WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER BLEACH

- By Favourite Nurse Favour

I'm super excited that we are having our EXCLUSIVE HEALTH SERIES and this blog post is focused on both genders of all ages.

There is an agent that allows people to exchange their health and it's well-being for a whiter skin color, and this agent is called SKIN BLEACHING. 


Come to think deeply about this dear Queens and kings, is your skin worth bleaching only to end up compromising your health and your physical appearance – the very thing you had in mind that you're trying to improve? Ironically, even children and unborn babies have been placed on the wait list for skin bleaching product by their mother exposing these souls to chemicals that are used to whiten the toilet seater and floor, therefore, exposing them to damage at their early age. Isn't this a form of Child Abuse?

 

On a daily basis people go to the market, stores, pharmacist and clinics in search of any available agent that will help tone their skin to a more lighter and whiter colour. 

 

THE RISK ASSOCIATED WITH SKIN WHITENING IS SELF DESTRUCTIVE!

INFACT THERE ARE IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE THAT ARE RESULTED FROM SKIN BLEACHING AND THIS IS ONE REASON YOU SHOULD NEVER BE BLEACH. This is why every individual needs to be educated on the harmful effect from it.


However before I go on to informing you about the harms that skin bleaching causes you, let me briefly emphasis on what gives your skin it's natural pigment and how a skin becomes white. 


HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHAT GIVES YOUR SKIN ITS NATURAL COLOUR?

   The Skin natural color is mainly determined by a pigment called melanin, and melanin is a naturally occurring dark pigments responsible for the color of skin in the body. Melanin is produced by melanocytes through a process called melanogenesis.

Note: the difference in skin color between lightly and darkly pigmented individuals is due to their level of melanocyte activity; it is not due to the number of melanocytes (melanin) in their skin. 


HOW DOES SKIN BLEACHING WORK?

     People with dark skin have more melanin.

Therefore, skin bleaching reduces the concentration or production of melanin in the skin.

Ideally, skin bleaching is the use of cosmetics product and service to reduce the amount of melanin in the body to make the skin whiter and lighter.

Skin bleaching is very common all over the world. Lots of women use it to remove skin patches, age spots, acne scars, or discoloration related to hormones. It is also a technique used to lighten naturally dark skin. Many including men too also use this skin bleaching products to lighten their overall body complexion.


Note: "BLEACHING RIDS THE SKIN OF MELANIN AND THIS MAKES THE SKIN MORE SENSITIVE TO SUN!" 

Every skin lightening products do come with some risks due to the chemical content in it.



SKIN BLEACHING is known with other names such as:

- SKIN WHITENING

- SKIN LIGHTENING

- SKIN TONING

MOST SKINCARE PRODUCTS; hide under the name of organic skin product, but it also contain the chemicals for skin bleaching.



CHEMICALS FOUND IN BLEACHING AGENT'S:

- Hydroquinone

- Mercury

- Cysteamine

- Topical retinoids

- Botanicals

- Topical corticosteroids

In addition to this, lot's of skincare/homes in the name of natural organic compounds, there add high concentration of kojic acid, glutathione and some give high dose of Vitamin C to their clients intravenously

Some of these bleaching product are in forms of:

1) Soaps

2) Creams

3) Salts

4) Injectables

5) Pills. A report showed that certain pregnant women who just have a desire for light skinned children, take certain pills that will lighten the unborn foetus when she finally gives birth and this ladies end up destroying herself and her child, some babies may end up being abnormal.


A wise men said that "A ounce of prevention is worth than a pounds of cure!"



WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER BLEACH:

The effects of skin lightening products are so numerous and it ranges from local effects which are visible on the skin, to serious systemic effects inside the body which cannot be seen and also there it has economical effect too: here large amount of money is used for the deep kind of bleaching.”

THERE ARE MORE DANGEROUS AND IRREVERSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS BECAUSE THESE PRODUCTS CONTAIN CHEMICALS LIKE MERCURY, CORTICOSTEROIDS AND HYDROQUINONE WHICH ARE DANGEROUS TO THE BODY EVEN IN SMALL QUANTITIES.


Skin whitening or lightening as some prefer to call it, will result to some mild effect such as;

- Poor wound healing: this is because the skin gets thinner over time, making it easy to be bruised, have poor wound healing, and prominent dilated veins on the body.

- Wound breakdown

- Scarring

- Blistering of the skin

- Burns as a result from exposure to sun.

-Black spots all around the face, chest or other parts of the body. 

-Discoloration; here babies, ladies or men begin to have blue black color. Some have black colour around their eyes making them look so unkempt to some.

- Wrinkling of the skin

- Eczema

- Body odour


SEVERE EFFECT OF SKIN BLEACHING:

- Mercury poisoning which  results to mental disorder.

- Kidney damage

- Skin cancer: Skin cancer occurs as there is unprotected access to ultraviolet rays into the skin with subsequent burns, sun damage and sun-induced change of the skin cells to cancerous types. 

- Damage to the nervous system

- Fungal and bacterial infections of the skin and thus is because the bleaching chemicals wipe off the organisms that serve as soldiers to the skin, leaving it naked and unprotected from many skin infections among which we are scabies, fungal infections of the skin and viral infections (warts in the skin), among others.

- Hypertension

- Diabetes

- Depression

- Blindness

- Addiction: Lots of people particularly ladies are so addicted to bleaching their skin, that they can't do without bleaching their skin and to some it place a great toll in their finances.

I can go on listing out all the medically reviewed effect of skin bleaching.

Honestly, the processes of skin-lightening have a lot of health risks attached to them, almost all bleaching products are composed of either three active ingredients that include Mercury, Hydroquinone or various corticosteroids. However, we draw the curtains on this one here.

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