Melanin: origin, benefits, dosage and deficiencies
Publié le 16-11-2020 et mis à jour le 12-02-2025
It is known that white hair and pigmented and brown spots are the result of a lack of melanin.
Help your hair regain color, prevent the appearance of new white hairs, and achieve beautiful skin with a healthy glow thanks to melanin supplementation!
In this article, we reveal the origins of melanin as well as our valuable expert advice on micronutrition.
The origin of melanin
Melanin is produced by melanocytes, cells located in the hair follicles of the epidermis.
Its synthesis is controlled by tyrosine: an amino acid. This amino acid is part of the pigments naturally responsible for the coloration of hair, skin color, and eyes, and the type of melanin varies according to our origin and genes (Europeans, Asians...).
A melanin deficiency can cause various pigment disorders such as vitiligo, a disease promoting the appearance of white spots, this is called depigmentation of the skin, but also albinism since being albinos is due to the absence of melanin on the surface of the skin.
Melanin plays a protective role against skin damage like UV rays during sun exposure, it protects against ultraviolet rays.
There are two types of sun rays: UVB and UVA. The latter promote the appearance of pigment spots on skin cells and can even cause serious dermatological problems such as skin cancer, which will definitely require the intervention of a dermatologist.
It is therefore essential to protect oneself to prevent visible signs of skin aging such as wrinkles or age spots.
Skin pigmentation can be influenced by genetic factors such as age, hormones, climate, season, or excessive sun exposure. However, melanin levels tend to deplete over time and due to environmental stressors.
When an absence of melanin is observed, graying and then whitening of the hair and fur usually occur. This is called canities, a process of hair depigmentation. The hair then becomes dull, lackluster, gray or white. It then becomes necessary to provide melanin in high doses to darken the hair and promote the repigmentation of white and gray hair.
This melanin synthesis can be increased topically through appropriate treatments, but for a less superficial effect, it can be provided internally using melanin-based supplements.
Our Melanin Absolute is enriched with keratin hydrolysate naturally pigmented by melanin, the pigment responsible for the color of the skin and hair, and used to slow down and conceal the appearance of gray hair on your scalp and to color the skin.
This formula is suitable for all ages. 87% of subjects are satisfied after 4 months of treatment.
The benefits of melanin
It is important to provide melanin supplements for improve the skin appearance, fight against premature aging of melanocytes and delay the appearance of white hair. Indeed, melanin is responsible for the skin pigment, hair, fur, and tanning. These are the reasons why you need to supplement with natural and quality supplements to achieve a easily synthesized melanin by the organization.
Melanin is essential to the body as it protects against the harmful effects of the sun, which itself is responsible for various disorders, and it is also responsible for tanning. Unfortunately, we are not all equal when it comes to the sun and depending on the skin type, it is more difficult to optimize tanning. A fair skin or white skin or even very fair skin for example has more difficulty tanning than dark skin or black skin. This is normal, the composition of melanin is different, and the sun's rays are less absorbed. People with black skin will have fewer sunburns than a person with white skin.
By supplementing yourself, you will thus allow your synthesis to be enhanced but above all to make it stronger and enable to assimilate the energy of UV rays to transform it into tanning and to intensify progressively with sun exposures.
You can consume beta-carotenes like carrot, which belongs to the carotenoid family and is ideal for boosting your tan. However, supplementing does not mean you should not protect yourself from ultraviolet radiation, sunburns and sunspots with topical cosmetics.
To avoid sunburn in the summer, always prioritize sun protection such as a SPF50 sunscreen to prevent skin burns from sunlight and long-term damage to your skin cells.
Attention: the use of self-tanner does not protect the skin and does not act like melanin! It colors the skin superficially and, if used excessively, can cause a complexion speckled with spots.
Dosage, deficiencies
Clean, cruelty free, gluten-free and made in France, all of our formulas are composed of natural active ingredients extracted without chemical processes.
In order to combat deficiencies that cause white hair, we recommend consuming foods rich in vitamins B12, B6, and B8 as well as supplementing with a product based on melanin.
Nowadays, foods are no longer as rich and the nutrients we need daily are no longer provided in sufficient quantities.
Our Melanin Absolute is rich in vitamin B8, better known as biotin, to strengthen the hair fiber, reduce hair loss, and protect against free radicals and stress-related oxidation.
Our laboratory has developed an innovative complex enriched with keratin hydrolysate (a constituent molecule of the hair fiber) naturally pigmented by melanin. A formula that significantly darkens hair color and which has been the subject of a clinical study on its effectiveness. It is therefore advisable to take our Melanin Absolute for 4 to 6 months to activate cellular memory and provide the necessary nutrients to the hair bulb.
To prevent the appearance of the first white hairs and reduce pigmentation disorders (pigmented skin, speckled with dark spots or brown spots), and thus regain beautiful hair and a healthy complexion, it is important to limit nicotine consumption, provide the necessary nutrients to the body, and avoid external aggressions (highlights, repeated coloring, bleaching). Prefer plant-based dyes and protect your hair during exposure and radiation.
To remove pigmentation spots in winter, we recommend applying moisturizing creams but also deeply nourishing your skin with collagen. Treating spots is possible and recommended in winter since sun exposure is less intense than in summer. In summer, protecting the skin is essential. Use sunscreen with SPF 50 protection factor, a powerful total screen is truly the ideal ally to protect the dermis.
Also remember to hydrate and nourish your skin with a suitable cosmetic. You need to use creams and cosmetics adapted to your skin type: combination, oily, sensitive, reactive, dark skin, black skin, white skin, and according to the types of spots on the skin: small spots, freckles, brown spots, tan spots, light spots, moles…
And above all, don't forget to stock up on vitamins C and D for a truly healthy glow every day!
