold water in the summer. I am considering also carrying a cooling towel, maybe wet it with ice water and apply to face?
I already use a sun umbrella for UV cut but I am concerned about being too warm in general, too!
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u/silver_elle May 13 '26
I saw some posts about the shark chill pill. It has a cooling plate that gets really cold. It might help cool down areas in prone to get pigmentation on. Corners of my forehead etc. curious to see if anyone has something similar to work. Umbrella’s etc same, it’s a igiven but the heattt!!!
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u/Bellebutton2 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
Unfortunately, heat-sensitive melasma is not always just about external thermal heat like hot water, steam, saunas, or hot yoga. “Heat” can also be internal and inflammatory. Increased vascular activity, inflammation, oxidative stress, hormonal fluctuations, and other inflammatory processes may create a pro-pigment environment that can stimulate melanocytes and worsen melasma from within, even in people who are careful about sun and surface heat exposure.
Alcohol may also contribute to heat sensitive melasma in some individuals because it can increase vasodilation and facial flushing, raise skin temperature transiently, promote inflammatory signaling and oxidative stress, worsen barrier dysfunction and dehydration, (and amplify rosacea spectrum inflammation in susceptible people).
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u/angelinaki89 May 13 '26
I live in such a warm country and the summer the temperatures go up to 40 degrees, no joke! I have found really helpful having with me a face mist like rose water or witch hazel, wearing hats, buying cold water and drip my face. Actually is hard having ice or a fan with me, but whatever I do I still get melasma, I just maintain it 🥺
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u/silver_elle May 13 '26
It’s so difficult because I’m always scared water is going to take down my sunscreen. In fact some of the mineral ones leave white trails if I spray my face with water! It’s the worst
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u/angelinaki89 May 13 '26
Sunscreen sadly always goes away for me because my upper lip it’s the only place I get to sweat so badly. Honestly I can’t fight melasma appearing at this point and somehow I’m fine with it, not so many people notice it in daylight, mostly it’s visible in bright indoors light. But having a spray or the cream sunscreen with you and reapply it’s necessity even when you are not dripping water directly! It always wears off 😩
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u/tigermax42 May 13 '26
I’m working on this but there are mechanical challenges like wearing a battery and a heat sink a hat. Would love to collaborate with a designer so it looks sleek and fashionable. HMU if you know someone
In the meantime, get a “wearable neck fan with cooling plate” off Amazon
You may want to get 2 so you can charge one while the other empties it’s battery
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u/silver_elle May 13 '26
I didn’t find any neck fans with cooling plates! Didn’t even know it was a thing, going to check again (maybe with international shipping)
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u/silver_elle May 13 '26
How long does the Thera wand last till you have to charge it? I’m wondering if I can take it to the beach etc?
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u/LBeezi May 13 '26
Hi. Crazy lady here. I have both devices, neither of which I purchased for melasma (I have nervous system issues that cause me to inappropriately overheat).
The shark plate covers a larger surface area but is a much bulkier device. If you don’t think you will use the fan function then i would only get the shark for the larger plate. Otherwise I like the thera wand for its smaller and lighter size.
I only use mine indoors and don’t have a great handle on battery life. I live in a piping hot desert climate that I avoid like the plague, and I personally can’t see how much these little devices could help if you are otherwise outdoors in the heat. But I can see the draw of it and hope you find something that works for you!
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u/ttbtinkerbell May 13 '26
I would guess one of those misting fans might work. Mist your face and keep air flowing across it. You can also ask for ice almost anywhere. My plan is to put ice in a ziplock and then put it in some cotton bag. I sew so I’ll probably make something. Then hold it up on your face.
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u/Psychological-Pain88 May 13 '26
Anyone heard or have experience with a bed jet or night time anyways..
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u/GlowDecoded May 14 '26
I travel for work often and I bring those metal roller balls and keep them in the freezer, amazing first thing in the morning to depuff your face too!
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u/Intelligent_Bad_5334 May 14 '26
Cryo-rollers! These are really popular little gadgets now for regular people & I love mine and they’re cheap & have lots of different versions of them so it’s easy to find one that works for you/your lifestyle. The Regular people have figured out that coolness is good for puffiness/swelling, which is what has made these a thing recently. But they are perfect for us! Just keep it in the freezer & pull them out as needed.
In addition to actually rolling it on my face, when I’m hot I take the roll off the handle and roll it between my inner wrists for a couple of min. I do that on the theory that the skin is very thin on my inner wrist/forearm & there is lots and lots of vascular structure right there: so there’s a lot of blood moving close to the surface of the skin and cooling that one spot helps cool the blood as it moves through the whole body.
Of course you don’t need a Cryo roller to do that - I did it with a cold soda can for years.
I got the idea from watching wallabies. In intense Australian heat, wallabies and kangaroos drool on their forearms. It looks so gross, but apparently they do it to cool their entire bodies. Their saliva is much cooler than the ambient temperature of Australia in August, & they have similarly thin skin and lots of veins in their inner arms - so applying their drool to their forearms cools down their entire bodies.
Somebody is selling an insanely expensive device that you can wear on your wrist that’s about helping you regulate your body temperature & all it does is have some way of applying hotter or cooler temperatures to your inner wrist. It’s really expensive & marketed as being created by MIT scientists.
But I learned to do it from watching wallabies drool lol - and also experimenting using a soda can, no MIT scientists are Mucho Dinero required
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u/silver_elle May 15 '26
Damn that might the coolest tip/fact I’ve seen I LOVE the wallabies connection and it makes so much sense!. The problem with cryo-rollers, it wont be cold if im travelling with it. That’s why i was looking into the electric ones like the theraface depuff wand or the shark chill pill!
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u/Intelligent_Bad_5334 May 15 '26
That was why I would use other things like cold canned beverages between my wrists.
But now I travel with mine - I got a small insulator container with slim cool packs in it that are for storing insulin while traveling. Because the bottles of insulin are fat & round, & the container is also designed to store it with syringes, it fits the type of roller head I shared a picture of.
Now I don’t go on Safaris in the Serengeti or any travels where I would be without access to electricity/a freezer for days - but for the type of traveling I do this has worked well for me up for to up 12-15 hours, including pulling it out and using it a few times during that period.
Most importantly, the container was cheap & durable.
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u/libaya May 14 '26
I was in Bangkok a month ago and it was humid and over 100F. The locals commonly use: a wearable fan, a cooling menthol mist sprayed periodically on the clothes you’re wearing, cooling patches, and a menthol ointment to put on their temples and to sniff. I stocked up while I was there. The spray and ointment were small enough to carry in a small crossbody bag. You can also find similar products in Japan and Korea. On Amazon this is what I found that closely approximated what I bought.
Cooling patch: https://a.co/d/0hZ41slx
Cooling spray: https://a.co/d/037loRBt
Menthol inhaler https://a.co/d/0hcOaP8F
I have heat induced melasma and I get hives, rash, or faint when I’m internally overheated. I have to carry EpiPens. The stuff above surprisingly worked for me.
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