lightener
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lighteners
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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
And its good side, as a care lightener, and diversion to toil.
From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Marietta Holley
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 Norman Coombs
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