Nature's Answer Age-Defying Tone Perfecting Licorice Root Cream For Skin Brightening is designed to be effective on various skin tones, for a brightened, even toned skin. This cream is formulated with 7% Licorice extract, helping to brighten the skin already affected by sun damage. Licorice contains Glabridin, which is known to help stop discoloration in its tracks during and immediately after sun exposure. It has skin lightening properties and prevents the production of the enzyme tyrosinase, which makes the skin go dark after exposure to the sun. Founded in 1972, and to this day, Nature's Answer remains a family-owned-and-operated business with the highest standards for its natural products and liquid herbal extracts. This long-term stewardship and personal attention is exceedingly rare in today's natural products marketplace. As one of America's largest and oldest manufacturers of nutritional supplements, Nature's Answer is an FDA registered, pharmaceutically licensed herbal manufacturing and quality control facilities, and has one of the most impressive herbariums in the U.S.