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 ...

The government in Nigeria is warning about the health risks of skin lightening, where potent chemicals can thin and damage skin. It's a booming... Skin bleaching is terribly popular -- and takes a ...

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 ...

A Performance Studies PhD candidate at Northwestern University in the United States, Olabanke Goriola, has said skin bleaching among Nigerian women is driven by childhood conditioning that equates ...

Susan Anderson, age 52, sits in the corner of a sunlit waiting room at a dermatology clinic in Nigeria's capital, Abuja. Dark patches of skin, dotted with brighter pigments, surround her eyes and ...