How to get rid of freckles?

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What products, ingredients, or home remedies are you using to get rid of freckles? Any comments or suggestions?

 
Natural remedies you can use:

Wash your face with sour milk. Lactic acid will provide gentle peeling effect without irritating or drying your skin.

Lemon juice is a time proven freckle fighting remedy. It is not necessary to rub your skin with a piece of lemon. Applying the juice with your fingers will do the job.

Fruit and vegetable masks (apricots, strawberries, cucumbers, red currant).

Sour cream mask. Do not rinse this mask completely, just remove gently with a facial tissue, then apply a moisturizer. For oily skin - use lemon juice before applying the mask.

Natural parsley juice (or parsley infusion) mixed with equal amounts of lemon juice, orange juice, and red currant juice under your favorite cream will help you keep your freckles invisible.

Last but not least - increase your Vitamin C intake! It makes your skin less sensitive to the sun. Foods rich in vitamin C include citrus fruits, apples, green onions, black and red currant, rosehip tea

 
I don't think there is any way to actually get rid of freckels. You may be able to lighten them (as some tips above suggested), and you could probably cover them up with a good concealer/foundation combo....but why would you want to do that??? OWN your freckles!! Freckles are sexy, and they give their 'owner' a clean, natural-beauty type of look. My 14yr old niece has freckles and I think she looks SOOO beautiful. All the girls I see on makeup site FOTD's with freckles look gorgeous! IMO, they are a beauty asset, NOT something you should want to hide or be ashamed of!

Some of the nicest FOTD's I've seen on girls blessed w/ freckles are those where they give themselves a 'dewy' look...ie; minimal foundation (sometimes just some tinted moisturizer) some hilighter and a lil' bit of blush (cream blush looks really great)..and they let their natural skin show through...It looks model-esque!!! Not to tell you what to do, but I think it's such a shame when gals blessed with gorgeous freckels try to hide them....Oh...and the word is; guys love 'em
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I have freckles, but once I put on my m/u most of them disappear.

In the summer my freckles come out SO much & in the past I've been so terrible at putting on daily sunscreen - - the last 2 months I've been wearing sunscreen every day & usually by this time there will be a lot on my face, but there is hardly NONE.

If u want to prevent any future freckles I would suggest wearing sunscreen every single time u are out in the sun..
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If you have them I don't think you can actually get rid of them. You can do as has been suggested and wear a sunscreen. Then they won't get darker. Or try a whitening line.

 
I didn't think it was possible to remove freckles. maybe you could with surgey or something?

 
You can not absolutely get rid of freckles unless you underwent massive laser treatments and peels performed by a dermatologist or plastic surgeon, and then to keep your results, you could never have any sun exposure ever again. If you want to reduce them, make sure to wear a substantial SPF all day long, and look for brightening agents like Vitamin C, Licorice, or a melanin-inhibitor like Kojic acid in your skincare. If you use a bleaching program with something like hydroquinone make sure you keep up your SPF or you can make your freckles/sunspots darker.

 
Originally Posted by YvetteJeannine /img/forum/go_quote.gif I don't think there is any way to actually get rid of freckels. You may be able to lighten them (as some tips above suggested), and you could probably cover them up with a good concealer/foundation combo....but why would you want to do that??? OWN your freckles!! Freckles are sexy, and they give their 'owner' a clean, natural-beauty type of look. My 14yr old niece has freckles and I think she looks SOOO beautiful. All the girls I see on makeup site FOTD's with freckles look gorgeous! IMO, they are a beauty asset, NOT something you should want to hide or be ashamed of!
Some of the nicest FOTD's I've seen on girls blessed w/ freckles are those where they give themselves a 'dewy' look...ie; minimal foundation (sometimes just some tinted moisturizer) some hilighter and a lil' bit of blush (cream blush looks really great)..and they let their natural skin show through...It looks model-esque!!! Not to tell you what to do, but I think it's such a shame when gals blessed with gorgeous freckels try to hide them....Oh...and the word is; guys love 'em
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Beautifully put!!!
 
I guess the grass is always greener on the other side. I have like 2 little freckles on my face and I've always wished I had a bunch. I think they are beautiful and like Yvette said they always have the freshest most gorgeous complexions. But anyway to answer your actual questions, I have no idea what are safe ways to lighten freckles.

 
if you r asian, i totally understand why you wanna get rid of the freckles.

I am also asian what to have clear white(its not about the color people! its about how perfect your skin tone is) skin too.

I have tried so many remedis and facil products, no satisfing result.

there is no other way than having laser treatment to get rid of the freckles.

Putting and taking Vitamin C wont hurt. but if you want fast and perfect result, you have to get the laser treatment that's the only way

 
Not that this helps any, but after wearing makeup consistantly for long enough (not really that long, a couple months max) your freckles will fade some, and it can look really cute.

 
i had freckles from getting a bad sun burn when i was young ... i hated them and used tons of foundation and concealer my whole life to cover them.... however i found a way to get rid of them i went into sallys and bought claudia stevens facial fade cream .... it took a few months of using it every single night before bed and they eventually faded completely...

for the 1st time in a long time i feel comfortable with no makeup ...

i would reccomend it to anyone!

make sure u wear SPF while in the sun .... i actually cover my skin with a foundation powder before going in the sun so they dont come back.

by the way .....lemon juice does NOT work,. i tried it for a long time and all it did was make my face incredibly itchy when it was on

 
I too, have freckles and ever since I was little I've always wanted them gone. And they come out in the summer like crazy. But lately I've been getting so many compliments on them, its kind of creepy hahah!

so yay for freckles. :]

<3

 
The suggestions above can minimize them. Trying to hide a lot of them if they are dark can run into looking like you wear a mask because really they are not going away.Why not heed those who find them beautiful? Also for an appreciation of freckles read Freckle Juice by Beverly Cleary!

 
not when theyre in patches form
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after using lemon dont go out to the sun for hours or else it will be darkened so do that at night
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Sunscreen, sunscreen and more sunscreen -actually that goes for every one.

I have freckles, I like them mostly, but I don't want them to be to dark. I wear sunscreen everyday of the year, I'm a sunscreen zealot. It can be hard to remember to do at first but now I almost do it automatically as soon as I wake up.

Sunscreen will stop your freckles getting dark, among many other benefits.

Alpha hydroxy acids like lactic acid and glycolic acid are also recommended, they speed up the exfoliation process, so your freckles may fade.

 
Originally Posted by kaylin_marie /img/forum/go_quote.gif I guess the grass is always greener on the other side. I have like 2 little freckles on my face and I've always wished I had a bunch. I think they are beautiful and like Yvette said they always have the freshest most gorgeous complexions. But anyway to answer your actual questions, I have no idea what are safe ways to lighten freckles. lol. I agree with the grass is always greener. I have freckles and to me they are just a pain when it comes to MU and trying to find a foundation. But then everyone always says how they love my freckles and it makes me so mad.
 

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