WELL DONE DRUM MAGAZINE!
In the last Learn and Teach magazine we asked magazines and newspapers to stop advertising skin lightening creams. Drum magazine was the first to agree. They will stop advertising skin lightening creams. Learn and Teach thanks Drum. We hope other magazines and newspapers will do the same.
TOP SKIN DOCTOR GIVES ANOTHER WARNING
Ban all skin lightening creams with hydroquinone – this message comes again from a top skin doctor in South Africa.
The skin doctor is Professor Findlay. He has warned people about skin lightening creams for many years. He gives his new warning in the latest American skin doctors’ magazine.
Professor Findlay says the law the Health Department made in 1980 is no good. (I n 1980 the Health Department said skin lightening creams must not have more than 2% hydroquinone). Professor Findlay says the law is no good because people will just use more skin lightening creams.
Another skin doctor told Learn and Teach, “I don’t know why the Health Department doesn’t listen to Professor Findlay. He is the best skin doctor in South Africa.”
SCIENTIST ALSO GIVES WARNING
“Skin lightening creams are dangerous. They damage peoples’ skins,” a scientist told Learn and Teach. The scientist works at a university in Pretoria.
The scientist did tests with skin lightening creams last year. She tested creams that have hydroquinone. Most skin lightening creams are made with hydroquinone.
The scientist rubbed skin lightening creams onto guinea pigs. She rubbed the creams onto the guinea pigs every 24 hours. She did not give the guinea pigs a lot of cream – she gave the same amount people use.
After two weeks the guinea pigs’s skins went hard. They got bleeding scabs. After six weeks their feet and noses turned black.
THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT MUST BAN SKIN LIGHTENING CREAMS!