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Murad-focused skincare routine for skin with dark spots

A routine for skin with dark spots built around Murad products, complemented by other brands where they fit better, for complete care.

Cleansers, toners, serums, and moisturizers with niacinamide help reduce dark spots and even out skin tone. Exfoliating steps with glycolic, lactic, and salicylic acid help clear away dull cells to improve uneven skin tone.

The morning routine prepares the skin for the day: it cleans off the night, hydrates, and protects, with sunscreen as its last step. The evening routine removes sunscreen, makeup, and the day's oil, then treats the skin while it rests and is away from the sun. The weekly routine takes the place of the evening routine once a week and adds the deeper steps to help with hyperpigmentation, sun spots, and uneven skin tone.

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Products are rated for the concerns frequently associated with dark spots: hyperpigmentation, sun spots, and uneven skin tone. For a routine based on your full skin profile, including your 12D face scan results and any goals or preferences you have, please use the Lovi app.

Morning

Step 1Cleanser

Cleansers with niacinamide help improve overall skin tone and texture, while cleansers with willow bark extract gently exfoliate to improve clarity. These cleansers are used every morning and every evening, and once a week in place of the evening routine.

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Step 2Hydrating Toner

In the Lovi routine for this skin the hydrating toner step is used every morning. Hydrating toners with hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and centella asiatica extract help deeply hydrate skin and calm irritation, while formulas with niacinamide and licorice root extract may help fade dark spots and even out skin tone.

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Step 3Moisturizer

Moisturizers with niacinamide, green tea extract, and arbutin help hydrate skin and fade dark spots, while options with hyaluronic acid and glycerin support skin moisture barriers. These products are used every morning and every evening, and once a week in place of the evening routine.

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Evening

Step 1Pre-Cleanser

Makeup removers with caprylic capric triglyceride, apricot kernel oil, sunflower seed oil, and orange peel oil help clear away oil-based debris and makeup. These products are used every evening and once a week in place of the evening routine.

Step 2Cleanser

Cleansers with niacinamide help improve overall skin tone and texture, while cleansers with willow bark extract gently exfoliate to improve clarity. These cleansers are used every morning and every evening, and once a week in place of the evening routine.

Best cleansers for skin with dark spots

Step 3Cleansing Toner

Cleansing toners and exfoliating steps with lactic acid, glycolic acid, salicylic acid and niacinamide help clear out dark spots and even out skin tone. This cleansing toner step is used every evening.

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Step 4Serum or Treatment

Serums with niacinamide and tranexamic acid help fade dark spots and even out skin tone, while serums with vitamin C and glycolic acid brighten the skin and smooth its texture. These treatment steps are used every evening and once a week, in place of the evening routine.

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Step 5Moisturizer

Moisturizers with niacinamide, green tea extract, and arbutin help hydrate skin and fade dark spots, while options with hyaluronic acid and glycerin support skin moisture barriers. These products are used every morning and every evening, and once a week in place of the evening routine.

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Once a week

Step 1Pre-Cleanser

Makeup removers with caprylic capric triglyceride, apricot kernel oil, sunflower seed oil, and orange peel oil help clear away oil-based debris and makeup. These products are used every evening and once a week in place of the evening routine.

Step 2Cleanser

Cleansers with niacinamide help improve overall skin tone and texture, while cleansers with willow bark extract gently exfoliate to improve clarity. These cleansers are used every morning and every evening, and once a week in place of the evening routine.

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Step 3Enzyme Powder

Exfoliating steps with papain, pineapple enzymes and bromelain help digest dull surface cells to reveal brighter skin for skin with dark spots. This enzyme powder step is used once a week, in place of the evening routine.

Step 4Nourishing Mask

Nourishing masks with hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, and licorice root extract help deeply hydrate skin and fade dark spots. This step is used once a week in place of the evening routine.

Step 5Serum or Treatment

Serums with niacinamide and tranexamic acid help fade dark spots and even out skin tone, while serums with vitamin C and glycolic acid brighten the skin and smooth its texture. These treatment steps are used every evening and once a week, in place of the evening routine.

Best serums and treatments for skin with dark spots

Step 6Moisturizer

Moisturizers with niacinamide, green tea extract, and arbutin help hydrate skin and fade dark spots, while options with hyaluronic acid and glycerin support skin moisture barriers. These products are used every morning and every evening, and once a week in place of the evening routine.

Best moisturizers and moisturizing serums for skin with dark spots

Research behind this routine

Behind this routine

Lovi builds every routine from each product's full ingredient list with brand-independent rules our dermatologists and cosmetic chemists build and review, and personalizes every pick with AI trained on the real results of millions of users. Lovi trains its fit score models on a proprietary dataset built from more than 10,000 expert-labeled products and more than 100,000 simulated examples, following an internally consistent methodology presented at Cosmoprof, AMWC, and Skin of Color Update.

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