We Know: How Skin Brightening Creams Work

What Are Skin Brightening Creams?

Skin brightening creams are special chemical skin cream formulations closely related to gentle skin peels. They remove freckles and may make your skin a few shades lighter. They also help to remove dead skin and ultimately make you look younger.

What Are The Benefits of Skin Brightening Creams?

Skin brightening creams have been used in India and Japan for years to make women look younger -- and lighter. Culturally in these places, women with lighter skin are considered more attractive.

But that's not the only reason to use skin brighteners. They are excellent exfoliants, and can smooth out your skin to prepare it for other treatments or for cosmetics. They also tend to plump out the skin, which also helps reduce fine lines.

What Are Common Skin Brightening Cream Ingredients?

Good skin brightening cream ingredients include many natural substances, including the following:

  • Vitamins A, C, and E
  • Licorice root extract
  • Mulberry
  • Saxifrage
  • Lactic Acid

What Are The Dangers of Skin Brightening Creams?

Though these ingredients are limited or completely banned in the United States, manufacturers in several countries use poisons in their brightening creams, including but not limited to:

  1. Arsenic
  2. Lead
  3. Hydroquinone
  4. Azelaic acid
  5. Arbutin

These substances are all effective skin lighteners; they are also poisons that can damage your skin permanently and lead to nervous system damage and death. Though many consumers assume (correctly) that these products are completely banned in the US, that does not mean they are not sold. You can find several of these products in ethnic stores, particularly stores that sell products from the Caribbean and Africa. Fair & Lovely is one of the brands that has historically used poisonous substances for skin brightening, though today's Ayurvedic versions are fine; to keep yourself safe, read all ingredients for skin brightening products carefully. Any time you purchase imported skin treatments, scan the list of ingredients. If you have been using one and you're in doubt, take it to your doctor the next time you go.


To protect yourself, if you really want a skin lightener, buy it at the beauty counter at a store you trust, or ask a dermatologist first.



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