How effective are tattoo removal creams?

Having tattoo regret? Pondering over the effectiveness of tattoo removal creams? The manner in which tattoos are inscribed, they are meant to be permanent. The tattoo machine has a needle with which the ink is put under the epidermis so that the tattoo doesn’t fade with time as the skin gets naturally sloughed off. Now do you feel it’s possible for a cream to remove the ink which is so deeply seated into the skin? There are some questions provided below which you need to consider before you spend money buying these tattoo removal creams.

What do the experts have to say?

Medical practitioners who specialize in the study of skin conditions, care and problems are known as dermatologists. If tattoo removal creams work and are safe to use, then the company must be able to garner support from these experts or make them endorse their products. But the fact is, none of the tattoo removal cream websites have any form of credible support from the medical board certified dermatologists. In a particular report, Lawrence Gibson (MD), a Mayo Clinic dermatologist have been found stating that there is very little evidence of these creams being effective. At the max, it can help to fade or lighten the tattoo. The tattoo will remain to be visible and there are also risks of irritation and other forms of skin reaction.

Are the customer’s testimonials about effectiveness believable?

You would often find that the tattoo removal cream websites are backed with testimonials from customers in support of the effectivity of their product. Are these views really true? The testimonials do not have an email, telephone number or postal address. Neither do they have adequate details to verify and evaluate whether the customer’s word is worth considering and that it isn’t fake. Also, negative views about a particular product can be found on other websites. This is not something uncommon. It has often been found that some of these websites are owned by the very people who manufacture the tattoo removal creams. Logically speaking, it’s also difficult to assess the credibility of such negative comments which are posted on the sites. In cases they have been found to be posted by rival companies with the sole motive of discrediting their competitors.

Is Photo Evidence Showing Tattoo Fading Believable?

One of the most prevalent methods which these companies adopt is to post photographs on their websites which show tattoos fading over time. There are a series of photographic recordings that spread over a considerable period of time. One before the application of cream picture, one after three months of application one after six months and so it continues. This is a very fascinating technique because a single picture is edited with the help of photo-editing software to fade the tattoo. The rather poor fakes show all the pictures to have been taken from the same distance and angle. Is it ever possible that the photographer could shoot three pictures from the same angle and distance at different points of time? But some sites do have better fakes; though not better enough to consider the documentation as something credible.

What's the Quality of Scientific Evidence that the Cream Works?

You might get confused by false claims by the sites of having scientific support for the efficacy of their product. But you can rest assured that these claims are dubious. In reality, an actual study has to be carried out by a disinterested medical researcher. Another necessary and commonplace protocol is to use a placebo control group that received an ordinary cream. It would also involve a double blind study of carefully screened participants with tattoos. This means that neither the participant nor the person applying would know whether it is a tattoo removal cream or a placebo. The effectiveness would then be measured by quantifiable measurements of fading subjected to statistical analysis.

You can also come to the inference whether the tattoo removal cream’s claim of scientific support is true. For that you need to ask certain basic questions. By whom the study was carried out? In which medical journal was the report published? Which university do they work at? Was it a double blind study with a proper control group?