What are the differences between bleaching creams and lightening creams? Or are they all the same? Well, it seems 'bleaching' creams may cause psychiatric problems, in addition to ruining your skin in the long run, causing skin cancer and giving you kidney problems. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC expressed concern over the alarming use of bleaching creams and skin whitening agents. It equally warned against the continued use of banned chemicals by unscrupulous cosmetics manufacturers. NAFDAC warned that such chemicals, aside from causing cancer, could lead to psychiatric and kidney problems. Director-General of the agency, Dr. Paul Orhii, said the use of glutathione intravenous as a skin whitener was unsafe and might result in serious consequences, including cancer. He expressed concern that the urge to satisfy customers’ ever-increasing demands and the bid to make profits had driven some cosmetics manufacturers into experimenting with raw materials with little or no safety records. He said: “Skin bleaching is a cosmetic treatment to reduce the prominence of skin discolourations and even out skin colour. “Some people apply skin lightener to their entire body to change their complexion, but this can be very risky. The active ingredient in some skin lighteners is mercury and so bleaching can lead to mercury poisoning.
So sisters and brothers, if you must bleach your skin, or lighten {whenever I hear 'bleach', Jik and Hypo come to mind} or whatever they call it, please have this article at the back of your mind. -
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Posted: at 19-10-2015 11:25 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
aspeng007 at 19-10-2015 11:32 AM (8 years ago) (m)
Just dat,what abt infertility?just askin o
Posted: at 19-10-2015 11:32 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
pcrockette at 20-10-2015 12:13 AM (8 years ago) (f)
what a shame!!!!!! beautiful black women should be greatful for the skin that they were given by the creator,instead they want to undo his perfect work by destroying their natural beauty. look around and you will see that the women who you think are so beautiful would give anything to have what you were given at birth ,which is your beautiful skin color and your kinky hair please my sisters, wake up and know that you are not beautiful at all with your hideous color because you now look like a "mummy" and should only be seen on "horror" posters"STOP THE MADDNESS" I beg!!!! Patsie crockette from the Bronx ny
Posted: at 20-10-2015 12:13 AM (8 years ago) | Newbie
allenspike at 20-10-2015 06:26 AM (8 years ago) (m)
Na who dem dey bleach to impress sef, this girl above wey them use take do example now, assuming na me be wan date her, how she go expect me make I feel, after seeing her before and after pics..Nonsense
So sisters and brothers, if you must bleach your skin, or lighten {whenever I hear 'bleach', Jik and Hypo come to mind} or whatever they call it, please have this article at the back of your mind. - lol
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Posted: at 22-10-2015 10:59 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Wow! see change of face from black to white. The lives of those bleaching really get as e be.
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Posted: at 22-10-2015 11:01 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Double wahala! Person go bleach and get mad again. We just go dey see bleached white man.
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Posted: at 22-10-2015 11:03 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero