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.

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 ...

Eiman Mirghani, a Sudanese Egyptian filmmaker, explores anti-Blackness in the Arab world and her own trauma with skin bleaching in "The Bleaching Syndrome" documentary.