Bleaching Skin in Mali

The article I read was about women bleaching their skin in Mali. When women would bleach themselves they would not look good. In a way they looked pallid because it wasn't their real color. A lot of these products came from The United States, Nigeria, Morocco, or Saudi Arabia. These products can cause cancer and many other diseases. It's funny to me that they would do all these horrible things to themselves and still feel ebullient. Another reason for them doing this is because the women from Mali thought that men preferred light skinned women than dark skinned women. This article also talked about there being more than 100 products to bleach your skin. I think that bleached skin is not salubrious at all. I believe that bleaching your skin is a salacious act. If I were to bleach my skin i don't think that I would feel jovial afterwards.