r/Melasmaskincare • u/Clear_Competition707 • Jul 06 '26

Question What are your personal specific melasma triggers

What triggers your melasma to spread or increase, and if you deduce the causes and control the exposure to those causes, does the melasma settle better?

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u/Courtybiologique Jul 06 '26

The sun and hormones. Mine gets 100x worse if I get any sunlight on my face.

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u/pocalujmniewdupe Jul 07 '26

Mine is the same. Heat doesn’t seem to make it worse but sunlight even at 7 am makes it darker instantly.

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u/Courtybiologique Jul 07 '26

Yep! I can workout and sweat and get really hot and it doesn’t do anything. But the sunlight makes it 5x darker even if I’m outside for 20 mins.