For decades, the cosmetics industry in India has made millions selling skin-whitening products to women. Now, it's making more money by convincing Indian men that they should be lighter. Industry ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Karmel Square is a hub of the Somali community here, a colorful, cheerfully noisy hodgepodge of vendors and restaurants unofficially known as the Somali Mall. Amira Adawe stops by often ...

You might know Priyanka Chopra best for her leading role in “Quantico,” but before she became a household name, the actress admits she took an acting gig early in her career she isn’t proud of. In a ...

Skin lightening products can be dangerous for consumers when they contain harmful ingredients that are illegal for over-the-counter sales, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned. The potentially ...

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 ...

Blac Chyna is raising eyebrows after reports surfaced that she’s gearing up to release her own line of skin-lightening cream. According to TMZ, the former reality star turned aspiring rapper has ...

An investigation into skin-lightening products sold online found mercury in nearly half of products tested. Federal law and an international treaty restrict the use of mercury in cosmetics to 1 ppm.

Consumers should be wary of high levels of mercury in certain skin-lightening creams imported from other countries, the California Department of Public Health warned Thursday. The state agency issued ...

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 ...

She had been buying face cream through a friend of a friend for 12 years. This time, it was Pond’s “Rejuveness,” a version of the company’s anti-wrinkle cream that is made and sold in Mexico. But ...