Cote d'Ivoire: Ivory Coast Bans Bleaching Creams Amid Health Concerns

[DaAssWatcher]

Ivory Coast has banned skin-whitening creams, also known as bleaching creams, because of health concerns, the health ministry said on Thursday, May 7, 2015.

It said in a statement that "cosmetic lightening and hygiene creams that de-pigment the skin are now forbidden."

Bleaching creams have been popular for years among young women and men across Africa, but medical experts say they may cause cancer, diabetes, side-effects such as severe skin conditions, and other diseases.

"The number of people with side-effects caused by these (creams) is really high," a member of Ivory Coast's pharmaceutical authority, Christian Doudouko, said, according to a report by the AFP news agency.

 

[Nzinga]

They will fail. This is not the first time this has been tried. The bullshit
will still come through the black market channels that dominate trade
in Africa.... I commend them though...

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[kefta]

Good!

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

I would never do no such thing to my

gift of melanin,

then again I know its universal worth!


On a place that gets as much sun as Africa and Jamaica

you just have to be partially retarded to do such a thing


to your blessings..

 

[kefta]

Yah boy, Kefta says it best. It is the context of racism and white supremacy. Hell, I said it wrong but you get what I am saying.