Bleaching Cosmetics Harmful to Body- NAFDAC
By Idris Umar.
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians against too much use of bleaching cosmetics, saying it could lead to skin cancer.
In a statement signed by the agency’s media consultant, Mr. Olusayo Akintola, and made available to newsmen on Sunday in Abuja.
The statement disclosed that the Director General of the agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, gave the admonition over the weekend at the brainstorming session of a two-day top management meeting of the agency in Lagos.
Adeyeye said that an abusive use of cosmetics could even lead to internal damage of body organs as well as cause death.
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The Director expressed shock at the proliferation of beauticians engaged in the formulation of unauthorized chemicals with the intention of applying them to their unsuspecting clients.
According to the NAFDAC boss, majority of SPA outlets if not all in the nation’s cosmopolitan cities are culpable of the unhealthy practice of mixing chemicals and natural products like pawpaw, carrot and others to make creams, for the clients’ use.
Adeyeye said that the formulation was thereafter packaged, labeled, and sold online to clients, adding that SPA owners have gone further to influence some clinics with medical doctors joining to carry out these nefarious activities.
She also said that the practice had advanced to the extent that vitamin C infusion and glutathione was injected into the Substances and applied on clients.
She explained further that the challenges in the enforcement of the agency’s safety regulations on bleaching agents, SPAs and other beauty parlors was that the products were prepared.
