The agency has alerted health care providers to advise patients against using the creams. Skin-lightening creams may be used to whiten or lighten the skin, or remove freckles, acne, wrinkles ...

Billboards in the city of Kano, Nigeria, advertise skin bleaching products. The government has this year issued warnings about the potential harmful effects of these creams. Zainab Bashir Yau ...

Vera Sidika and Bridget Achieng River Road is now the home illegal skin bleaching products A single tube of cream cost her Sh6,000 Majority of backstreet skin lightening products are dangerous and ...

Mercury is a neurotoxin used as a preservative in skin-lightening creams. It is commonly found in products generously applied to the skin, which increases the level of exposure, said Chris ...

I also witnessed teenage girls buying bleaching creams for themselves and in bulk so that they could sell them to their peers. Market salesmen use powerful substances to mix skin-lightening creams ...

The skin often heals with a more even tone afterward. Prescription-lightening cream works by bleaching the skin. These involve a topical lightening agent, such as hydroquinone. Prescription ...

Billboards in the city of Kano, Nigeria, advertise skin bleaching products. The government has this year issued warnings about the potential harmful effects of these creams. Zainab Bashir Yau, a ...

I also witnessed teenage girls buying bleaching creams for themselves and in bulk so that they could sell them to their peers. Market salesmen use powerful substances to mix skin-lightening creams ...

Image caption, Fatima's toddler still has sores on his face from skin-lightening products that are taking time to heal The approved dosage of kojic acid in creams in Nigeria is 1%, according to ...