What causes some people to get freckles and why do redheads get them more than other people?
Welll Im sure Doogle had freckles didn’t he? So long ago now hmmm or was it Zebbedy, anyway unevenly deposited melanin. Melanin is chemical in your skin that makes you tan. So if it is deposited in uneaven amounts you go darker in these spots than where it is less deposited. hence the birth of the freckle. Why do red heads get them more only if the red head has the type of skin that does freckle and genetically the two seem to go together The origin of red hair in the UK can be traced back to those of Celtic descent. The variation in one’s hair and skin pigmentation can be traced to the amounts of the chemicals eumelanin (brown and black melanins) and phaeomelanin (red and yellow melanins) produced by melanocytes (or ‘color cells’).Skin and hair pigment is made up of different types of melanin. There are two broad groups of melanin, eumelanin, which is brown, and phaeomelanin, which is red. Somebody with dark hair will have predominantly eumelanin. Somebody with very bright red hair wi