We Discontinued Our Best-Selling Dark-Spot Mask on Purpose. Here's Why. It was never that your spots won't fade. It was that nothing reached deep enough.

Six months in the lab. A stronger formula, built to reach the stubborn melasma the original was too slow on. Here's the straight story, from the dermatologist who made it.

By Dr. Hana Lee, Dermatologist & Co-Founder, Quia

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Updated June 2026

Quia Kojic & Tumeric Mask

Kojic Acid + Turmeric Overnight Mask

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I'm Dr. Hana Lee. Along with our team, I created the Quia mask, and I'm about to tell you something that'll disappoint some of you.

We're retiring our original kojic-acid and turmeric mask, the one a lot of you loved.

Here's why: too many of you with stubborn melasma kept telling us the same thing. It works, but it works too slowly.

So we pulled it, shut production for six months, and rebuilt it from the ground up.

If my name is on it, it has to be the better one.

What We Rebuilt, and Why It Reaches Deeper

The original had the right idea: kojic acid and turmeric, sealed on overnight so they stay in contact with the pigment for hours instead of rinsing off in minutes.

But on the most stubborn melasma, it worked slowly. So we changed three things.

We concentrated more kojic acid, the tone-evening active that does the fading.

We added a gentle, time-release retinol that works overnight without the usual sting.

And we rebuilt the wrapping film so the actives reach deeper than the original, instead of sitting near the surface.

Not a tweak. A six-month, ground-up rebuild, for the spots the original was too slow on.

This is the new Quia Turmeric & Kojic Acid Overnight Mask. You peel off the mask in the morning, not your spots; those fade underneath, over the weeks.

What You'll Actually See, Week by Week

I'll set the timeline straight, because most ads won't.

In our own testing, the new formula faded dark spots faster than the original.

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It Was Never That Your Spots Won't Fade. It Was That Nothing Reached Deep Enough.

TFor 15 years I watched good ingredients do nothing for dark spots, and the problem was never the ingredients. They rinsed or wore off before they ever reached the pigment.

Your stubborn spots were never hopeless. Nothing had stayed on long enough, or reached deep enough, to move them.

That's the whole reason for the overnight seal: it keeps the actives working against your skin for 8 full hours instead of 2, and the rebuilt film helps them reach deeper. Give proven actives that much time and depth, and even stubborn melasma starts to even out.

— Dr. Hana Lee, MD, dermatologist and founder of Quia

What's In the New Formula

It's gentle enough to use nightly, and it evens your tone toward your own color, never a lighter or stripped look. Here's what's sealed in:

It contains a time-release retinol, so patch-test first, ease in if your skin is sensitive, and skip it if you're pregnant or nursing. Wear SPF daily.

A Note for Anyone Stubborn Melasma, Dark Spots, Sun Spots or Hyperpigmentation Has Let Down Before

IIf you've tried the prescription creams, the serums, the laser consults, and your spots still haven't moved, I understand the skepticism. I rebuilt this for exactly that, the spots the old formula, and most products, were too slow on.

It still won't happen in a week. The glow comes first, and the deeper fade builds over the weeks. That's how you know it's real.

It evens your tone toward your own color, never lighter.

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