So You Want Whiter Skin?
The wonders of whitening agent glutathione revealed. But is it for everyone?
I was born with dark skin. Ever since I was a kid, it always puzzled me why I wasn’t given the same fair complexion like my siblings when both our parents had relatively light skin tones. While my mom was also born brown-skinned, she somehow outgrew it in her teen years when her skin started lightening until it glowed a pale-yellow. Naturally, I hope the same thing would happen to me. I waited patiently until I was in highschool, but to my disappointment, I couldn’t put my “morena” days behind me as easily as my siblings did. It was then that I learned, with high hopes and crushed dreams, one of the most horrible truths I will ever come to …show more content…
To begin with, glutathione is a substance found naturally in our cells. It is a small protein produced by our body whose main purpose is to fight the effects of harmful chemicals in the environment.
Things like pollution, UV rays from sun exposure ( think of all the beach you have/had this summer/last summer) and chemicals used in processing food threaten the body and cause cell damage, especially when combined with smoking, alcohol binges, an unhealthy diet and everyday stress. Simply put, the more person is exposed to toxins, the more a person is exposed to toxins, the more he or she uses up his or her natural glutathione supply, hence the need for more.
Conventional glutathione comes in tablet,capsule or Intravenous (IV) form as a food supplement to regular diet. It protects the body by raising glutathione levels, which act as an antioxidant to neutralize free radicals , detoxify the body’s natural master oxidant because it can immediately “rescue” cell damage, plus help the body heal faster.
Consequently, some revolutionary product bombarded the whitening product industry. Last year, Luminous Glutathione Patch was launched in the market. An ambitious man by the name of Lewis Joseph developed a state-of-the-art, painless transdermal
The wonders of whitening agent glutathione revealed. But is it for everyone?
I was born with dark skin. Ever since I was a kid, it always puzzled me why I wasn’t given the same fair complexion like my siblings when both our parents had relatively light skin tones. While my mom was also born brown-skinned, she somehow outgrew it in her teen years when her skin started lightening until it glowed a pale-yellow. Naturally, I hope the same thing would happen to me. I waited patiently until I was in highschool, but to my disappointment, I couldn’t put my “morena” days behind me as easily as my siblings did. It was then that I learned, with high hopes and crushed dreams, one of the most horrible truths I will ever come to …show more content…
To begin with, glutathione is a substance found naturally in our cells. It is a small protein produced by our body whose main purpose is to fight the effects of harmful chemicals in the environment.
Things like pollution, UV rays from sun exposure ( think of all the beach you have/had this summer/last summer) and chemicals used in processing food threaten the body and cause cell damage, especially when combined with smoking, alcohol binges, an unhealthy diet and everyday stress. Simply put, the more person is exposed to toxins, the more a person is exposed to toxins, the more he or she uses up his or her natural glutathione supply, hence the need for more.
Conventional glutathione comes in tablet,capsule or Intravenous (IV) form as a food supplement to regular diet. It protects the body by raising glutathione levels, which act as an antioxidant to neutralize free radicals , detoxify the body’s natural master oxidant because it can immediately “rescue” cell damage, plus help the body heal faster.
Consequently, some revolutionary product bombarded the whitening product industry. Last year, Luminous Glutathione Patch was launched in the market. An ambitious man by the name of Lewis Joseph developed a state-of-the-art, painless transdermal