Cosmetics companies have agreed to remove racially offensive language from their skin products - but history, in Kenya and South Africa, shows they’ve done the same before.
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The long history of racist beauty standards alone cannot explain the ongoing global use of harmful skin lighteners.
The history of dangerous cosmetics shows us the harms that women have suffered to meet expectations of what is beautiful.
Skin whitening among women has long been commonplace, but now young Asian men too, are using a plethora of whitening products.
