- Categories: Skin Whitening
- Tags: Antioxidant, Antioxidants, Bloodstream, Chemicals, Desired Effect, Glutathione Levels, Hydroquinone, Kojic Acid, L Glutathione, Lasers, Many Roads, Melanin, Pigmentation, Radiant Skin, Safe Way, Skin Color, Star Trek, Tretinoin, Vitamin C, Vitamin E
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
- Categories: Skin Whitening
- Tags: Allergy, Bleaching Cream, Blemishes, Chemicals, Complexion, First Test, Herbs, Lotions, Priority, Safe Side, Shades, Skin Tone, Skin Type, Skin Types, Skin Whitening Cream, Skin Whitening Creams, Smoothness, Tanning Creams, Transformation, Vitamins
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
- Categories: Skin Whitening
- Tags: Age Spots, Appearance, Bleaches, Borders, Cells, Chemicals, Collagen And Elastin, Connective Tissues, Elevation, Hyperpigmentation, Keratin, Lines And Wrinkles, Melanin, People, Proteins, Summertime, Sun Damaged Skin, Sun Spots, Tendency, Ultraviolet Radiation
People generally underestimate the effect that sun damaged skin has on the way that you look as you get older. The more time that you spend exposed to the ultraviolet radiation of the sun, the more lines and wrinkles that will form on your skin. These lines will typically form earlier than they would have had you not spent time soaking up rays, and are usually deeper.
Another thing that could result from this exposure is what is typically referred to as age spots. These spots on your skin are formed by the same melanin hyperpigmentation that causes your skin to tan in the summertime. Age spots, or sun spots, occur when cells in your skin become so badly damaged that the melanin hyperpigmentation becomes permanent.
The first thing that I want to tell you about treating the lines and wrinkles that result from sun damaged skin is to avoid the use of the typical collagen and elastin formulas on the market. These products will not reduce the lines on your skin, because the two main ingredients cannot be absorbed. They are simply too dense to be able to pass through your skin.
The most effective ingredient for alleviating these lines is a pair of proteins that are known together as Functional Keratin. What Functional Keratin does for your skin is it causes an elevation in the production rate of your collagen and elastin. As the amount of these connective tissues grows, the lines and wrinkles on your skin begin to disappear.
There are plenty of formulas out there that are designed to treat the age spots formed by sun damaged skin also. These skin whitening formulas are ineffective due to the fact that there are chemical bleaching agents in them for removing the hyperpigmentation from your skin. These bleaches will do a lot more harm to your skin than they will good.
These chemicals have a tendency to spread out beyond the borders of the area being treated. When this happens your skin becomes mottled or blotchy in appearance, and your hyper-pigmented areas will still appear clearly. There are far better ingredients that you could be using on your skin than these chemical agents, and these compounds are far more effective in treating your problem.
In order for you to be able to remove the brown spots caused by sun damaged skin, your product needs to contain an ingredient that is known as Extrapone nutgrass root extract. This extract has been in use for thousands of years in India, where this nutgrass grows freely. This compound is the most effective natural melanin inhibitor in the world.
Not only will Extrapone root extract lighten the affected areas and blend them back in with the rest of your skin, but it will also prevent new outbreaks of these spots from forming. This ingredient in combination with a collagen and elastin enhancer such as Functional Keratin, is all that you will ever need in order to give your sun damaged skin its youthful appearance once again.
By: Elizabeth Ruby