Whitening soaps, usually best works for girls who already have fair skin but is frequently exposed to sunlight, so if your morena/tan dont expect for the whitening soaps to do all the work and wonders. And most of the time it takes months or even years for the whitening soap to lighten your skin color.
A friend of mine shared a very nice way to lighten your skin, I was worrying about my dark knees that time and she suggested this trick. She told me to use a bleaching powder, there's only one brand I really trust and its name is Etta's. Last time I check in the market it only cost Php 170.00 for the powder and around Php 25.00 for the liquid solution.
Steps on how to use it:
1) Mix the powder and the solution until it looks like a melted ice cream, ideally not too thick... not too much liquid solution either.
2) Spread it on the area that you would like to lighten, you can use it on your face, underarm,knees...well technically whole body, but before you apply it on your skin, try it on at least your hands or small part of your arms just to check if your allergic to it or not.
3) After applying it, wait for it to dry up. Completely dry up, usually takes about 20 mins. You can say its completely dried up if u feel your skin tightening and it turns out looking like a powder-y texture.
4) Rinse it off, ideally with warm water and make sure to carefully rinse it off as its hard to get rid. I recommend that you use a body sponge/loofa/small towel to help you make sure that whitening solution will be completely rinsed off.
5) Use whitening soap for more effective result.It's also a must to use a whitening lotion. I recommend a kojic soap ,i think its called KOJIC .SAN ( usually cost php50.00 @ sm supermarkets/watson, the one with the geisha lookin girl on the box) or likas papaya for those with sensitive skin as kojic is a strong soap and may just irritate your skin. For lotion I highly recommend NIVEA whitening with berry extract and licorice for frequent sun exposure.
6)Lastly, to get great results you need to do the process for 7 consecutive days and avoid sun at all cost, as base from my observation,if your undergoing this treatment and you exposed yourself to sun, your skin will darken twice as much.
7) Also a heads up, as a result of the bleaching process your body hairs like the one on your arms will turn into blond cause of the liquid solution.And be careful with buying ETTAs and likas papaya, there are imitation, I recommend that you buy from PCX or Mercury Drugstores.
The Etta's looks like this:
You can do this bleaching thing whenever you feel like you need it. There are more benefits that you will get by avoiding sun rather than being exposed to it. As sun promotes premature wrinkles/aging and may cause skin cancer ( if you're always overexposed).
That's about it for now... more beauty tips and everything else that every girl ought to know ;)
Xoxoxo,
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