lightener
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The contrast of the fancy dress and orange flotation devices was a mood lightener in what could have been a heavy atmosphere.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
Hartman also warns about glutathione, an antioxidant that is sold as an oral supplement and in injectable form as a skin lightener.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2022
My downfall came in the form of two boxes of hair lightener, the kind of hard bleach used to scour crude oil off cruise ships.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2015
And I swear to you on the tub of Sun-In hair lightener into which I dunk my increasingly bushy head each morning: I will achieve a kale-only diet.
From Slate ● May 8, 2012
In this way the shell was converted into a decomposing mass before being applied to the ground, and gave excellent results both as a manure and as a lightener of heavy soils.
From Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer by Knapp, Arthur William
Across the borough of Southwark alone, 62 companies or individuals have been prosecuted for selling skin lighteners since 2002.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
Other beauty treatments — skin lighteners, skin tighteners, wrinkle reducers — have known side effects and complications, too.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022
In part that’s because she’s not allegorical; she’s a practical businesswoman who understands that her vanishing trade in hair straighteners and skin lighteners is different only by degree from Crookman’s.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
The vitamin C and niacinamide in this eye gel, $17.99, are known skin lighteners that help reduce excess under-eye pigment.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2020
Instead of using skin lighteners and hair straighteners, black power advocates began adopting a style of dress with an African flavor.
From The Black Experience in America by Coombs, Norman
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