Safe Use Of Skin Lightening Creams

Skin Lightening Safety

There are many different products out there that have a claim to be able to bleach your skin safely, but not all of them are safe, and so it's important to know what to look for when shopping for a safe skin whitening cream.

The first thing you should beware of is products containing mercury, and it may not always be apparent that they do contain the substance, they may not even have the active ingredients listed on the site.

Those products containing mercury were cheap products made in Africa and Asia, and most of them have been pulled from production, but there are still some floating around, so you have to be careful.

It's important to do your research on a brand carefully, or the chemicals used in the cream. For example, even a cream prescribed by a doctor can have terrible side effects.

Hydroquinone creams have been prescribed for years, but the bad side effects of long term use have also been known for years.

Some countries have banned the sale of the product, while in other countries it's only prescribed in rare situations and the results and application are carefully monitored.

Another type of skin whitening substance that you should avoid is anything that claims to whiten your skin by you taking a pill orally.

You cannot bleach your skin white by taking a pill, and if you could, then it couldn't be very good for you, in fact it would probably kill you in the process.

The Best Skin Bleaching Methods

The best way to bleach or whiten your skin safely is to use a combination of arbutin, and alpha hydroxy acids like glycolic acid. 

These chemicals have been used for years over the counter and there have been few if any bad side effects to report, so long as people are very careful to follow the application instructions to the letter. 

Arbutin is the substance that hydroquinone is derived from, but it is much weaker and so has less side effects, and when combined with glycolic acid in the right percentage, it creates a cream which can be used safely and effectively for the lifetime of the user. 

The effects of the cream are relatively permanent, but you will need to reapply the product every few months, as new skin cells are always growing to replace the old ones, and this results in your skin naturally returning to it's original color. 

The link to the Facebook page of the site is in the sidebar, and I would suggest that you join that for ongoing helpful skin whitening tips before continuing to the main site. 

Once you get there, have a talk to the helpful support staff and find out everything you need to know about how to apply the cream, how much it will cost, and what are the results that you can expect over time. 

What Color Is My Skin? Free Skin Tone Reference Chart

This is a skin tone comparison chart, (or part of it), which you can use to compare your own skin to the photos, and work out if you have olive skin or fair, black or dark brown.

It doesn't really matter what color your skin is, but it might make a difference if you are planning on changing the color with a lightening cream.

Yes, if you didn't know, it is possible to change your skin tone, in fact many Hollywood celebrities have done it, especially African Americans.

Some famous people who have obviously bleached their skin, (allegedly), are Michael Jackson, Rihanna and Beyonce.

If you look at the before and after photos, it's easy to tell that they did, for example, here's a before and after shot of Rihanna:

As you can see, she turned from dark brown to olive in complexion pretty much overnight, from using some sort of skin whitening product.

Talking of that, there are only a few chemicals which are safe to use for this kind of treatment. You should be looking for a cream with either arbutin, glycolic acid, or kojic acid, and you should avoid anything with hydroquinone or mercury, or any product where the directions say you can swallow a pill to bleach your skin white. That's not true at all and is potentially very dangerous.

The photo up the top of the sidebar leads to the Facebook page of Tonique Skin Care, a trusted site offering a safe and effective product, or you can also get there by clicking on the link at the top of this article, to check out the skin tone chart. 

Again, it doesn't matter what color your skin is, but it does if you are planning on using a powerful skin whitening treatment to get rid of uneven skin, or for cosmetic reasons, and that's why you need to talk to the experts.

What Should I Use To Bleach My Skin?

What Treatment Should You Use To Bleach Your Skin?

There are many different treatments for sale that can whiten your skin, but perhaps the first thing you should ask yourself is why you want to do that.

About half of the people who seek whitening treatments are doing it for medical reasons, such as having birthmarks, freckles, scars, spots, or a condition like hypo-pigmentation or hyper-pigmentation. 

The other half might have a cultural or cosmetic reason to lighten their skin, for example in China, and other Asian countries, it's seen as being more beautiful or a status symbol to be whiter in skin tone. 

You could argue that both reasons are not purely necessary from a medical point of view, and both are a matter of vanity, but it is important to make sure that you are doing it for the right reasons, and that you know what to expect, as with any serious cosmetic procedure. 

For a darker skinned person, it can be quite a big change to go from brown or dark yellow to white practically overnight, but then that is what a lot of people are looking for, for various reasons. 

Different Skin Whitening Treatments

If you are just looking for very subtle results, like a very mild change in skin tone, you might want to try these home remedies, but if you want a really good result, then you should check out the site in the sidebar. 

At the top of the sidebar there is a banner ad that leads to the Facebook page of Tonique Skin Care, which is a trusted, established company that sells skin whitening cream that works effectively, and without any harmful side effects. 

It contains natural, FDA approved over the counter chemicals such as arbutin and glycolic acid. 

You can look those up on Google if you want, in the Wikipedia entries that explain what they do. You might also want to look up the opposite sort of chemicals, the ones that you don't want to use. 

The most important types of treatments to avoid when bleaching your skin are hydroquinone, mercury, and any product which suggests you can whiten your skin by swallowing poisonous chemicals. 

That's right, there are actually products out there that suggest you take a pill full of bleach or whatever to make your skin whiter, and of course it doesn't work. 

You have to be really careful, and that's why you need to know how to check out a brand name to see how trustworthy it really is. 

What you do is a who is lookup to determine the age of the domain, (google who is along with the domain name or company name), then after working out the site has been there for years, you then search for the company name along with keywords such as scam, problems, and side effects. 

That should bring up reviews of the site and it's products, which will tell you something about whether they can be trusted or not. 

Again, you get to the site by clicking on the Facebook page banner photo in the sidebar, and then like the page to get helpful tips on skin bleaching before going to the site by clicking on the Go To Site tab on the Facebook page.

Changing Your Skin Color

How To Change Your Skin Color

This page gives you some idea of how you can change your skin color quickly and easily. As you can see from these before and after photos of big stars Rihanna and Beyonce, you can go from black to white literally overnight, without people barely even noticing. 

Like I never even thought that those two big pop stars had bleached their skin, even though I saw them since the beginning of their careers, and when they started out in the music industry, they were completely dark in skin tone. 

It must have been on advice from their agents that they made the change, and it is quite a huge change to make, going from black to white for no other reason than it might improve record sales. 

That's basically the underlying motive behind these big Hollywood stars bleaching their skin white. Skin bleaching by African Americans is a big thing in Hollywood, because they've done studies that show that the mostly white audience is more responsive and accepting of a lighter skinned African American. 

It may be somewhat racist to do a study like that in the first place, and then ask your biggest stars to bleach their skin white, but they aren't dumb, and realize that the figures don't lie, and you will actually have more chance of hitting the top of the charts if you have lighter skin. 

So how do your actually change your skin color? How do you bleach your skin white, if that's what you want to do for whatever reason?

Changing Your Skin Color

Changing your skin color is a big decision to make, especially if you are very dark naturally. Still, it can be done safely and effectively with over the counter or non-prescription creams. 

You should be careful to avoid using hydroquinone, or any product containing mercury, as these chemicals are highly toxic, and are still prescribed or sold mistakenly by everyone from doctors to shady internet dealers from Asia. 

The best chemicals to look for as the active ingredients of a cream are arbutin, glycolic acid, lactic acid, kojic acid, sepiwhite FSH, and ascorbic acid. 

These chemicals if mixed up in the right way can be used for long periods of time without any harsh side effects, and they do have a seriously potent effect on the color of your skin. 

You can control how much of an effect the chemicals have by the frequency of which you apply them, because your skin will naturally start to turn back to it's original color if the cream is not applied, over a period of weeks. 

However the basic idea is that you will turn out completely white. For more information on those chemicals, see safe skin bleaching treatments, and this CNN article on the illegal skin bleaching trade in the UK.

That article is about the sale of creams containing hydroquinone, which is a banned substance in the UK. The other ingredients I mentioned are not banned, and can be found in quality skin lightening products like the ones on this site, and in the links in this post.