Long before Michael Jackson did the racially wrong change -or was it a skin disease?- from black to not-quite-white, there was plenty of ads like this one,
"Skin tone cream", 1959
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A quick check on Wikipedia for the Miracle-Action ingredient, Hydroquinone, reveals the sombre reality -products containing it have been banned for several years as potential carcinogens.
Now you know. Fifty years too late.
Still today in some places, like India, it is socially ok to bleach your skin with hydroquinone. Even if you get cancer later.
Now you know. Fifty years too late.
Still today in some places, like India, it is socially ok to bleach your skin with hydroquinone. Even if you get cancer later.
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