To elevate one’s social standing, many women started using the skin lightening creams. This practice is more prevalent in developing countries like Senegal, India and the Philipines. The study undertaken by the sociologists had confirmed the fact that there is a strong relationship between skin color and the socio economic status for the study conducted among the African-Americans and also Latinos.

But the side-effects due to the usage of the cream is also observed on an increasing manner. The various steroids in the skin lightening cream is found to affect the users heavily. It is found that the creams containing the Mercury also lead to some side-effects and the Dermatologists report more and more people coming for treatment for the side affects.

It is also confirmed in various studies that the continuous usage of the whitening cream with the steroids ends the person with hypertension, increased level of sugar apart from the suppression of the natural steroids in the body.

In various other creams the presence of the hydro-quinone is also lead to various side-effects like blue -black darkening of the skin termed as “exogenous ochronosis”. In short, anything against the nature is devastating and the usage of the skin whitening and lightening cream is not an exception.