How can we mobilize knowledge about colorism in Asian Communities and eradicate this prejudice?

 
 
 
 

Simply Ask “Why?”

 

Light skin continues to imply that an individual was in the higher working class and had better education.

These medicines, creams, injections, foods, and drinks can include mercury, hydroquinone, and other harmful ingredients, which cause poisoning, skin damage, liver and kidney malfunction, corticosteroids, and much, much more.

In Korea, Malaysia, India, China, Vietnam, the Philippines and more, over fifty percent of their population use some sort of skin lightening treatment.

 
 

Spark Change

Colorism is never spoken about between family and friends in Asia, but it is always implicated within everyday lives.

Most answers lead back to history, and how each generation was always secretly educated that being lighter is better.

What To Watch Out For

  • Equisetum Arvense.

    It has not yet been proven that Equisetum Arvense can be poisonous for humans. However, the plant does contain chemicals that can poison cattle.

  • Disodium EDTA.

    Disodium EDTA breaks skin cells, inviting everything that touches the skin to be absorbed faster and in larger quantities.

  • Hydroquinone.

    A highly controversial skin care ingredient, Hydroquinone decreases the production of melanin by restraining the enzyme tyrosinase, the element in human bodies that produce melanin.

  • Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT).

    BHT has tumor promotion effects, and is commonly known to cause cancer. BHT also causes a variety of liver and kidney issues, and causes toxic effects in lung tissue.