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As much as possible, you should avoid skin lightening creams (bleaching creams).
While you may get lucky, there are quite a few people who don't. There are scores of side effects that can occur with the use of lightening creams because of the ingredients used to make them, including steroids, mercury, hydroquinone etc.
There are many side effects to using these creams, and the problem is that some of these issues only show up years or decades after you've used them. Sometimes even if you've stopped already.