> This video looks at the dangers of bleaching products, this means the
notes taken from the video:
- It's illegal to sell bleaching brightening products skin creams in South Africa
- Recent study shows that 1 in 3 women buy bleaching products
- Banned as scientists say you risk getting cancer or other serious conditions.
- skin bleaching creams are smuggles in South Africa
- Black struggle for political power
- The illegal creams are everywhere - venders refuse to be apart of the documentary, and it's being sold in mass
- Interviews a student who uses skin bleaching creams for two years, "when I compare myself to now, I'm more appealing as I'm lighter"
- A famous singer in South Africa is known for her skin bleaching, she's a well known rapper.
- She's a role model, and famous for her singing and skin bleaching.
- She says she used it for her medical purposes, but admits how it has helped her as a celebrity.
- The products can take you to different levels of lightness.
- The creams sell at £86 each
- yellow - slang from American south that your a light skinned girl
- 'you are more visible to people'
- Being lighter have a better chance at getting a job
- 'It stings a little bit' - when the cream is placed on her face
- Hyrdoquinone, penetrates the skin and stops the development of melanin and is researched to cause cancer.
- Being lighter makes you more successful
- Her producer says that being being lighter is viewed as more beautiful so they push for that for the success.
- A patient has used illegal bleaching creams, and has given her a painful skin problem.
- 90% of the people using the products don't know whats in the products
- Mercury is also used in bleaching.
- Melanin is what protects your skin from skin cancer
- The bleaching product doesn't show what it contains.
- US influence is Beyonce
- skin bleaching is seen as a way that racism is still abound.
- a skin that Jeff is using has mercury in the product, and he had no clue, but he says he still will use the cream, as it is wokrking.
- After using bleaching products, the singer finds being in the sun feels like her skin is burning.
- The singer hid the fact that she knew about the fact hydroquinone is in the products.
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