Before You Bleach Your Skin, These Are The Consequences.

Bleaching is, in fact, a process in which the hair on the skin is bleached to match with the actual skin tone. However, the side effects are:

• Dark grey spots
  
  
• Skin cancer
  
  
• Acne
  
  
• Swelling of the skin
  
  
• Thinning of the skin
  
  
• Cataracts
  
  
• Setting down of fat on face, chest, upper back and stomach
  
  
• Increase in appetite and weight gain
  
  
• Osteoporosis
  
  
• Neurological and kidney damage due to high level of mercury used in the creams
  
  
• Psychiatric disorders
  
  
• Severe birth defects
  
  
• Asthma
  
  
• Liver damage

 Some of these side effects could be seen almost immediately while some are seen after prolonged use of skin whitening creams.