The Ill Effects Of Skin Lightening or Fairness Creams

Posted on February 24, 2009 in Latest News

There are quite a number of people around the world who have a fixation with the fair skin. In Indian matrimonial ads we will find people asking for a fair skinned wife for their able son. Yhe situation is also the same for countries like Indonesia, Sri lanka, Malaysia, Korea, middle eastern countries and other south Asian countries.

The Ill Effects Of Skin Lightening or Fairness Creams

According to researchs done on these skin lightening products shocking revelations have come to light. Read on to find them out:

These beauty products aim to change melanin, a pigmenting agent that is determined from the time of our birth. No unnatural material can change melanin levels or whatever. At the most these creams contain sunscreens that help them from further darkening of the skin.
Hydroquinone, a chemical used in the fairness creams is actually a bleaching element which badly harms the skin. The high mercury levels are much more than the levels prescribed by the US FDA.
Ingredients like koiic acid and retinoic acid make the skin more intolerant towards the sun’s harmful effects. Koiic acid is a derivative of Vitamin C and retinoic that of Vitamin A. Users can also have severe skin rashes if they keep on using it.

In case, people still want to buy themselves a fairness cream it is advised to go for one which contains natuarl elemnts like saffron, sandalwood, mulberry, blackberry and the like. It is still better to know about the FDA standards of the product that you wish to buy. Best thing is do a patch test in you arm so that you know whether the product suits you or not.

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April 15th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Not that I’m totally impressed, but this is more than I expected when I stumpled upon a link on Digg telling that the info is quite decent. Thanks.

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