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Tattoo Fading Creams: Do Wrecking Balm, Tat Be Gone, and Others Work?
Tattoo Fading Creams: Do Wrecking Balm, Tat B Gone and other Tattoo fading creams work?
There are lots of ads for Wrecking Balm, Tat B Gone and other tattoo removal creams. They usually promise to greatly fade your tattoo in a matter of weeks. What is their revolutionary system?
Basically, the main ingredient of most of these creams is 1% hydroquinone, a skin whitener. This is available at your local drug store. If not used carefully, it can irritate skin and in extreme cases lead to scarring. The other ingredient is an exfoliator spray, which is a mild dermabrasive also available in drugstores. The final ingredient is multi-vitamins like E and A, which as you might not be shocked to find out, tend to be available in drugstores.
So, a person can pay quite a bit more to get these things all together in one handy tattoo removable skin cream kit, or they can go to their local drugstore and get the same basic ingredients for about 1/10th the price.
The next question is though, are they worth getting? Do these tattoo fading cream systems work? On various forums and blogs, etc. there were a variety of comments. A majority reported little to no noticeable fading after several weeks. But several- maybe 30% or so (?) did say they had noticeable fading, and some of those said it faded enough to be less noticeable and to be easily covered over with makeup or in a few cases it was mentioned that they covered it with another tattoo.
There were also a couple of responses of how amazingly thrilled they were with this amazing product, but to me it smelled a bit like spam that has been sitting out all day, and I wasn’t convinced they were authentic comments…
The bottom line is that there’s no question that laser tattoo removal is the most effective and dependable, but also more expensive. Considering that most tattoo fading cream systems are between $125 and $225, and that’s for a few months supply, a very real question is would even one laser treatment possibly do more to help you fade your tattoo, for about the same price? Again, one session of laser tattoo removal isn’t going to do THAT much, but indications are, it still might do more than the fading creams.
Feel free to comment here on your own experience.
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Section: Tattoo Removal
May 28th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
I’ve been using tattoo off for 3 months now and have seen little results. It is fading though and my tattoo is not that old. It’s also green & black so the people of tattoo off said it’d take awhile.
July 12th, 2008 at 2:22 am
I have 5 tattoos that i would like removed and am looking for alternatives to the laser because i am in no rush to undergo all that pain, from what ive heard. Anyway, I saw an ad for a cream online called Nuviderm, I understand its a TCA cream and gradually will fade the tattoo by destroying the layers of skin and replacing it with new skin, having a similar effect as a chemical peel. What I am wondering is has anybody actually tested this? Does it work? What intrigues me is the company actually has an 8-month money back guarantee. Thats really good. In my opinion, to have a guarantee like that it must work right? I would love to hear the opinions from people who have tried this product. Thanks
July 16th, 2008 at 12:39 am
hi,
if somebody could give me some help on skin bleachers….could they help to fade a tattoo?? I only just had my tattoo done & my b/f hates it. I have managed to get some of the ink out by not covering it with cling film like I was told to do to seal it. Also the ingredients you menyioned above for creams, do you have to mix all those ingredients & at what ratio?
Thanx
Penny