Melanin is a natural pigment that gives color to skin. Exposure to sunlight, hormonal influences and ageing can cause an increase in melanin production and trigger hyperpigmentation. Hyperpigmentation appears as dark patches and age spots (also known as sunspots) that make skin look uneven.  Eucerin Anti-Pigment Daily Body Lotion combines powerful active ingredients that work in different ways to promote your skin’s radiance and reduce hyperpigmentation at the source by effectively reducing the appearance of dark spots large areas of pigmentation and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation: Thiamidol is an effective and patented ingredient that acts at the root hyperpigmentation" target="">cause of hyperpigmentation is clinically proven to reduce hyperpigmentation, preventing its reappearance with regular usage. Patented by Eucerin.