A woman was fired from her job after her bleached skin made customers uncomfortable. Her employer made this known on Twitter.
She said guests didn’t feel comfortable being served by the staff whose dark knuckles made her look dirty.
Management suggested gloves but the staff refused. She also refused to be moved to another department where she wouldn’t interact with guests.
As a result, she was fired from her job today.
“I am not against bleaching your skin but just do it right,” the Twitter user who shared the story wrote, adding that her company does not discriminate against staff with medical conditions of any sort.
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A study revealed that women engage in skin lightening because light skin is associated with higher status, privilege, and beauty, thus, women feel the need to bleach their skin to look beautiful and attract high status mates.
Skin bleaching—aka the act of using substances, mixtures, or treatments to physically lighten one’s skin tone has been around for a long time, and it’s developed into a billion-dollar international industry.
Skin bleaching products are popular in my country because the notion is that lighter skin is beautiful.
In 2006, a new study by Missouri School of Journalism researcher Cynthia Frisby found that people perceive a light brown skin tone to be more physically attractive than a pale or dark skin tone.
A person who has been bleaching has a dull and dry looking skin texture. This is how you can tell if someone is bleaching.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 77% of women in Nigeria use skin lightening products, the world’s highest percentage.
Skin bleaching refers to the use of products to lighten dark areas of the skin or achieve an overall lighter complexion.
These products include bleaching creams, soaps, and pills, as well as professional treatments like chemical peels and laser therapy. There is no health benefit to skin bleaching.
Too much chlorine in your bloodstream can be toxic. It’s also possible to have an allergic reaction to bleach on your skin. Both chlorine toxicity and bleach allergies can lead to burns on your skin.
Bleach can cause permanent damage to the nerves and tissue in your eyes. This is why bleaching is bad for your skin.
Skin whitening practices have been documented in ancient Greece and Rome. Bleaching cosmetics often incorporated white lead carbonate and mercury as lightening agents.
These products were ultimately known to cause skin erosion. Skin whitening was frequently documented during the Elizabethan era.
