SKIN BLEACHING

Variety is the spice of life, such as variety in food, clothes, hairstyles, etc. Variety also abounds in nature. That is why all people on Earth belong to different types of skin colours, from white to yellow and to black. Our living environment accounts for the different skin colours we have. For example, in cold climatic regions such as Europe, inhabitants tend to have a lighter complex due to the cold weather, whereas in Africa, darker skin is better suited in the hot and humid climate.

However, many people are bleaching their skin. Why do they do that? Is fairer skin really more appealing than darker skin?
Most ladies are proud and happy about their original skin colour but others would always want to change from their original skin to a supposed preferable one. They go in for products with the intention of changing their skin colour but unknowingly those products cannot be used in the tropics to get its desired effect.
Some would say “Black is beautiful, so why do I bleach my skin?” But some would say “I don’t like my colour people say I am too dark and they call me ‘Blackie’” They are so much intimidated by what people say about them and in trying to solve this problem, they end up messing up.

Moreover the proliferation of the beauty products and cosmetics on the market without education leads people into this situation.
Skin bleaching destroys the black pigment found in the epidermis (top layer of the skin). When this happens, the exposure of the dermis layer, underneath the epidermis layer, to the harsh weather will increase the incidence of skin cancer. The dermis cannot compensate for the absence of the epidermis and coupled with the hot sun, one will get a higher risk of cancer.

Most ladies too do not stick to one type of product. They end up switching from one product to the other within a short time. This is because they see no effective change in what they use and turn to have irritations on their skin. Since they do not know the exact product that caused their irritation it cannot be corrected as soon as possible. For these irritations, which include rashes, pimples and so on, it would take a long time to be corrected.

Thus we can see that though having fairer skin as desired, skin bleaching is also damaging to our skin.