It’s 2025, and the obsession with achieving lighter skin is thriving more than ever. Light skin was and is still glorified, seen as a higher standard of beauty and socio-economic status, while darker ...

However, the use of hazardous materials in bleaching creams, including corticosteroids, hydroquinone, and mercury, raises questions about safety and puts one's entire body at risk. Skin bleaching is ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has explained why it is not taking the option of banning the importation of bleaching cream was to avoid creating new business ...

Many bleaching creams contain harmful chemicals like steroids, which can lead to skin thinning and other long-term health issues. [Courtesy] Every time Caroline* (not her real name) looked in the ...

South Africans noticed a viral TikTok of an American woman casually discussing popular SA bleaching creams The clip gained strong traction as locals shared jokes and concerns about the long-standing ...

Skin bleaching, once widely condemned and pushed into the shadows in Ghana, is making a quiet but noticeable comeback; this time in more sophisticated and less obvious forms. While the era of visibly ...

Can a person go blind from using bleaching creams? Skin lightening and whitening are sometimes used synonymously and refer to bleaching the skin, a treatment that makes the skin's complexion lighter.