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 she ...

When Nina Davuluri was crowned Miss America, becoming the first Indian Miss America, not everyone was celebrating her barrier-breaking win. In India, where Davuluri's family emigrated from, her ...

It’s 2022 and people are ordering skin whitening creams and slathering them on their faces and bodies, perpetuating white supremacy and the Eurocentric ideals of beauty. These products are physically ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A Sacramento woman suffers permanent injuries and is unable to speak or care for herself after using a skin-lightening cream. The 47-year-old has the first case of mercury ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Here’s something that you should not take lightly: skin-lightening creams. Such creams can contain mercury, and the results of ...

A skin-lightening cream from Mexico has been found to have had a devastating effect on the central nervous system due to its highly toxic mercury levels, according to a UC San Francisco-led report on ...

After regularly using a skin lightening cream manufactured in Mexico, a California woman was hospitalized, relying on tubal feeding and being unable to speak or care for herself. The U.S. Centers for ...

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are fending off backlash for a partnership they engaged in with a beauty care line that peddles skin-whitening creams – which many have raised their eyebrows at ...

The Indian subsidiary of the consumer products conglomerate Unilever is changing the name of its skin lightening cream Fair & Lovely following years of criticism. Fair & Lovely cream package and tube ...

Unilever PLCUL0.70%increase; green up pointing triangle is facing fresh backlash against a skin-lightening cream that is one of its better-selling products, as scrutiny mounts for brands that some say ...

A Sacramento woman was poisoned by a skin-lightening cream, rendering her comatose. Hers was the first case of methylmercury poisoning linked to a skin cream in the US, the Centers for Disease Control ...