Category: Salons/Beauty Industry

8 Mar

Harmful skin bleaching products in Kenya

As illegal products, the ease of availability for beauty creams containing mercury, steroids and hydroquinone should be troubling. Why is it not? One cannot simply discuss skin bleaching in Kenya/Africa without getting into the socio-politics of why black people lighten their skin. But that’s a broad topic, spanning decades of perceptions of the culture of […]