Be Happy With Your Skin Colour

Some people in Africa, Southern Asia, the Canbbean, and the Middle East associate a Lighter complexion with prosperity and high fashion. As a result, a considerable number of men and women in the world use products to lighter their skintone but sometimes at a high cost to their health.

Some skin lightening cream which people use contain hydroquinone which is very dangerous to skin, a bleaching agent that suppresses the production of melanin, thus reducing the skin’s natural protection against damaging aultraviotet radiation. Hydroquinone penetrates the skin and may cause irreversible damage to connective tissue. A result is premature aging. The chemicals may also be cancer causing. Other creams contain mercury, which is another toxin.

Furthermore, continuous use of such product can cause disfiguring rashes, unsightly blotches, and skin so weakened that it can not be stitched if act. And if the chemicals in some of these cosmetics which people use are absorbed into the blood stream, they can damage the Liver, the kidneys on the brain even causing organ failure.

Ironically, while some dark skinned people want to lighten their complexion, many fair skinned people men and women in the world today go to great lengths to get a deep fair. To be sure, moderate exposure to the sum can be healthful. It can, for example, enable the production of vitamin D. but extended exposure, especially when the sun is high in the sky, can be harmful. A fair, in fact, indiseates that the skin has already suffered damage and is trying to protect itself from further exposure to harmful ultraviolet rays. But that protection is limited. A dark fan on fair skin for instance, provides a sun protection factor of no more than four. While regular use of sun screams may help, it does not provides complete protection against skin damage and certain cancers, including melanoma. Those are the effect of bleaching cream.

Hence, the world health organization recommends strengthening the massage that every one should be happy with their natural skin colour which is very important step in promoting sunsmart.

Attitudes. However, those who are truly wise focus on the secret person of the heart which unlike aging skin, can improve with time.

Iheanyi Obodokwe Odluck/Ajaegbu Ijeoma