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Today we're going back to 1990 when South Africa became the first

country in the world to ban skin lightning creams containing the chemical

compound hydroquinone which for years had been causing an irreversible form of skin damage called

ochronosis. There's an initial bleaching effect but subsequently the skin darkens, so it only works for about 10 to 12 weeks as a pigment lightener,

thereafter there's darkening anywhere.

But the ochronosis, what happens is

the skin over the cheeks becomes black. It darkens considerably and then they develop

tiny little black lumps just under the skin that look like caviar.

Dr Hillary Carmen has been working as a dermatologist in South Africa for decades.

She first realized there was a problem with ochronosis

when she started working in a segregated dermatology clinic which only treated black South Africans at the time of South Africa's racist apartheid government.

30% of the population of women are estimates were 30% of women were affected.

So it was the epidemiology, the 30% of women had this condition.

Hillary's colleague Dr George Finley was one of the first people to properly identify the condition among black patients.

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