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...such as Tretinoin, an acne medicine, and Hydroquinone, a skin whitening treatment....
...It seems fanciful to compare the fictional multibillion-dollar Roy media empire with a company that makes surgical scissors and teeth whitening products, with about 140 employees and sales in 75 countries...
...If UK goods heading to NI have to comply with divergent EU standards, that creates a world of pain.For example, the EU is phasing out a food whitening compound called titanium dioxide....
...When trying to turn coffee-stained incisors to alabaster, it’s worth visiting a dentist, because while all whitening gels contain the same active ingredient – hydrogen peroxide or carbamide peroxide – products...
...Instead it last year rebranded it Glow & Lovely and said the product would no longer be sold with promises of whitening or lightening skin....
...The whitening cream market has boomed in recent decades, when many other global brands launched products to compete with Fair & Lovely....
...Too little, too late Commitments from Unilever and L’Oréal to remove references to “whitening” and “fairness” from their skin-lightening creams, popular in India and south-east Asia, were slammed by activists...
...market is under growing scrutiny after Johnson & Johnson, Unilever and L’Oréal announced changes to regional products in response to the global anti-racist movement....
...“But now lots of foreigners come here and buy Japanese products....
...Its main brand is AHC, and it also sells a large range of whitening products, which are an Asian skincare staple....
...Even if I was just buying a normal body cream, the sales attendants would try to sell me creams with whitening bleach in to make my skin lighter....
...to skin whitening to anti-ageing....
...He says more and more small entrepreneurs are developing pink products and services, mostly in the area of “micro-plastic surgery, male intimate wash and whitening skincare”....
...The latest hit in oil pulling is Cocowhite, a 14-day teeth whitening programme (£19.99)....
...The project developer, Nordic Mining, says that in return 170 jobs would be created to excavate titanium oxide, a mineral used in teeth whitening and other products....
...Hindustan Unilever, a division of the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods group, is best known for personal care products Lifebuoy soap, Pepsodent toothpaste and Fair & Lovely skin-whitening cream....
...About half of the company’s overseas sales come from China but the company products such as whitening creams and “air cushion” foundations soaked in a sponge are also popular in southeast Asia....
...If we abhor choosing a baby’s skin colour, we should also condemn such products as Fair and Handsome, the “fairness cream” that Mr Khan endorses....
...Teeth whitening products account for 5 to 6 per cent of the $35bn market in consumer dental products, according to P&G....
...From teeth whitening to lipo-massage and facial toning, it seems there is now an at-home gadget to fix almost all your physical flaws....
...“There is a genuine demand for whitening products which we respond to by offering products whose function is to eliminate hyper-pigmentation and to even and brighten the skin tone,” said L’Oréal....
...Other companies have begun peddling “fairness” products for teenagers, shower gels and even vaginal whitening creams. Shops are filled with new lines for men, once immune from the pressure to be fair....
...Spending on make-up and skin-whitening cream soars in the last week of Ramadan as women beautify themselves ahead of their trips home, Mr Susilo notes....
...A tooth-whitening stall puts up a sign: “Last hour. Tooth whitening kits £20. Two for £35.” There is a queue for the gold eye bag patches....
...China, India, Malaysia, Japan and Korea in particular experienced rising demand for products, from skin-whitening creams to razor blades....
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