Name: Agency Custom Dark Spot Formula
Brand: Agency

What the gurus are saying.

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The Style and Beauty Doctor

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"Agency also offers a customized dark spot formula. Remember we talked about level one, well what I call level one and level two dark spots. Level one is the dark spots that are fresh, like you've had them less than four months, those are easier to treat with things that you can buy at the drugstore, department store, specialty stores. Older dark spots however, those need a little bit of extra care. That's what I call level two."

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"When you put the Future Formula with the Dark Spot Formula, you're getting eight ingredients that are hand-picked by your provider just for your skin to tackle all your skin care concerns so they can help with your dark spots, with your wrinkles, with your brightness, with your firmness. It really is like a turnkey one-stop shopping for all your anti-aging skin care needs."

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"There's no reason to be afraid of using hydroquinone when you're using a service like Agency because they have taken all the guesswork out of it. The dark spot formula is used twice a day, once in the morning and once at night, and the combination of hydroquinone and tretinoin really is like the double whammy that can really take care of your dark spots and really can improve your skin."

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"Something new that I added this year in the morning is the agency dark spot formula [...] this is their dark spot formula which contains hydroquinone and I was getting like some dark spots up here on my forehead and so I wanted to try to use hydroquinone to fade them I like this it has faded my dark spot a bit."

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"I have been using it like a month, a month and a half and I am already seeing a difference in this age spot on my head and now I feel like it's fading already. This actually contains four active ingredients that tackle dark spots. I only use this as a spot treatment. I pretty much put it up here on my forehead and on my cheeks and down my nose and a little bit on my chest and then some on the backs of my hands."

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"The dark spot formula would contain hydroquinone plus three other active ingredients in a nice moisturizing base. [...] I've been noticing I've been getting some dark spots coming out on my forehead. I [...] wanted to try the combination of hydroquinone and tretinoin to see if it would fade them quickly. I'm about three weeks in on it so too early to tell. I will do a video on it later on and let you know how it's going."

Cassandra Bankson

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"One of the best things that I've ever used for pigmentation is a blended serum that has basically all of the actives that help with hyperpigmentation in one and this one specifically doesn't have a lot of major exfoliants and this is perfect for any hormonal pigmentation that my skin personally has. This is from Agency, it's the Agency Custom Dark Spot Formula and this is custom blended to my skin so what's in mine might not be the same as someone else's but I love this."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Vitamin C

Topical vitamin C is an antioxidant with reasonable evidence for dullness and uneven tone. It breaks down in light and air, so how a product is formulated and packaged matters as much as the percentage on the front.

Source: DermNet

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine