How do you make your skin lighter in color?

Answer 1

Right now, there are many creams in the market that promise to make the skin lighter. While some fulfills that promise, others do not. The creams that make the skin lighter limits or blocks the production of melanin, the substance that gives the skin its color. Skin lightening creams usually include ingredients such as kojic acid, salicylic acid and arbutin.

It is important to note that while some creams really make the skin fairer, they do not do so in a safe way. Hydroquinone, another ingredient in most skin lightening creams, is said to be carcinogenic. It is best to use skin lightening creams which are effective but free from such ingredients (Whiterderm, etc).

Answer 2

The darkness in human skin is caused by the amount of melanine present in it. Various ethnic groups contain different levels of melanine due to the various levels of exposure to sunlight in the regions these ethnic groups origniate from.

Northern climates typically receive less sunlight, be it due to the rotation of the earth or normal weather patterns. Thus people from these regions tend to be fair skinned and haired. Thusly, if you which to lighten the skin color of your body, you may attempt to move to a northern area, usually one with plenty of snow fall. Alternatively, stay inside out of the sunlight and you may experience a slight change in your skin tone. These effects may take serveral years to accomplish based on your ethnicity and the conditions of your environment, and may take no effect at all.

Answer 3

First of all, having dark skin is beautiful. In fact, many Americans and Europeans are finding ways to achieve a darker skin color, and yet, all they get is a temporary sunburn or redness on the skin, and a few weeks later, they're back to being fair-skinned.

However, if having a fairer complexion is what you're really after, following are some tips on how to achieve your goal:

1. Skin lightening lotions and creams - look for products that have generous amounts of glutathione, vitamin C, kojic acid, arbutin, and azelaic acid. Likewise, your bleaching creams must be free from mineral oils, alcohol, and harmful bleaching ingredients that can irritate the skin.

2. Skin lightening injections - already becoming a fad these days, glutathione is the most popular injection being used. Usually, one should take large doses of vitamin C orally when opting for this method for maximum benefits.

3. Whitening pills - usually contain large doses of glutathione and vitamin C.

4. Soaps - choose soaps with papaya as base. Papaya is said to contain an enzyme, papain, that lightens the skin. You may opt for the orange papaya variety or the green papaya (although it's said that green papaya is the better choice).

5. Chemical Peels - skin whitening products that are administered by a dermatologist. These peeling solutions are applied on the skin which, in turn, "burns" the skin, resulting in a lighter and more even skin tone.

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Answer 4

if you have dark or olivey skin colour in winter it should come lighter because its cooler and there is not enough sunlight to make your skin darker

Answer 5

The easiest thing to do is eat healthy or keep out of the sun, very simple. But, if you want to be light, i mean really light, then be active outgoing.