Market salesmen use powerful substances to mix skin-lightening creams - adapting them at the request of customers One woman, who had discoloured hands, insisted that a seller add a lightening ...

The agency has alerted health care providers to advise patients against using the creams. Skin-lightening creams may be used to whiten or lighten the skin, or remove freckles, acne, wrinkles ...

In this environment, the desire for lighter skin has fuelled a booming market of creams and combinations ... It calls for an interdisciplinary approach, one that draws on anthropology to trace ...

Vera Sidika and Bridget Achieng River Road is now the home illegal skin bleaching products A single tube of cream ... lighten my skin,” I say. “Quicker,” I answer. “Okay,” she says ...

Mercury is a neurotoxin used as a preservative in skin-lightening creams. It is commonly found in products generously applied to the skin, which increases the level of exposure, said Chris ...

The 32-year-old used skin ... 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 lightening agent ...