Your Vitamin C serum. Twenty-five to eighty dollars a bottle. Does one thing.
Your kojic acid cream. Thirty to sixty dollars. Does one thing.
Your niacinamide. Twenty to forty dollars. Does one thing.
Your prescription treatment. Fifty to three hundred dollars plus a consultation fee. Does one thing.
And after all of it, your dark spots are still there.
One bar of African Black Soap. Thirty-five dollars. Seven ingredients addressing melanin overproduction, existing pigmentation breakdown, skin barrier protection, and inflammation control simultaneously.
The industry doesn't want you to do this math.