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While many Americans often long for the perfect tan, a popular desire in Asia for many women and men is fair skin. Current skin-whitening products often contain mercury and the chemical ...

Skin ‘whitening’ risks: why you shouldn’t use lightening creams and what you can try instead Skin lightening creams often contain mercury, which can damage the kidneys, brain and nervous ...

Skin-whitening is multibillion-dollar industry that targets women around the globe. Adawe says the practice is especially high in countries where regulations on toxic products are weak or ...

Researchers analyzed over 100 popular skin-lightening or so-called “whitening” products sold on platforms such as Amazon and eBay for mercury. They found that almost half of these cosmetics ...

A woman's skin has turned a bizarre blue-brown color after using skin-lightening cream. This condition, known as exogenous ochronosis, had been affecting the 55-year-old patient for a year before ...

Skin whitening is somewhat controversial. “In the East and older cultures, they ultimately [believed] the stigma or idea that… people who come from a high class do not have to work in the ...

Urgent health warning issued over skin-lightening beauty drip treatments More than 300 beauty salons and clinics offer these drips, with the majority not run by doctors or nurses Storm Newton ...

Further testing by the California Department of Public Health indicated that the skin-whitening cream had been contaminated with methylmercury iodide; methylmercury was confirmed by the CDC. Many ...

The National Medicine Products Administration banned the unapproved sale of cosmetics with Phenylethyl Resorcinol — commonly known as SymWhite 377 and a patented ... The sale of skin whitening ...

Known as skin whitening or brightening drips, the treatments contain the antioxidant glutathione, which has skin-lightening effects. Glutathione used in this way is not a licensed medicine, ...