Whitening skin care beauty expert Dr. Nithiwadi Phuchareuyot from Bangkok in Thailand who specializes in lightening skin care treatments, said: “Every Thai girl thinks that if she has white skin the money will come and the men will come. The movie stars are all white-skinned, and everyone wants to look like a superstar.”
Skin whitening has been forcefully promoted across Asia and other Western countries, with wide collection of whitening skin care beauty creams on supermarket and pharmacy shelves evidence to a skin lightening business that has boomed over the past decade.
In Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan, 4 of every 10 women use a whitening skin care beauty cream, what was found and reported in a survey conducted by Synovate, a market research company.
As a matter of fact most of the whitening skin care creams is harmless but still; doctors, end user and government officials are reporting dangerous consequences of the fashion. Mostly involving women who use blemish creams in large, damaging quantity; cheap black-market lightening skin care products with potent but prohibited bleaching agents are selling quickly, particularly in the poorer parts of South and Southeast Asia.
“I never look in the mirror anymore,” – said Panya Boonchun one of the victims.
The whitening skin care beauty cream that she used on her face and neck should convert her into a white-skinned beauty, the kind of magazines and television celebrities.
Unfortunately, unlawfully made lightening skin care lotion she purchased in a village store turned her skin into a patchwork of albino pink and dark brown. Doctors who examined her said that her condition may be permanent.
Whitening skin care beauty products work in a range of different ways. A number of lightening skin care products contains acids that take away old skin to expose newer, lighter skin beneath. Other skin whiteners restrain melanin, especially those with mulberry extract, licorice extract, kojic acid, arbutin and hydroquinone, a component in prescription creams for blemishes as well as in photo processing materials.
Hydroquinone has been shown to be a reason of leukemia in mice and other animals. The large number of Western countries starting with European Union made it illegal to use in cosmetics in 2001, but it emerges in copy illegally whitening skin care beauty creams in the developing world. It is also sold In North America as an over-the-counter drug but it can’t exceed 2 percent of hydroquinone in concentration.
Even with such a strict control in different countries, Thailand’s Food and Drug Administration has announced a list of 70 banned whitening skin care creams. At the same time, Indonesian authority has acknowledged more than 50 illegal lightening skin care cosmetics.
Thada Piamphongsant, the president of the Thai Society of Cosmetic Dermatology and Surgery said; “It’s very sad that about 50 percent of all dermatologists in Thailand prescribe skin whitening creams with hydroquinone. He decided to end recommending it a decade ago seeing patients with redness and itching and with more severe consequences like ochronosis, the formation of very dark patches of skin that are complicated to get rid of.”
Several users of illegal whitening skin care beauty products also develop leukoderma, type of the skin disorder when the skin is unable to produce pigment, following in patches of pink like those on Ms. Panya’s Boonchun face and neck.
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