is there ANY way? i totally understand the capacity of this drug and how you will NEVER get pigment back but this is what i want. i am pretty pale anyway so i dont think ill get the "white streaks" that they warn about. how can i get any of these brands if i dont have vitiligo and cant get a presciption? help! this is the ultimate whitening product!!!!

membah

also, for monobenzone, do you need to apply it TO EVERY INCH OF SKIN??!?!? thats almost crazy, but possible. i would do it, but it would take SO long to apply it to every area of skin. do you start out applying it to some parts? lemme know thank you!

membah

can someone please help me? i just found a chinese site that sells 20% monobenzone cream and they said they can send me a sample of 20 grams!! you guys please help me! i am not a kid or immature or anything, but i dont have vitiligo so i dont really know about how to apply it or anything. can i first just start out applying it on my face at night or in the morning? another thing is i use a retinoid (tazorac, its like retin-a) at night, will this affect the monobenzone? also, if i have red marks from past acne, will this help fade them or will this make them permanent? what about freckles? thank you, and sorry for all the questions!

Skinwhite

You should try the vitiligosupport forum for answers to monobenzone. It is for those with conditions of vitiligo, but there is a lot of information there on monobenzone and it's effects and results. It would be difficult for you to buy it without a prescription in the US.

Platinum Kellie

Hey there - I'm new to this forum. I'm also interested in anyone's experiences with monobenzone. I'm 70% albino. I'm lucky in the fact I do have some pigment (I have green eyes) and my hair is platinum blonde.

The downfall for me is that I do still have some pigment in my skin, that is not evenly spread - I have leopard patches. For most of my life, they were really light & self tanner camoflauged it. But for some reason this summer, newer patches showed up on my arms & lower extremeties of my legs & it's driving me nuts!

I met with my dermatologist & he thinks monobenzone is a good solution for me because I don't have any pigment on my skin other than these stupid patches, so I might as well get rid of them.

Anyone have any experiences with monobenzone to share? I just started using hydroquinone to see what that will do for me, but I think I want to go the aggresive route & just eradicate pigment all together.

Vahid

Ive wanted to change my skin colour all my life. But Im having second thoughts on it now. I have a nice colour, its a deep tan. Some people pay for my colour... so why do I wanna change it? I don't know.. maybe it's because I wanted to de-ethnicise myself.. but not sure any more.

Vahid

Just to let you all know that, the mon sinks into your skin and works from a deeper level.. thus it doesn't matter if the spread isnt 100% equal. Ive been using it for 3 days already.

lovie1

hey keep us posted on your monobenzone use

Vahid

I will sweety. Im also using the glutathione pills and soap.. so maybe that will excellerate the process?

Emily Jordan

This is for Vahid and all you other vain people out there thinking about using Benoquin, even if you do not need it.

I have used this drug from the minute it became available and it has been the right choice for me.

BUT and a very big but is that this should not be used by people who do not need it. I started having Vitiligo at 11. It may have stayed as a little white patch on my eyelids and may be I would have some white "moles" here and there if it was left alone. However, my parents were very diligent in trying to get the best trestments for me which meant using any god forbidden junk, from the most advanced pills recommended by the doctors to applying nathropathic creams no short of witchcraft.
One particular treatment required me to take some (now illegal and off the market) pills which would sensitize me to the ultra viloet rays of the sun and then I had to spend up to an hour under the sun or under special tanning lapms during the winter. One day I fell sleep and spent 15 minutes extra under the sun: I developed third degree burns on my arms and most of my face. When the burns cleared I never got the colour back. Any trauma to the skin rubs it of its colour and the patches will then spread.

By the time Benoquin was developed I had milky patches on over 70% of my body. I was 19. The use of benoquin helped me get my face back, not having to use heavy creams or cringe every time I saw a picture of myself.

BUT the use of Benoquin is not for every one: specailly for people who have normal skin and want to lighten it. First of all why lighten your skin, it does not change who you are. You can not de-ethnicize yourself, like Vahid. You will be Vahid, white or brown or black or red. If you do not like your self with this colour, you will not like yourself with white face as well. Furthermore, doesn't this feed into the stereotype of the "White" race being the dominant race, being the measure of beauty?

Have you guys considered the downside?

I use the highest SPF sunscreen and still burn. I love the sun and swimming, I go to the tropics twice a year and I am the only one by the pool who will be wearing a large hat, sunproof shirt over my bathing suit and towels draped over my legs if I have to sit by the pool more than 5 minutes. And you know what I can still burn: in stupid place like the back of your knee when it hurts like hell to even sit bending your leg. How about having to use sunscreen year-round? I can burn in the cloudy weather worse than in the sun! Attractive huh???

I was in Alaska in Sep 07. On a rare sunny day, I was swimming in the cruise ship's covered pool when they opened the top. I did not even feel the sun on my body but the next day I developed fine freckle like pigmentation all over my hands and arms, on my chest and one large one under one eye. I live in Canada and in the past few years you could get Benoquin without prescription. My dermatologist told me to use Benoquin again. I used up a half tube I had left but when I tried to buy new ones, I was told it was discontinued, Possibly due to mis-use by "skin-lighteners". My doctor has prescribed Lustra-AF. This is the correct cream to use if you are trying to lighten your skin a little and get rid of some spots. I still have not been able to get rid of my "Freckles".

Also be aware that any burnt part of skin that develops the pigment again is usually darker than your normal skin and is very resistant to lightening again, even with Benoquin.

Also use of beoquin may mean that you may get patches of white hair in the middle of your eye brow, lashes, hair, or even body hair for men. How would you like to have white chest and pubic hair to match that fair skin??? Not very sexy.

Most important of all the risk of skin cancer is quite serious. Understand this: YOU HAVE NO PROTECTION IN YOUR SKIN. Fair people have colour and melatonin, just less of it. Albinos and people with vitiligo have none.

Why would you want to reproduce a disease is beyond me.

Do not do this if you do not have to. I love this drug. It was my life saver. But I would gladly do anything to reverse the clock and to get my natural colour back. Sadly I do not even know what it is not to have Vitiligo. I have had it for 28 years and my non-colour complexion is a part of who I am. It is a part of the story of my life. It does not have to be a part of yours. It does not have to define who you are.

Like yourself as you are. If you do not like your self in the skin you are in, how can you like yourself in any other colour? After all it IS only skin deep. Self reliance is the most attractive trait. It trumps every physical characteristic. Try to get some of that and nothing else will matter.