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Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:33 pm  |
I just saw something about this on the news ... here's a link to a website that talks about it. That would be alot of products they would "ban". I've never found hydroquinone very effective for myself.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-skincream30aug30,0,3200100.story?coll=la-home-nation
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The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday proposed banning over-the-counter sales of skin-lightening products, triggering a four-month comment period likely to provoke strong protests from dermatologists and other skin experts.
Publishing the proposed rule in the Federal Register, the FDA said that the creams contained hydroquinone, a drug that, according to studies on rodents, showed "some evidence" of possibly causing cancer. |
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Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:49 pm |
| Good! Then some of us won't feel duty bound to keep warning new people about the negative effects of Hydroquinone. |
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Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:44 pm |
| yeah! It is good! Hydroquinone is so bad! |
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Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:37 pm |
Eyeow! I just posted on another thread earlier that I was using a product that contained HQ, with great results. In fact, I think I recommended it 
Thanks for the link Moonstarr. I didn't realize it was that serious. |
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Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:03 pm |
| I got serious hyperpigmentation using HQ. It took a very long time to get rid of. |
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Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:18 am |
How did you get serious hyperpigmentation? I know a girl here who did as well but this is because she was using this product and then NOT using sunscreen carefully enough. So she ended up with darker spots as a result.
Also, I've heard often here about how bad HQ is. For me it works very well. The studies conducted were on people of colour and those people often had used homemade preparations combined with HQ in high percentages WELL OVER the 4% that is prescribed by most doctors. It is ridiculous that people call it dangerous at 4% or less. My stepfather is a plastic surgeon and he used to prescribe it before they banned it here (I buy mine when I go to South America) and he still thinks that there is nothing wrong with it in proper doses though he is not allowed to dispense it anymore.
I know a lady here from Uganda and I asked her about HQ and skin bleaching and she said that it's very popular in Africa and that a lot of people that she knows or has read about mix it with other substances some of which contain Mercury! No wonder it causes black spots on them but instead of being told about the "other" substances we are told that it's only the HQ. In the article it says that it causes high levels of Mercury in the body, could that be because they are mixing it with Mercury? It also says that women in Africa and Asia use this for skin whitening whereas Causcasian women want this for the random sun spot and such. The African and Asian women probably use it more often as well, maybe a few times a day and in higher concentration which also changes the outcome. I think that this study is seriously flawed not to mention it was conducted on rats and not people. If HQ is used properly in concentrations of 4% or less and the directions are followed (and not mixed with other stuff as many in Africa and Asia do) I fail to see how this is bad. |
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