Corporate News 25 June 2020 | 07:16 AM

Unilever, rivals mull changes amid global backlash against skin-lightening products

MUMBAI/ISLAMABAD: Unilever is considering marketing changes to its dominant line of skin lightening creams, according to a company source in South Asia, even as the company and its rivals face a growing global social media backlash against such products.

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Nation 23 Aug 2022 | 10:42 AM

Momila Beauty Whitening Cream banned for containing mercury

PUTRAJAYA: The National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA) of the Health Ministry has cancelled a cosmetic product because it was found to contain scheduled poisons and is thus no longer allowed to be sold in Malaysia.

Nation 11 June 2021 | 01:21 PM

MOH: Brilliant Skin Essentials Whitening Facial Cream contains scheduled poison tretinoin

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The Health Ministry has confirmed that the cosmetic product, Brilliant Skin Essentials Whitening Facial Cream, contains the scheduled poison tretinoin.

Living 14 July 2020 | 02:00 AM

Colourism in India: Many women start using whitening products as children

The narrative is that if you are dark-skinned, you cannot achieve anything in life.

Nation 23 Oct 2022 | 06:56 AM

NPRA bans five cosmetic products that contain scheduled poison

PETALING JAYA: Five cosmetic products have been found to contain scheduled poison, says the Health Ministry’s National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA).

India 10 July 2020 | 12:41 PM

Fair and unlovely: India confronts dark-skin bias

New Delhi, July 10, 2020 (AFP): When Chandana Hiran was a child, strangers would urge her to lighten her skin. Today the Indian student is leading a campaign against whitening creams as global anti-racism protests highlight the obsession with fair complexions for many in Asia.

Style 29 June 2020 | 06:00 AM

L'Oreal removes words like 'whitening' from its products

French cosmetics giant L'Oreal removes words like "whitening" from its products, as global anti-racism protests wake big businesses up to the issue.

Aseanplus News 19 Oct 2020 | 08:29 AM

Brunei: 8 well-known cosmetic products in country found tainted

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Oct 19 (Borneo Bulletin/ANN): The Ministry of Health (MoH) of Brunei alerted the public to eight cosmetic products tested by the Laboratory of Pharmacy Section, Department of Scientific Services, MoH and found to be adulterated with undeclared, potent western medicine.

Brunei 25 Aug 2021 | 10:18 AM

Brunei Health Ministry raises red flag on adulterated beauty products

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Borneo Bulletin/Asia News Network): The Ministry of Health (MoH) alerted the public on three cosmetic products, after tests conducted by the Laboratory of Pharmacy Section under the Department of Scientific Services at the MoH found them to be adulterated with undeclared potent Western medicine.

Nation 18 Nov 2024 | 11:00 PM

INTERACTIVE: Crackdown on toxic beauty ingredients

Malaysia will prohibit three more harmful chemicals in beauty products starting November 21, reflecting NPRA's efforts to protect consumer health.

Nation 18 Nov 2024 | 11:00 PM

When the search for beauty turns beastly

PETALING JAYA: A housewife’s quest for glowing, glass-like skin turned into a nightmare after she used budget facial products that caused severe swelling and redness.

Know Your Medicines 19 Aug 2024 | 03:00 AM

Beware cosmetics that contain harmful substances, especially skincare

Unscrupulous cosmetic manufacturers have been known to include dangerous substances in their products.

Singapore 16 July 2023 | 01:08 PM

Singapore doctors warn of risks of using products that claim to lighten skin in intimate areas

The beauty product looks like a regular tube of lip tint, but it has a more titillating claim.

Vietnam 30 Sept 2020 | 03:49 AM

Trailblazing Vietnamese beauty queen pushes girls to stay in school

HO CHI MINH CITY (AFP): Skin-whitening, child marriage, a curtailed education: Vietnamese model and literacy campaigner H'Hen Nie has defied traditional expectations laid on her -- and is now determined to show the next generation a different way.

Vietnam 4 Oct 2020 | 12:02 PM

Trailblazing Vietnamese beauty queen pushing girls to stay in school

HO CHIH MINH CITY, Oct 4 (AFP): Skin-whitening, child marriage, a curtailed education: Vietnamese model and literacy campaigner H'Hen Nie has defied traditional expectations laid on her -- and is now determined to show the next generation a different way.

Family 1 Oct 2020 | 01:30 AM

Beauty queen pushes girls to stay in school

Since her win, H'Hen Nie has raised tens of thousands of dollars to build libraries in Vietnam's rural central provinces and supported girls across Asia and Africa to complete secondary school.

Corporate News 25 June 2020 | 07:16 AM

Unilever, rivals mull changes amid global backlash against skin-lightening products

MUMBAI/ISLAMABAD: Unilever is considering marketing changes to its dominant line of skin lightening creams, according to a company source in South Asia, even as the company and its rivals face a growing global social media backlash against such products.

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