Even before the best products for hyperpigmentation came to light, the skin care industry has gone hard on the disappearing ...

Her family and friends are worried about her future. But then, she hits upon a tube of magic cream that changes her life — a “fairness cream,” with skin lightening properties. A month later, she’s a ...

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High-Dose Hydroquinone – Overuse can lead to ochronosis, where skin turns a bluish-black colour instead of lighter. Corticosteroids – When misused in bleaching creams, steroids cause skin ...

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 ...

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 ...

A mother in northern Nigeria is visibly upset as she clutches her two-year-old child, who has burns and discoloured skin on his face ... ingredients and ask for the cream to be mixed in front of them.

So what does this have to do with your bleaching cream? Everything. Fair skin in Nigeria is associated with beauty, wealth, and desirability, so much so that there’s an entire industry of ...