Skin is the most important and biggest component of the body. It is a covering and protective layer, and it contributes to the beauty and grace of a person. No other component of the body is as important for personal grooming as hair and skin.
The pigmentation process of skin plays an important role in the beauty of skin. Today, people are more conscious about skin care, and precious skin care products are being used for different skin care problems.
Skin coloration or pigmentation is the most common skin problem.
Here are some skin diseases and the terms relating to skin care, like pigmentation, hypo-pigmentation, hyper-pigmentation, melanin, and melanocytes.
Vitiligo
Vitiligo is most common pigmentation disorder due to the hypo-pigmentation in skin. Vitiligo causes white patches on skin and it has been observed, in these patches melanocytes (skin cells that produces melanin) cells are not found.
About 2 percent of the total population is suffering from this pigmentation disorder and the causes of vitiligo are still not known with certainty. However, this is understood that the major causes of vitiligo is destruction of melanocytes cells and resulting in the lack of melanin.
Albinism
Albinism is also an example of hypo-pigmentation, but unlike vitiligo is totally inherited disorder and all the body is universally depigmented.
Vitiligo and Albinism are skin conditions due to the depigmenation of skin or lack of skin coloring. And there are some other skin conditions that resemble these, except a large number of skin problems are due to the hyper-pigmentation in skin.
Pigmentation of Skin
Process responsible of maintaining the natural coloration of skin is termed as pigmentation of skin. The irregularities in the pigmentation of process of skin are generally termed as depigmentation or hyper-pigmentation etc.
Skin is not only the covering and bordering layering of body it gives great contribution to the beauty and grace of a person.
Hyper-pigmentation
Pigmentation disorder in which dark spot appears on skin and skin became darker as compare to its surrounding is termed as hyper-pigmentation. A common example of hyper-pigmentation is melasma in which dark spots appear on the cheeks and top of nose.
