Dangers Whitening Creams

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Whitening cream is one of a favorite beauty product. But behind these benefits, whitening creams can be dangerous to the body. Scorching sun rays often make the skin become darker. This makes the cream whitening to whiten the choice of many people for the skin to remain attractive appearance, especially women.

The problem can be made by bleaching creams are excessive white effect. Cream whitening is effective to make the skin become whiter than the sun but the cream should only be used within a certain period of time only.

According to Debra Jaliman spokesperson for the American Academy of Dermatology and author of Skin and Hair use bleaching creams monthly to yearly is not good for health as most bleaching creams contain hydroquinone, a substance that inhibits the production of melanin and should only be used in small concentrations, up to 20 %. Most of these creams contain four to six percent. Hydroquinone may cause side effects, the disease ochronosis. This disease makes your skin look blue-black.

Therefore consider you use bleaching creams. The following the trick tips:

1. whitening cream can be classified as cosmetics and drugs, depending on the type and levels of efficacious substance. Whitening cosmetics can be sold freely in the market currently have a prescription drug whitening and under the supervision of a physician. The difference between them based on the security level of use of efficacious substance. Such as bleaching agents for cosmetics only allowed Hydroquinone 2%, more than it should be treated as a drug, and that is retinoic acid skin peel may only be used under medical supervision.
2. Using bleach cream or a mixture of chemicals and other materials with the properties could memucatkan black spots (brown) on the skin. Intended use in the long term in order to eliminate or reduce hyperpigmentation of the skin. But the use of continuous it will cause pigmentation with permanent effects.
3. Similarly, the instant whitening, generally can cause a rebound effect that could give the opposite response when use is stopped. At first it tempting, just a few weeks seemed visible changes such as skin supple, smooth, wrinkles disappear, and more white. But once stopped the skin becomes dark or raised spots - spots even red like boiled shrimp. Excessive use of hydroquinone will cause skin irritation if it is stopped immediately and the skin will come back even worse.
4. Worse yet are already banned mercury to be used for whitening cream, it makes skin appear smooth white but over time will settle under the skin. After many - years of blue-black skin will even lead to cancer.
5. Based on the information the experts, since the rise of whitening cream products on the market, the number of contact dermatitis patients who went to the health services increased. The cause is allergies caused by substances - chemicals from bleaching creams. Treatment more difficult when the cause is unknown chemicals because the product is not registered or illegal.
6. Apparently a lot of whitening cream products are breaking the rules in terms of both advertising and composition, such as promises instant effects at relatively inexpensive prices. Consumers credulity when users concurrently seller seduce by showing facial skin supple, smooth, wrinkles disappear, and appear white. The results were amazing make consumers forget to ask about the side effects and how to use the right and the actual content of these whitening creams.
7. Choosing the right cosmetics is consumer, advertising or promotional therefore becomes very important for manufacturers. Consumers do not know that cosmetics can not efficacious or affect the metabolism of the body like a drug. Not to mention the wrong way of life, such as women - women with shiny faces using whitening products goes - the road during the day when they should not be exposed to sunlight.