Explore the societal pressures driving individuals to alter their skin tone through dangerous practices like bleaching and ...

"Illegal bleaching creams and soaps are a major problem," Bouch says. "And once we eradicate it from Brixton, it will go to another borough where there's a big Asian or Black population." ...

Rwanda has become the latest in a string of African countries to ban skin bleaching products, but Global Industry Analysts predict that the skin lightening industry will reach $31.2 billion by ...

Viral discourse around skin bleaching has ensued on TikTok. Consumers have been discussing everything from promoting hydroquinone in facials to bleaching creams turning the skin yellow. Black ...

From laser hair removal to skin bleaching, we asked an expert to set the record straight when it comes to some of the biggest misconceptions about black skin. Dija Ayodele is an aesthetician.

Skin-lightening is a multi-billion-dollar industry and impacts many women, and men, around the world. Within the African context, women in Nigeria use skin-whitening products the most: according to ...

But what you probably didn't know until earlier this week is that Nivea also sells skin-lightening cream to consumers ... went viral this week after black London-based entrepreneur William Adoasi ...

Then, after a year, I started getting black spots on my bleached skin. My feet began swelling, and the doctor told me that my kidneys had been affected by the bleaching,” she narrates.