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Michael Jackson had vitiligo, a rare disease that discolors the face and body. He may have tried some artificial processes to disguise the effects, but it wasn’t an intentional attempt to change his skin color.
He had vitiligo and to hide it he used creams to keep his skin from producing pigment. He also used makeup.
This was confirmed in his autopsy report iirc.
Some of these creams contain heavy metals or possibly harmful compounds. The majority of them are sold in Africa and India but they are also available in the US. A lot of these creams are not approved in the European Union.
Not all of them work in the same way, for some the way they work is unknown, some speed up the breakdown of skin pigmentation and some prevent/reduce the production of new pigments.
The short explanation is that it involves changing the concentration of melanin in your skin cells. Tanning stimulates the production of melanin to protect against the endured radiation that your skin is taking.
Skin bleaching typically removes melanin from the skin, though it likely removes more than that. Can’t really comment on other methods of achieving that, but like with tanning lotion, it likely involves artificially pigmentting the skin.
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