Hi all, I found this article today by UNEP reporting that Gabon, Jamaica and Sri Lanka have joined forces to reduce the environmental and health toll of the skin lightening industry. Some of my NGO colleagues in SAICM and the Minamata Convention are doing awareness-raising campaigns, e.g. in the Philippines, and we have written a blog article on gender and bleaching products in 2020: http://gender-chemicals.org/genderchemicals-and-cosmetics.

What are your experiences - are skin-lightening products an increasing problem in your countries? Are the products used by women and men? And are there any good awareness-raising campaigns?