Sunday, 13 May 2018

SB2 - Research Skin Bleaching in South Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWHCwXZpH6E

> 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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