At what stage is your skin?

Hello family, please let's all check this scale (of bananas)portraying the different stages of our skin from 1 to 15.
The bananas show the various skins or better still stages of our skin.
From level 1 to level 6 atmost you have a very uniform and fresh skin but then from 7 upwards, some skin starts portraying some adverse effects which may range from dark spots, redness, skin ageing, stretch marks,skin cancer and many others. 
These skin problems may have different sources depending on each and every individual. However, the choice of your skin care products also have a great role to play.
Note that most but not all of the cosmetics you find in our local markets ranging from make up, body lotions,serums, shampoos, hand creams etc are filled with chemicals that most often are above, below the required quantities or a times even absent..
Some of these chemicals include parabens, hydro quinine, lead,mercury, and so many others.
Melanin is the main substance responsible for our black skin colour. The variation of skin color among individuals is mostly because of variation of the content of melanin in the skin, although other factors like the amount of blood in blood vessels, skin thickness and others may set in.
   
Skin bleaching for example, implies suppressing the level of melanin in the system. The most used chemical used for this purpose is hydro quinone.

Hydro quinone can damage the skin and cause more darkening as witnessed from stage 7 to 15. That is if used for too long or in too high concentrations. The wrong dose of this chemical results in skin redness, burning, stinging, skin dryness, cracking, blisters,black discoloration of the skin, and many others.

Fortunately for you and I, we can stay forever young, smooth, fresh, and with a sweet scented skin with your own home made natural skin care products such as coconut oil, avocado oil, cocoa butter, Shea butter and many others you will get to discover on my blog very soon.

With this, I assure you of not finding yourself out of our natural scale from 1 to 6.

I will be coming back with more details on skin bleaching and hydroquinone.

Hit the comment box and let's discuss on your own stage

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