{"id":37867,"date":"2015-07-13T22:23:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T16:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/?p=37867"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:19:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:49:07","slug":"fairness-creams-a-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/fairness-creams-a-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"FAIRNESS CREAMS and how dark is beautiful in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/FAIRNESS-CREAMS-A-MYTH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38101\" src=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/FAIRNESS-CREAMS-A-MYTH.jpg\" alt=\"FAIRNESS CREAMS-A MYTH\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People in India are so fascinated by white skin that they feel inadequate about themselves if they don\u2019t use some fairness cream. Don\u2019t you think that if your confident depends on a beauty cream, then you should really check your entire confidence section? The funny thing is that fairness cream ads show that if you don\u2019t use their product, then you won\u2019t be able to become a star or an air hostess\u2026.and you won\u2019t probably get married. These ads make us want to believe that bb creams are our new fairy godmothers. The companies should ask themselves, \u201cDo we really need to sell dreams to consumers and earn money? Do we really need to demean the dusky Indian skin?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I am proud of actor Nandita Das who started the \u201cDark is beautiful\u201d campaign. She has also been referred to as a brown actress by many renowned journalists. What a shame! I do not blame other actors for endorsing fairness brands but I think they should stop doing so as these creams give a fooling message to all. We should not believe these discriminating and racist acts. We all are very well educated to understand that no cream is magic that can change your natural skin tone.<\/p>\n<p>For your scientific knowledge, these creams have bleaching ingredients that may irritate sensitive skin and many of them contain steroids also which are being used in these creams without any dermatologist\u2019s permission. In 2006, the Indian association of dermatologists, venereologists and leprologists filed a petition to stop this menace. But the market is still flooded with these creams.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just a simple question I want to ask \u2013Is white skin really worth all the fuss and heartache? I truly feel that it\u2019s very insulting for the beautiful Indian skin that such racists creams, companies and ads have not been banned all this while.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/Life-Skills\">Click here for government certification in Life Skills<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in India are so fascinated by white skin that they feel inadequate about themselves if they don\u2019t use some fairness cream. Don\u2019t you think that if your confident depends on a beauty cream, then you should really check your entire confidence section? The funny thing is that fairness cream ads show that if you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1302,"featured_media":38101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1531],"tags":[5252,5251],"class_list":["post-37867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-skills","tag-dusty-indian-skin","tag-fairness-creams"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FAIRNESS CREAMS and how dark is beautiful in India - Vskills Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Do fairness creams really work ? Apply for a vskills certification in Life Skills now. 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