How does wound care ointment fade?

It needs to be dealt with in two scenarios. If you want to clean up the residual color of the ointment stained on the surface of clothes and skin, just choose a cleansing product that corresponds to the base. If you want to rely on the ointment to dilute the pigmentation after wound healing, you have to choose a medical-grade ointment with corresponding effects. It is effective. Applying it randomly may leave color.

My family member broke his knee while riding an electric bike a while ago. The oil-based care ointment containing comfrey that I applied on my off-white sweatpants left a purple mark on it. My mother had to use hot water and soap to rub it. The hot water can soak away any stains. As a result, the mark was so faint that half of the trouser legs turned gray. Later, it was still there I asked a familiar dermatology nurse and she said that for oil-based ointments, you need to dissolve the oil in oil first. Pour cleansing oil or cooking vegetable oil on the dry marks and rub it for 30 seconds. After the ointment is dissolved, squeeze some dish soap and rub it. Finally, it will be clean after normal machine washing. I tried it and it didn't leave any marks after washing. If it's a water-based gel care ointment, you don't have to worry so much. Just rinse it with warm water and soap and it will come off without leaving any traces.

Of course, some people think that there is no need to go to all this trouble. If the ointment is stained on the skin, even if you don't wash it specifically, the cuticles will fall off due to metabolism in two or three days. This is true. As long as it is not stained on light-colored clothes close to the body, it will be completely fine if it fades by itself. Just don't do it for Quickly remove the ointment mark around the wound with alcohol and disinfectant. I read a netizen who found the yellow ointment mark around the wound unsightly. He rubbed it repeatedly with 75% alcohol, which made the thin and tender skin that had just grown red and painful. Instead, it left a red mark for more than two months. It was not worth the gain.

After talking about how to remove the residue of the ointment itself, there must be many people who come here to "use the ointment to remove the pigment from wounds." Now the opinions on this matter on the Internet are completely divided. Some people say that any care ointment can fade when applied, and some people say that it is completely IQ tax. In fact, you have to look at the ingredients to judge. My best friend had a mole removed last year, and after the scab fell off, she insisted on applying a mechanical wound care ointment containing silicone + nicotinamide every day. She also strictly carried an umbrella and wore a mask to protect herself from the sun when going out. For about two months, the reddish-brown mark on her face was basically invisible, and even if you get close, you can't find any trace. ； But my brother cut his hand while chopping vegetables last year, so he applied ordinary antibacterial care ointment. The wound healed very quickly, but the brown mark left behind took more than half a year to completely disappear, and the effect of the light color was not noticeable at all. To put it bluntly, ordinary antibacterial and basic moisturizing wound care ointments have no ingredients that inhibit tyrosinase activity, reduce melanin production, or accelerate pigment metabolism. The fading effect is basically a marketing gimmick of the merchants. If you really want to rely on ointment to fade the color of the wound, you have to look for the brand name of the ointment and contain recognized active ingredients such as silicone, nicotinamide, and L-vitamin C. It will take two to three months to be effective. It is impossible to expect results after three to five days of application. After all, the cycle of skin metabolism is there.