The government in Nigeria is warning about the health risks of skin lightening, where potent chemicals can thin and damage skin. It's a booming business in that country and others.

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

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD Skin bleaching is a method of lightening skin by using products that reduce melanin production, a pigment that makes skin dark. Skin bleaching typically ...

"Mercury poisoning from skin-whitening creams can be very serious, as it causes nervous system damage that can be permanent," Dr. Eric Lavonas, a toxicologist with Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug ...

They have created a booming global business in bleach creams and injectables valued at $8.6 billion in 2020; $2.3 billion was spent in the U.S. alone. The market is projected to reach $12.3 ...

Yeboah started using skin whitening creams at 14 years old. "I started lightening my skin because I thought, well, if I can alleviate one of the things that makes me have no privilege, ...

Blac Chyna partnering up with Africa's bleaching king and queen to create a new face bleaching cream is beyond problematic. It's really rubbing me the wrong way, ain't no way in hell she would do ...

However, the use of hazardous materials in bleaching creams, including corticosteroids, hydroquinone, and mercury, raises questions about safety and puts one's entire body at risk.. Skin bleaching ...

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Mercury in Skin Whitening Cream Linked to Woman's Vision Loss, Public Health Agency Says The Minnesota woman had also suffered from muscle weakness, insomnia and leg pain after her 'prolonged use ...

The first time Anderson used a skin whitening cream she was 12. Her stepmother gave it to her but didn't tell her what it was for. "She never explained it to me," she says.