You how when something seems too good to be true it usually is? Well, tattoo fading cream for tattoo removal would have to fall into that category. There are, of course, strong acids that can be used to burn your skin off and can take the tattoo with them as well. The skin is made of up 2 layers - the dermis and the epidermis. The dermis is the deeper layer and the layer where tattoo pigments are deposited. So if a cream is going to get at a tattoo, it has to burn its way through the epidermis and go a substantial way into the dermis. Whenever you have an acid penetrate the dermis, it causes a burn and a blister. As long as there is damage to the dermis, there is going to be some scarring. How much scarring depends on the depth of the burn and on the individual’s tendency to make scars. So what you have is not any different from older methods of dermabrasion, salabrasion, and surgical excision, all of which leave significant scarring.
The idea that you can even partially remove a tattoo with minimal skin irritation is a marketing scam. Not only is it illogical, but if it were true, it would have revolutionized the tattoo removal industry by now and driven laser tattoo removal clinics out of business. But that hasn’t happened. The claims made on various websites look like the before and after pictures have been doctored with photoshop. An excellent example of how this could be done is available at the following link.

The way that laser tattoo removal works is that the laser light physically penetrates the skin without causing a reaction until it reaches and is absorbed by the tattoo ink. It then causes the tattoo ink to heat up faster than it can thermally expand, causing it to fracture, also known as a “photoacoustic effect.” There is no chemical or cream that works by a similar mechanism in the world of tattoo removal at this time. It is possible that transdermal delivery systems will be developed for chemical tattoo removal, such as multi-needle systems, but that day is not here yet. Until then, the only non-scarring tattoo removal method that has been proven is q-switched laser tattoo removal.