| Lightening Cream Article | Skin whitening is a term covering a variety of cosmetic methods used to whiten the skin, in parts of East Asia, the Americas, the Middle East, and Africa. Skin lightening or whitening is a controversial topic as it is closely intertwined with the detrimental effects on health, identity, self image and racial supremacy. See article on colonial mentality. Many skin whitening cremes are made from deadly chemicals. Dr. S Allen Counter talked about such frigthening findings in this article in the Boston Globe "In Mexico, as in other countries such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, most of the patients with clinical evidence of mercury poisoning were women. Even in the Southwestern Unites States, 96 percent of the more than 300 patients found to have abnormal mercury levels were female." "In every case, clinical questioning revealed that the women had used skin-whitening creams -- many for years. In other words, these women had tried so desperately to whiten their skin color that they had poisoned their bodies by applying mercury-based "beauty creams." "Mercury poisoning is known to cause neurological and kidney damage and may also lead to psychiatric disorders."
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