Skin care for black skin

[Pennies]

This is not a beauty question but can anyone tell me why a black person (specifically children) may need any special lotions. There is a reference to this in a course I'm doing an essay on at the moment as part of basic care routines for young children and I don't understand what it means.

I'm not aware that they do.

What on earth is this essay that you're writing?

I thought that too - I've never heard of or experienced anything like it unless for specific medical reasons that I can't imagine would be race specific. But I am a) not black and b) not medical so I thought someone on here might know.

It's on child health and nutrition for a course I'm doing to become a nursery teacher. I don't rate the course much at all TBH, but it must be done to get the qualification.

I'm concerned about the content of your course too! What is the background of the persons setting your essays and giving you reference material?

Black skin and hair tends to be drier, so more moisture-rich products are a good idea. That's a generalisation, though. Everyone's different.

p.s. if you are doing a hair 7 beauty course I think it's a perfectly valid question. Caring for afro hair, for instance, is quite different to caring for European hair.

Emma1977 - I haven't a clue. It's all correspondence. I do know that my tutor is also marking students who are taking a counselling course (he sent me back someone else's results instead of mine) so it all seems rather worryingly flakey but Ofsted have OK'd the whole thing and I'm plodding on.

Oh, didn't get that it wasn't beauty related. How odd.