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The cost of bleaching, Sh150 to 20 million: Nairobi women caught up in the quest for lighter skin

Vera Sidika and Bridget Achieng
  • River Road is now the home illegal skin bleaching products
  • A single tube of cream cost her Sh6,000
  • Majority of backstreet skin lightening products are dangerous and harmful

Nairobi’s River Road is known for many things, among them prostitution, illegal hawking, fake goods and genuine but stolen goods.

More recently, it has become the home of illegal skin bleaching products thanks to the belief among women that Kenyan men love women with ‘whiter' skin.

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