(CNN) -- Skin-whitening creams can be as toxic as paint strippers and should be "avoided at all costs," the UK's Local Government Association has warned. The creams "act like paint stripper and ...

It got worse as she got older. In high school, she was nominated for the "Makeover Required" category in her high school in Islamabad, Pakistan. And in graduate school, fellow students would yell "let ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of ‘White lies‘, a series by CNN’s As Equals investigating skin whitening practices worldwide to expose the underlying drivers of colorism, the industry that profits ...

Although the saying goes, “The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice,” trends tend to show favoritism to fairer-skinned people; so, some celebrities and public figures alike often feel pressure to ...

BANGKOK (AP) - A Thai cosmetics company quickly pulled a video in which an actress wears blackface and promotes a skin-whitener with the slogan: "You just need to be white to win." The retraction did ...

Unilever’s “Fair & Lovely” brand is sold across Asia as a popular skin whitener. The company announced that it would change the name and remove the words “fair,” “whitening” and “lightening” from its ...

Skin whitening is the use of cosmetic products or services to reduce the amount of melanin, or pigment, in the skin to make it appear lighter. It’s a big industry and predominantly targets women of ...

A woman’s years-long beauty regimen caused severe mercury poisoning and irreversible neurological damage, say her doctors in a recent case report published by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The ridicule started at age 6. Classmates would bully Fatima Lodhi, taunting her and other darker students with derogatory names. It got worse as she got older. In high school, she was nominated for ...

“Light skin, white skin, is still considered the ambassador of beauty,” Lodhi said. A recent study found that more than half of 1,992 men and women surveyed about product use in India had tried skin ...