In many parts of the world today there is a profitable market for products which lighten or whiten people’s skin.
Outline the reasons for using such products and discuss what effects they have in terms of health and society.
Today, in many countries, particularly places like Asia, more and more skincare products that make the skin become brighter gain in popularity, and provide huge profits for the companies involved in their sale. This essay will examine several possible reasons behind this trend and the effects this may have on people’s health and on society.
It can be conducive to understanding why there are more and more affordable skin products appearing on the market. The first principle reason is that today the perception of beauty standards has changed over the years due to the trend of appreciation among the youth. Therefore, consumers have a tendency to use products that make their skin become lighter. To give an example, consumers, especially teenagers have a desire for the “Western” look. As a result, they choose plastic surgery with the purpose of creating an attractive appearance, and certainly white skin is a part of this. Furthermore, the media plays an indispensable role in our daily life, thereby somehow having a negative impact on the cognition of consumers. It is apparent that ads related to physical appearance are frequently on air through various social media platforms, such as Facebook with posts, and TikTok with viral videos, showing people with white skin as more attractive and successful.
Having said that, we cannot deny that people have confidence in white skin, these items may bring detrimental effects on our health, and far beyond society. Regarding health, it is not hard to witness there is a plethora of skin-whitening products of unknown origin that appear on the competitive market with unbelievable prices. These ads grab the attention of public with the insurance of short-term effects. Consequently, their skin is being harmed permanently as some products bought over the counter have prescription-strength ingredients, even though fake products. For instance, some contain steroids or toxics may severely damage the skin and other parts of the body. In terms of society, in long run, such behavior perpetuates the belief that “white” is better than “dark” skin, and white residents will receive much more social benefits than others. Thus, those with darker skin may experience serious discrimination, and even worse gen Z can be suffered insult judgments, which may influence on their holistic development of them.
In conclusion, people who use whitening products, usually through social media, are portrayed as more desirable. However, steps should be taken to tackle this issue as the drawbacks of this are clear, with potential dangerous consequences for people’s future health and society as a whole.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, furthermore, however, if, look, may, regarding, so, therefore, thus, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 53.0 41.998997996 126% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2251.0 1615.20841683 139% => OK
No of words: 420.0 315.596192385 133% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35952380952 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52701905584 4.20363070211 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92212899587 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 249.0 176.041082164 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592857142857 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 683.1 506.74238477 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 5.43587174349 184% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 0.809619238477 741% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.864738451 49.4020404114 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.055555556 106.682146367 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3333333333 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.72222222222 7.06120827912 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.315058557838 0.244688304435 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0901355192016 0.084324248473 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0432983693272 0.0667982634062 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186325140629 0.151304729494 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0307404733667 0.056905535591 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.63 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 78.4519038076 164% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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