Skin Whitening

For whatever reason, you might be thinking about skin whitening. While there are many roads to the same destination (uniformly colored and radiant skin), some are a lot safer than others.

First, let’s look at the bad methods of skin whitening. Bleaching the skin with any number of chemicals that affect the pigmentation of the skin may not always have the desired effect.

There are, of course, hundreds of products out there that claim to help lighten your skin color or improve the overall quality of your skin. Some of these products may include one or more of the following – hydroquinone, mercury, arbutin, tretinoin, kojic acid and azelaic acid.

I don’t know about you, but those are some pretty scary names. Other methods include lasers, which doesn’t sound like it would be too much fun. (I’m sure it’s not the type of lasers they use in Star Trek, but still…)

Granted, glutathione has a name just as frightening and intimidating as the others just listed, but it’s something that occurs naturally in the body.

Glutathione is a “master antioxidant” that resides within cells of all living tissue. It’s what handles and routes toxins in the body to other antioxidants like Vitamin C and Vitamin E that operate outside the cell.

In simpler terms, it’s something you want to have in the right amounts in your body to help combat cell damage.

One of the side effects of increased amounts of glutathione in a person is that it causes skin whitening. It does this by inhibiting (blocking) melanin. Blocking melanin causes the pigmentation (color) of your skin to become lighter.

When this knowledge was first discovered, there weren’t any methods available to easily increase the body’s level of glutathione. Not a lot was known in the beginning. Recently, though, it’s been found that taking L-glutathione (a reduced form of glutathione) orally can help increase the body’s glutathione levels. It’s not as effective as delivery directly into the bloodstream, but taken orally in the right doses, it’s been shown to have an effect not only on skin color and the overall health of the skin.

So now we have a way to whiten skin and keep it healthy at the same time. If you’ve been considering skin whitening, you now have an option that will improve your skin tone, make it more uniform in color and also help keep your body healthy in other ways.

I don’t know about you, but this seems like a win-win situation. Glutathione isn’t a cure all, but it is a safe and healthy method of skin whitening. If that’s something you’re considering, for whatever reason, be sure to find out more about glutathione and how it might help you.

By: Gen Wright

Most of you must have heard about the tanning creams that help people in making their skin darker, but there are also lotions available to lighten your skin tone. This lotion or cream has been named as skin whitening cream. As the name tells, it does what it is named after. It helps in whitening the color of the skin and adds moisture and protective layer on the skin. It also helps in covering the dark spots, blemishes and discolorations to make them unnoticeable. The skin whitening creams helps in getting rid of all the flaws that your skin is having, maintaining the smoothness and moistness of your skin. Even if your skin is free from all the dark spots and blemishes and all you need is fair and whitish complexion then there are also creams available for it.

In the market there are all types of creams available. From normal creams to the ones that make your skin tone lighter by few shades. The ingredients for the normal cream are simple vitamins and herbs. That means they are made from natural products. In bleaching creams, there are some chemicals added to give the desired result. If your need is just to soften your skin then a basic lightening bleaching cream will do. However, if you want a mild or whole transformation then you must buy something stronger than that.

Using the whitening creams is simple. All you have to do is just apply it twice a day say morning and night. Take care that you don’t overdo the use of it as it can start showing the side-effects. The effect of these creams is visible within few weeks. Before going for any cream first test it because if doesn’t suite your skin type then it can cause allergy also. To be on the safe side firstly see the guidelines before applying them. Don’t give priority to the price. First test if the product suites your skin types then look-out for the price. Do your shopping online as you’ll get it on lesser price and also there will be wide variety to choose from. Most of the products are guaranteed. To test the cream start applying on the areas on which you want to see the result then start applying it on other parts is it suits you. The skin brightening lotions are bit expensive then the skin tanning creams.

By: Alien