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DO YOU THAT: Women Are Using Household Bleach In Dangerous Home Facials In The Hope Of Making Their Skin Glow

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The world of beauty is getting far dangerous—as several women continue to put their lives at risk in search for beauty and perfection…

It has emerged that,  despite expert and medical advice, several women looking to have glowing skin are relying on a dangerous DIY facial cream that contains bleach, capable of burning the skin.

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According to MailOnline;

A dangerous trend for home facials containing household bleach has emerged as a DIY means of ‘achieving glowing skin’.

Despite medical warnings that bleach can actually burn one’s skin, internet forums and at-home practitioners claim that the caustic solution has anti-aging and renewal benefits.

The vogue for such facials appears to have emerged following a November study at Stanford University School of Medicine – although similar skin lightening and brightening techniques have been around for quite some time.

Researchers tested mice with radiation dermatitis – an side effect of chemotherapy and radiation treatments – by bathing them in a diluted bleach solution for 30 minutes a day.

They found that ‘the inexpensive, widely available household chemical could provide a new way to treat skin damage caused by radiation therapy, excess sun exposure or aging.’

The study concluded: ‘Animals bathed in the bleach solution experienced less severe skin damage and better healing and hair regrowth than animals bathed in water.’

But Scottsdale, Arizona-based plastic surgeon Dr Daniel Shapiro said that the findings should not be applied to home beauty treatments.

He told ABCNews.com: ‘I wouldn’t recommend trying the bleach facial at home. . . We are not chemists, and we cannot produce the exact dilution rate the Stanford scientists used.’

He added that the study’s .0005 dilution rate would be hard for at-home practitioners to replicate.

‘Any higher concentration of bleach can burn your skin,’ he explained.

Online how-to forum WikiHow currently offers instructions of how to apply bleach to one’s face.

‘Having a special party, an occasion you want to get that glow for your skin here is the good way to get that! Bleaching is a good alternative who want to get the glow for the face at home avoiding expensive salon trips. So lets get the stuff ready!’ it says.

Rather than use a bottled bleach, the site advises using a cream bleach – the kind often employed for lightening facial hair.

Much like it’s facial hair application, WikiHow says to keep the cream solution on one’s face for 12-15 minutes.

It strongly advises to apply a homemade soothing face pack afterwards.

Bleaching creams have long been popular in Asian cosmetic markets where porcelain-white skintones are highly valued.

Even brands including Christian Dior have issued their own ‘brightening’ cream lines.

In the United States, lightening creams that incorporate bleach derivatives are used to treat scarred or uneven skintones.

‘Dermatologists treat skin problems with bleach-based creams,’ Dr Shapiro said.

‘The ingredient helps make collagen thicker, and I do see how bleach can be a potentially promising product for anti-aging based on this study. But it will need a great amount of work.’



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1 thought on “DO YOU THAT: Women Are Using Household Bleach In Dangerous Home Facials In The Hope Of Making Their Skin Glow”

  1. the problem is that we are living in a society where bleaching is encouraged despite the fact that some of us know the health implications of that practice.

    I´ve observed that lightskinned people are openly praised for their beauty/attractiveness and people think that someone who has bleached has improved his or her skin colour.

    And people such as Yvonne Nelson are making that worse: They know that bleaching is bad but they secretly admire light skin.

    To adress the whole issue we have to discuss our mindset.

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