Posts Tagged ‘skin bleaching cream’

Skin Bleaching Cream – Why the “Magic Pill” is not Replacing a Good Bleaching Cream.

December 17th, 2009

A search for a good skin bleaching cream will turn up ads for a so-called ‘magic pill’. Glutathione. Unproven claims zip around the internet. It is supposed to whiten your skin ‘from the inside’.

Glutathione is a man-made drug. It treats nerve diseases such as Parkinson’s. Many patients regain movement and the ability to speak.  –Source: Medi Pharm Distributor

Still Waiting To Learn How it Whitens Skin? You’re not Alone.

On the website medhelp, a prestigious dermatologist was asked for medical evidence glutathione works as a skin whitner.  He said, “I’m afraid I haven’t got any. I am not aware of the use of this product for skin whitening. In fact, I’m not aware of any internal skin whiteners. There are creams for this purpose.” –Dr. Allen Rockoff, Rockoff Dermatology Center, MA
Creams work on melanin.

Melanin– closest to the surface– gives skin color.  No one can explain how attempting to impact melanin from the inside is superior, since the melanin is near the surface.

  • The FDA classified glutathione as GRAS: Generally Regarded As Safe. (But not specifically for skin whitening).
  • Glutathione is already in your cells. Putting more in your body gets risky. Why? Because they’ve never studied how much is safe and how much causes harm.
You could use glutathione in skin bleaching creams, if you’re willing to be a lab rat.
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Alpha Arbutin – The Science Behind Arbutin in Skin Bleaching Creams

December 17th, 2009

There is some impressive science to back up claims that alpha arbutin is a good skin lightener that you can use without risk.

We ran across the results of a medical study that put it very plainly: “Alpha arbutin is an effective and safe ingredient for skin lightening.” We dug up the study, to make certain it was not based on fly-by-night science.

Alpha Arbutin is an old homeopathic remedy that used to be put on wounds. People discovered it lightened the skin around the wound.

Alpha arbutin was put to a scientific test. A study, in Japan, was titled “Inhibitory Effects of Alpha-Arbutin on Melanin…”. Doctor K. Sugimoto and his colleagues at the Biochemical Research Lab in Osaka, Japan wanted to know if alpha arbutin inhibits melanin from growing in human cells.

  • Why melanin? It gives skin dark color. To fade skin color you have to inhibit the body’s production of melanin. Then your skin lightens, moles tone down, and dark circles under the eyes fade.
  • Why? Because your body constantly makes new skin, and throws out the old. The new skin has less melanin. Old dark skin is shed naturally.
  • Why Japan? Asians have been lightening skin for centuries. It’s cultural. The doctors wanted to be sure the alpha arbutin so commonly used in their country was safe in products sold throughout Asia.

The Japanese medical investigators put human skin cells to the test. Their big concern was that if you interrupt melanin, the whole cell becomes abnormal.

They were able to report that alpha arbutin cut melanin production by more than half but had no other effect on cells developing normally.

Clich here to find a skin bleaching cream with alpha arbutin

An easy-to-follow guide to skin bleaching is here.

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Moles – How to Get Rid of Skin Moles Using a Skin Bleaching Cream

December 10th, 2009

Skin moles baffle scientists. A skin bleaching cream will fade a mole.

Why moles develop is a medical mystery. How skin moles develop is not mysterious.

  • Melanin rises to the surface skin to form a mole.
  • Melanin is a natural skin pigment which gives color to skin.
  • Normally melanin distributes evenly, producing the common sun tan.
  • When it clumps near the skin surface, you get a mole.

Modern skin bleaching cream inhibits melanin production.  Good creams include all-natural substances such as kojic acid and arbutin.

  1. These additives inhibit melanin production and gradually fade dark moles.
  2. Skin lighteners are considered specific, because they go to the source of moles.
  3. They can be applied with a finger tip or a Q-tip.
  4. They require repeated use over time.

Excessive melanin, drawn to the skin surface, explains everything from skin moles to birth marks. These are examples of what’s called hyperpigmentation. Medical researchers studied what they called “depigmenting agents”. These substances encourage melanin to disintegrate. Researchers examined over-the-counter skin bleaching creams which act as depigmenting agents.

The research proved skin bleaching creams utilizing kojic acid and arbutin worked.

Find a skin bleaching cream for skin moles.

Learn more about treating a mole.

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Sun Spots – What Causes Sun Spots and Are Using Skin Bleaching Creams an Effective Solution

December 10th, 2009

Sun spots appear when skin pigment absorbs harmful ultraviolet rays. The pigment – melanin – rises to the surface. It’s natural. It protects the skin from overexposure. The usual result is a skin tan.

 A sun spot is an unusual result called hyperpigmentation.

  • The melanin forms into clumps of darker cells.
  • Sun only makes sunspots worse.
  • According to the American Osteopathic College of Dermatology, a single day of sun undoes months of sun spot treatment.

 Many people use skin bleaching creams to fade sunspots.

  • Natural substances work to inhibit melanin production.
  • As skin naturally replenishes, new cells contain less and less melanin.
  • The natural ingredients kojic acid and arbutin hinder melanin production.
  • Kojic acid and arbutin are the basis of modern over-the-counter skin lighteners.

The alternative to fading is removal. Surgical excision of a sunspot is extreme. You trade a spot for a scar. Skin peeling strips the sunspot and also surrounding skin. Lasers are more targeted. Insurance seldom covers sunspot removal.

A health note: A doctor will distinguish a harmless sunspot from a malignant skin cancer (lentino maligna).  A spot that is not flat, is irregularly shaped, or contains more than one color may need attention.

How You Can Bleach Sunspots

Skin Bleaching Creams that Work

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African American Skin Bleaching – What Kind of Skin Bleaching Creams Are Safe?

December 10th, 2009

The evidence against hydroquinone continues to mount, especially regarding the use of hydroquinone skin bleaching creams on African-American skin.

 A study in the East African Medical Journal cited the case of a 30-year old woman who ran a cosmetics shop. She had been using two hydroquinone-based skin fading creams for four years. By the time she saw a doctor, she suffered chronic tiredness and a lack of feeling in her legs. The diagnosis was neuropathy, which is also called nerve degeneration.

 Otherwise, she was healthy. So the doctors advised the woman to stop using the hydroquinone creams.  Within four months the symptoms disappeared and she walked again without difficulty.

Smoother, milkier darkly-pigmented skin has become a fashion trend among people of African skin color. There are far safer, natural skin bleaching products for African skin that do not risk the nerve damage of hydroquinone.

  • Effective skin bleaching creams work by impacting the pigment melanin.
  • The doctors found kojic acid works to inhibit new melanin in skin cells.
  • It’s very safe. The Japanese diet has included kojic acid for general  health benefits for years.
  • Arbutin an alternative medicine that inhibits melanin activity.

Find kojic acid and Alpha Arbutin skin bleaching products.

Learn about safe skin bleaching.

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Hydroquinone Cream – The Dangers of Using a Skin Bleaching Cream Containing Hydroquinone

December 10th, 2009

It is not news that Great Britain banned hydroquinone. What’s making news in England is how seriously English health officials take the risk of hydroquinone in skin bleaching cream. Hydroquinone  causes a raft of serious side affects. Then English health authorities learned it was shown to cause cancer in skin bleaching products, and cracked down. But hydroquinone is still sold in the US, over-the-counter.

And you will find it in stuff made overseas and imported.

The English Consider Hydroquinone a Serious Risk. London Police Officers, wearing body armor, raided a cosmetics firm. The raid turned up smuggled bars of skin bleaching soap. Hydroquinone was listed right on the box. The danger is using hydroquinone repeatedly over large areas of the body. When the skin breaks, the chemical penetrates into the bloodstream to reach the liver and kidneys.  There it can cause more damage.  Bathing with it would be astonishingly dangerous.     Source:  CNN.com

As long as we are ruling out dangerous stuff in skin bleaching creams, a  note about Glutathione.
It’s an antioxidant that has surfaced as a skin lightener. A report in the International Journal of Cosmetic Science cautioned that there is no standard for how much glutathione should be allowed in skin bleaching creams.

 Translation: they don’t know how much is too much.

 How to Find Safe Skin Bleaching Products

More on Dangerous Hydroquinone

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Sammy Sosa and Skin Bleaching – A Skin Bleaching Cream in the Spotlight

December 2nd, 2009

Former baseball great Sammy Sosa has become the poster boy for men using skin lighteners. Sosa told the Univision Program “Primer Impacto” that he uses a facial cosmetic cream for skin lightening.

 “It’s a bleaching cream that I apply before going to bed and it whitens my skin,” said the former Chicago Cub. “It’s a cream that I use to soften [my skin], but it has bleached me some. I’m not a racist, I live my life happily. I don’t think I look like Michael Jackson.”

Sosa maintains he had been using the cream for a long time, and that his coloring washes out under bright TV lights, making his lighter skin more evident.

“I’m going to market it, I’m a businessman,” Sosa joked about the bleaching cream. All he will say bout the skin lightening cream is that he bought it in Europe. If Sosa’s cream came from Europe, it would not contain hydroquinone, a skin bleacher linked to cancer. It is still an ingredient in skin lighteners sold in the US.

Learn more about skin bleaching creams here.

More information on skin lightening.

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Skin Bleaching Cream – Look for Natural Products, Reject a Dangerous Chemical Ingredient Called Hydroquinone

December 2nd, 2009

Natural Ingredients to Look For in a Skin Bleaching Cream 

  1. Kojic acid-a melanin inhibitor which is natural substance
  2. Alpha Arbutin, a natural skin lightening agent found in plants
  3. Ascorbic Acid, or Vitamin C
  4. Azelaic acid
  5. Derivatives of Vitamin A, also known as retinoids
  6. Niacinamide, a form of Vitamin B-3 

The evidence against hydroquinone continues to mount, especially regarding the use of hydroquinone skin bleaching products on darker skin. 

A study in the East African Medical Journal cited the case of a 30-year old woman who ran a cosmetics shop. She had been using two hydroquinone-based skin bleaching creams for four years. By the time she saw a doctor, she suffered chronic tiredness and a lack of feeling in her legs. The diagnosis was neuropathy, a degeneration of the nervous system.

As she was otherwise healthy, the doctors advised the woman to stop using the skin bleaching cream.  Within four months the symptoms disappeared and she walked again without difficulty.

  •  Hydroquinone has been banned in the EU and Japan.
  • It is still available over-the-counter and in prescription form in the US, but should be avoided.

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