In brief
Key points
- ✓Specialist assessment
- ✓Usually extensive involvement
- ✓Potentially permanent
- ✓Strict UV protection afterwards
- ✓Cosmetic care is different
When can it be considered?
It may be discussed when a very large proportion of visible skin is depigmented and repigmentation is not a realistic or desired goal. Personal priorities and psychosocial impact are central.
Not an ordinary cosmetic procedure
Medical depigmentation requires careful counselling about permanence, incomplete results, irritation, recurrence and lifelong sun sensitivity.
Cosmetic brightening products
IDEALDERM presents cosmetic products containing concentrated brightening ingredient complexes. They are not described here as medicines or as treatments for vitiligo.
View the 35% glycolic acid peel at IDEALDERMEditorial basis: AWMF S2k guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of vitiligo, register 013-093, version 2.0 dated 27 July 2026, valid until June 2031. Sources reviewed on 2 September 2026.
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The binding category, directions and precautions are provided on the current label and IDEALDERM product page.