HOW TO USE WHITENING COSMETIC PRODUCTS WISELY!

We all have once used a whitening product before.

If you haven't it's either you don't know much about cosmetic or you are collecting money to buy one for the first time. Girls always want a flawless skin, especially yellow skin ladies out there either wants to be beautiful tanned or beautiful white. But yellow skin tan is not that pretty looking (Believe me I am yellow skin so I know for sure) so yellow skin tend to try to look more whiter or paler. To do that, Sun block is a must, good habit of eating, work outs, and of course, whitening products!

There are a lot of skin care products out in the Korean Cosmetic out there, when we call, "Functional Cosmetic" we tend to say products that has whitening, wrinkle care and sun block.

We will take a look at these three things and see what ingredients are important to look at when using a whitening product and how to use them wisely. I know some girls out there would buy by brand, but if you have been reading my post by now you know that brand names has nothing to do with the quality of the product, If you have been watching Get it Beauty Channels they do blind test, and you can see some cheap brands winning the top rank expensive brands on the bottom list. This is not always the case but we do see that often. Now we need to be bit more smarter when buying cosmetic. Buy not by brands but by INGREDIENTS.

For Ingredients for different type of skin type, 20 ingredients you should try to avoid 

<<HOW DOES WHITENING PRODUCTS WORK?>>

Overall whitening products is made to help whiten up the darkened parts of the skin caused by sun rays and reduce the producing of Melanin pigment inside the skin that cause to skin to look dark.

The effectiveness of whitening product is all depends on how the product effects the melanin pigments and how the product controls the pigments.

In order to control the melanin many whitening product uses effects below

1. Sun Block (click for more info)

Blocking sun rays is not only helps from wrinkles to form but also does important effect for whitening. Sun block absorb or reflect sun rays and stop the skin from created melanin pigments. 

2. Control Melanin Producing Signals

Melanin cells creates as it get certain signals from the environment. If more signals of these type gives to melanin cells the more melanin pigment will be created.

Whitening product control these signals and reduce melanin pigment produce.

3. Tyrosinase Activation Blockage

Tyrosinase is made by Tyrosin acidation and this cause big change in melanin pigment. Blocking Tyrosinase activation helps block melanin pigment to form

Right now Licorice extract, mulberry extract is the ingredietns that blocks tyrosinase activation.

4. Facilitate Peeling

Skin has it's cycle of peeling off the dead skin cells and bring out newly borned ones. But if this cycle isn't going through it's normal routine, it will cause your melanin pigment to compose this will make your skin look very dull and dark.

By peeling the skin helps the melanin to peel off together and cause your face too whiten up.

<<WHITENING COSMETIC MAIN INGREDIENTS>>

1. Drug Administration Accepted Ingredients

• Mulberry extract 
• Arbutin 
• Ethyl ether ascorbic 
• Licorice extract 
• Ascorbyl glucoside 
• Magnesium ascorbyl phosphate 
• Tetra-iso-ascorbyl palmitate 
• Asan age amide 
• Alpha-bisabolol

2. Other Ingredients

• Kojic Acid 
• AHA (Alpha Hydroxyl Acid)
• Linoleic acid

<<How to use Whitening Product the RIGHT Way>>

1. Ingredients that works as whitening ingredients but doesn't work together

• Vitamin A and Latino products 

Vitamin A is good for your skin and Latino products does whitening but they do not work together, it will irritate your skin

• Vitamin C and Peeling effect products 

Vitamin C is widely used for sensitive skin but using with peeling product will only irritate your skin too much.

2. Ingredients that works well together

• Vitamin E and Vitamin C

Vitamin E helps Vitamin C to soak better into the skin

3. Moisturizing is Important when using whitening Products

As I mention before peeling is also part of whitening effect and peeling can cause dryness on the skin, it's best to also use a moisturizing product together with whitening products.

4. How to Keep Whitening Product

Some whitening products has Vitamin C which can change under explosure to sun rays. So most whitening products are brown or not glass.

Even if it doesn't have Vitamin C it's best to put all cosmetic products away from direct sun light