People with darker skin wants to have fairer skin. People with white skin wishes to have darker skin. Why is that? Maybe, in a predominantly white country, some people would want to be different from the ordinary. That's why, they tan themselves. If the whites go gaga with tanning products and services, the darker ones go gaga with whitening products and procedures.
In countries where there is less sun, people have fairer skin because they need to absorb enough Vitamin D from the sun. In countries where there is too much sun, people have darker skin in order to block the harmful effect of over-exposure to the sun. In countries where there is just enough sun, people have brown skin. Nature designed it that way.
In the Philippines, ancestors have passed from generations to generations the mentality that women (and men too) of whiter (or fairer skin called mestizos and mestizas) skin are prettier. In its history, the morenos (brown or copper skinned) were called slaves, called Indios, of the Spaniards, called the Insulares, who ruled the Philippines for centuries. For that reason, there is that self-psychology within some Filipinos who rejected its own color, and wished to be identified with the Insulares.
Nowadays, while the Europeans and Americans appreciate the exotic beauty, the (some) Filipino men and women continue to wish for that mestizo-mestiza look. (In the Philippines, though mestizo/mestiza means mixed race, it mostly refers to those with whiter or fairer skin).
No wonder why when glutathione hit the market advertised as a skin whitener, a lot of Filipino women (and men alike) flocked the drug stores. BFAD (Bureau of Food and Drugs) later prohibited the selling of glutathione being marketed as a skin whitener.
What is glutathione, anyway?
In countries where there is less sun, people have fairer skin because they need to absorb enough Vitamin D from the sun. In countries where there is too much sun, people have darker skin in order to block the harmful effect of over-exposure to the sun. In countries where there is just enough sun, people have brown skin. Nature designed it that way.
In the Philippines, ancestors have passed from generations to generations the mentality that women (and men too) of whiter (or fairer skin called mestizos and mestizas) skin are prettier. In its history, the morenos (brown or copper skinned) were called slaves, called Indios, of the Spaniards, called the Insulares, who ruled the Philippines for centuries. For that reason, there is that self-psychology within some Filipinos who rejected its own color, and wished to be identified with the Insulares.
Nowadays, while the Europeans and Americans appreciate the exotic beauty, the (some) Filipino men and women continue to wish for that mestizo-mestiza look. (In the Philippines, though mestizo/mestiza means mixed race, it mostly refers to those with whiter or fairer skin).
No wonder why when glutathione hit the market advertised as a skin whitener, a lot of Filipino women (and men alike) flocked the drug stores. BFAD (Bureau of Food and Drugs) later prohibited the selling of glutathione being marketed as a skin whitener.
What is glutathione, anyway?
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