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 ...

One woman, who had discoloured hands, insisted that a seller add a lightening agent to a cream that was being mixed for her children, even though it was a regulated substance for adults and ...

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 and legs. The 32-year-old used skin-whitening products on all ...

I also witnessed teenage girls buying bleaching creams for themselves and in bulk so that they could sell them to their peers. One woman, who had discoloured hands, insisted that a seller add a ...

Another was left with darker skin than before - with a pale circle around her eyes, while a third has whitish scars on her lips and knees. Her toddler still has weeping wounds - his skin is taking ...

The government in Nigeria is warning about the health risks of skin lightening, where potent chemicals can thin and damage ...

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“It [also] contains paracress extract to help reduce the appearance of platysmal banding,” explains board-certified plastic surgeon Jennifer Levine, M.D., who cites the neck cream as her all ...

At the ripe age of 11, I decided to use the old, crusty, hair removal cream that had sat abandoned in my mum's cabinet since before I was born. Unsurprisingly, it severely burned, itched and ...