• Question: why do we have freckles

    Asked by 239radg42 to Kate, Pip, Reka on 17 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Reka Nagy

      Reka Nagy answered on 17 Nov 2016:

      We have freckles because the pigment in our skin, called melanin, does not get distributed evenly throughout the skin. This mainly happens in paler people who produce less melanin to begin with, so the little that they produce stays near the area it was produced in and won’t cover all of their skin!

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