Skin whitening products containing high levels of mercury continue to be sold on the world's biggest e-commerce platforms, including websites run by eBay, Amazon and Alibaba, a new report by the Zero ...

MINNESOTA -- A woman in Minnesota lost part of her vision and inadvertently put her entire household at risk of mercury poisoning, most likely from using beauty creams containing high levels of the ...

(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 ...

Hence, your skin starts to sag and get wrinkles over time. The answer seems simple, though, right? Just get yourself a ...

While many Americans often long for the perfect tan, a popular desire in Asia for many women and men is fair skin. Current skin-whitening products often contain mercury and the chemical hydroquinone, ...

The Minnesota woman had also suffered from muscle weakness, insomnia and leg pain after her 'prolonged use' of the creams Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

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 ...

Unilever on Thursday said it would change the name of its Fair & Lovely brand of skin-lightening cream but continue to sell the popular but controversial cosmetics product in India and elsewhere in ...

The companies sell dozens of products with mercury levels up to 30,000 times greater than legally allowed, according to the ...

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 ...