Skin Lightening Products are common place among Asian people especially the Chinese. The Chinese believe the fairer the skin, the more class and beauty the person is. Thus in this multi-million dollar industry, big brands such as Olay and L’oreal often find themselves competing with fly-by-night operators packaging their products in home ‘factories’. There are literally hundreds of whitening products on the market of these countries, and in most of them, regulation is either very lax or non-existent.
There are indeed many cheap skin lightening products that produce fast results . However, consumers often find themselves paying a much higher price later, in the form of permanent skin damage, or worse, organ damage and skin cancer. This is because such products use dangerous chemicals like hydroquinone and mercury as their active ingredient. These ingredients are prevalent in cheap lightening products because of the low cost of the ingredients - hydroquinone in particular, is far cheaper compared to other safer melanin-inhibitors such as concentrated licorice extract. To read more, visit Beauty Tips and Articles.