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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A mother in northern Nigeria is visibly upset as she clutches her two-year-old child, who has burns and discoloured skin ... the cream to be mixed in front of them. I noticed that many bleaching ...