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Has the skin lightener industry learned from Black Lives Matter?

Post author:Kiplagat
Post published:February 1, 2021
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Ending the most dangerous dimensions of the trade – the promotion of racist beauty ideals and the use of products containing mercury and other toxic ingredients – will require ongoing consciousness-raising and effective government regulation.

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There’s a complex history of skin lighteners in Africa and beyond

Post author:Kiplagat
Post published:October 7, 2020
Post category:Glamour Health
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During the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, skin colour and associated physical difference were used to distinguish enslaved people from free, and to justify the former’s oppression.

Has the skin lightener industry learned from Black Lives Matter?

There’s a complex history of skin lighteners in Africa and beyond

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