Skin Whitening & Bleaching

Being part of Asia and South-East Asia, Malaysia is blessed with a vast multi-racial group of citizens, mainly Malays, Chinese, Indians, and other indigenous ethnicities like Kadazan, Dusun, Iban, Murut, Sungai, Suluk, Bajau etc. Historically, our ancestors came from various roots and places from all over the globe. Our ethnicity was a chaotic mixture of Asians and many other races from non-Asian continents such as Africa, America and Australia. Due to that genetic and DNA reasons, today we have an extensive range of skin tones, from palest hues to the darkest browns. We embrace that we are all beautiful in our own skin colors. However, since hundreds of years ago, some cultures engaged light skin with higher status, privileges and beauty. In some other cultures, lighter skin did not only associate with beauty, but it will also bring you to better opportunities and luck for employment, marriage and social standing. Therefore, people mostly women who have darker skin color feel the excessive urge to bleach their skin to look more beautiful, attract high-status mates and be acceptable in the “white-light-skin” society.

Nowadays, there are thousands kind of makeup products, skin care items, and cosmetics available on market for Malaysian women to make their skin glow and radiant. Frequently, these products contain some lightening agents such as Vitamin C, niacinamide, kojic acid and arbutin. Nevertheless, for women who want their skin color to be much lighter or we call it “whiter”, those products are considered insufficient. Thus, they require a more active and faster-result treatments for skin lightening. At Zeyls, we provide our patients with these well-proven treatments:

Chemical peel
Laser injections
Microdermabrasion
. Skin booster injections
Stem-cell injections
Whitening cream and some medications

Despite giving the lightening and brightening effects that our patients want; these procedures also have some disadvantages. Firstly, it can only work at some skin areas. Secondly, it can only even the existing skin tone, not whiten the whole skin up. Meanwhile, some other spa and clinics offer a more invasive treatment like injections high in whitening agents (i.e. glutathione). But patients should be well-informed and responsible about the risk they have to take and possible long term bad side effects of it because prohibiting too much of melanin can result in skin cancer in the future.

To sum up, skin lightening to make skin tone more even is acceptably normal. We understand how even skin tone can boost one’s self-esteem and confidence, wonderfully. But if one person wants to undergo any skin whitening and bleaching treatments for the sake of having a completely whiter skin or desired paler skin, just for fun or just to please others, we strongly disagree with that idea. Because being white in color, being happier for some impermanent moments, but later having skin cancer is the last thing we want to happen to our patients, or anyone in this world.

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