Using skin lightening products can be dangerous without a doctor's supervision because they may contain harmful ingredients. Still, nearly a quarter of people in a recent survey said they used the ...

Skin lightening products can be dangerous for consumers when they contain harmful ingredients that are illegal for over-the-counter sales, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned.

Apart from the problematic messaging the skin cream companies sell to young girls with darker shades of skin there’s another ...

Skin-lightening products containing topical steroids and dangerous ingredients, such as mercury, may also be available for purchase online and promoted on social media sites such as Instagram and ...

Although whitening skincare products aren’t as readily available in the West as they are in the East, there are still sneaky skincare ingredients that bleach the skin. If these products are used ...

Researchers from Northwestern University anonymously surveyed 455 people who said they were Black, Asian, Hispanic, Native or multiracial, and asked them about their use of skin-lightening products.

Toxic skin whitening ingredients. Skin whitening products often contain ingredients that are toxic when used cosmetically for long durations and without medical guidance as they have the ability ...

Hydroquinone is another skin-lightening ingredient that can lighten your overall skin tone. Dr. Imahiyerobo-Ip calls ... "The best way to determine the potency of a skin-care product is to look at ...

By Meera Senthilingam, Pallabi Munsi and Vanessa Offiong, CNN Skin whitening is the use of cosmetic products or services to reduce the amount of melanin, or pigment, in the skin to make it appear ...

Skin whitening is the use of cosmetic products or services to reduce the amount of melanin, or pigment, in the skin to make it appear lighter. It's a big industry and predominantly targets women ...