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Skin Pigmentation Types, Causes and Treatment-A Review

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By Amin Mahmood Thawabteh, Alaa Jibreen, Donia Karaman, Alà Thawabteh
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1. Introduction Skin pigmentation, which refers to how much melanin the body generates, determines the color of the skin. The two main types of melanin, eumelanin, and pheomelanin, are produced by melanocytes in the epidermal layer of the skin. Pheomelanin causes lighter skin tones, while eumelanin is responsible for darker skin tones [1,2]. The skin is protected from sunburn by the dark brown pigment eumelanin (compound 1 in Figure 1), which absorbs UV rays from the sun.
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