What is melanin?

Melanin in our skin......

Have you ever wondered what’s giving your skin its color or causing discoloration on some parts of your body? The root cause of it all is melanin.

Melanin is a complex polymer derived from the amino acid tyrosine. Melanin is responsible for determining skin and hair colour and is present in the skin to varying degrees, depending on how much a population has been exposed to the sun historically. Layers of epidermis

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