Hydroquinone topical (for the skin) is used to lighten areas of darkened skin such as freckles, age spots, melasma (sun damage), or chloasma (darkened skin caused by hormonal changes).

Cosmelite Cream is a medicine used in the treatment of melasma. It helps in quick skin renewal. It provides relief from redness, swelling, and itching. Cosmelite Cream helps to lighten dark patches of the skin usually caused by pregnancy, birth control pills, hormone medicine, or injury to the skin.

Melafine® Cream is a combination cream used in the treatment and prevention of moderate melasma (dark and discolored patches on the skin) to lighten the skin tone or appearance and senile lentigines (dark spots or age spots in older people due to exposure to the sun). It contains mometasone, tretinoin and hydroquinone.