1. #Skin Bleaching Affects Families
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"Skin is Skin", so whatever your complexion, it’s important to use products that will help your skin and not damage it as skin bleaching will.
2. Skin bleaching has proven to be a growing trend with many people embracing it for different reasons. Medics, however, warn that the act comes with several risks that are extremely damaging to one’s health.
3. Currently, the active ingredients in skin-lightening products are hydroquinone, mercury, and corticosteroids. Most products on the market include one or all of these ingredients at concentrations that exceed the recommended value.
4. These ingredients have been linked to complications such as hypertension, diabetes, insomnia, and memory loss. These ingredients can also damage your kidneys. Another complication of long term use of the same products is body odor.
5. Exposure to mercury can have serious health consequences. The danger isn’t just to people who use mercury-containing products but also to their families. Your family might breathe mercury vapors released from these products.
6. Your children might touch washcloths or towels that are contaminated with mercury. If your children snuggle up against you, the mercury can be absorbed through their skin and over time accumulate to harm their developing brains.
7. Some people – including pregnant women, nursing babies, and young children – are especially vulnerable to mercury toxicity. Babies may be particularly sensitive to the damage mercury can cause to their developing brains and nervous systems.
8. Newborns who nurse are vulnerable because mercury is passed into breast milk.
Your husband/partner can also develop serious health problems if your skin-lightening product contains mercury. He could develop mercury poisoning, which can cause mood changes and tremors.
9. Mercury poisoning can also lead to problems with eyesight & hearing.
Let us save steroid and hydroquinone side-effects for another day.
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