skin whitening
How The Black Lives Matter Movement is Impacting India’s Obsession With Light Skin
In a country where people spend more on skin-whitening creams than on tea, cosmetics companies are scrambling to move with the times.
Asians Continue to Use Skin Whitening Products Despite Their Toxic Levels of Mercury
Whitening creams are popular across Asia, where light skin is generally perceived as more beautiful.
Blac Chyna's Skin-Whitening Products Are a Window into an American Secret
Her co-sign of a bleaching product forces us to reckon with a problem too often shrouded in secrecy and denial.
Millions of People Are Still Risking Their Health for Lighter Skin
It's a cultural obsession—one that's becoming dangerous.
Counterfeit Skin-Whitening Creams Are Ruining People's Faces
A raid in Cambodia revealed 70 tons of fake cosmetics, some with terrifying side effects.
This Ad for Thai Skin-Whitening Pills Promises 'Whiteness Makes You Win'
There's also some blackface, just to drive the point home.
Toxic Whiteness: Ivory Coast Has Banned Skin-Whitening Creams
Despite their popularity, many of these skin-whitening creams contain stuff that can kill you.
Rich Kenyans Are Injecting Themselves with Black Market Creams to Become White
The popularity of skin-bleaching injections has rocketed over the last 18 months. The trade in black market creams and injections is completely unregulated. There is no way of knowing just how dangerous they are.