Healthy Natural Skin

Tuesday January 10th
Does The Perfect Skin Lightener Exist?
Before you buy what you think is the perfect skin lightener, you should stop for a moment and think! Do you know what ochronosis is? Well, this is a skin condition where your skin actually gets darker after using the infamous hydroquinone bleaching agent. You get the exact opposite of what you were aiming for. That is really bad news.

But there is even more bad news in that this substance can also cause other significant health problems which are no joke:-

·        kidney damage

·        damages adrenal glands

·        may be implicated in causing cancer

It should therefore come as no surprise to learn that the EU, Japanand South Africahave banned this substance from all skincare and personal care products. South Africa is a case in point as this hydroquinone is still smuggled into the country so this is one of the reasons why they had to ban it.

In the USA, a lot more needs to be done to raise awareness among African and Latina women about the dangers of hair relaxers or strengtheners and the skin lighteners. These women are often under enormous pressure to start to change their look to conform to what they think society expects. But at what cost?

Consider the work of the New York WE ACT for Environmental Justice and you will get an idea of some of the problems involved and also the dangers that some women are facing.

The alarm was also raised by an article in the Chicago Tribune which did a survey on about 50 skin lighteners on sale in the area. They were shocked to find that the so called perfect skin lightener also contained mercury. This, in spite of a ban by the FDA back in 1990 which outlawed it.

About 5 out of the 50 products surveyed had 6,000 parts per million. Now that is enough to cause kidney damage over time so some experts and dermatologists from the Chicago area were quite shocked that this was actually happening under their noses. It just goes to show that there are always unscrupulous merchants prepared to break the law, in order to make a quick buck.

When we talk about the ideal skin lightener, we are just not thinking of lightening the actual color and reducing pigmentation but also on how to get rid of age spots and freckles. As you can see, that covers an enormous market.

So let me tell me tell you about one fantastic ingredient in the perfect skin lightener which has been developed in New Zealand. It is perfectly safe and natural and will not damage your health in any way. The money spent on research of this ingredient has been considerable and often at the expense of advertising the products. Now that tells you how serious this company is.

The name of the secret ingredient is extrapone nutgrass. It is sourced from the plant of the same name and is really effective in reducing the production of melanin (the coloring natural agent present in our bodies) by up to 40%.   If used constantly, it can smooth all that discoloration away and give you perfectly glowing skin with a lovely even tone.

Now, what more can you ask for? Actually, there is more but you can discover what these ingredients are just by visiting my main site. Now this is what we really mean when we talk about the perfect skin lightener.