CHEBI:85046 - skin lightening agent

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ChEBI Name skin lightening agent ChEBI ID CHEBI:85046 Definition Any cosmetic used to lighten the colour of skin by reducing the concentration of melanin. Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team. Wikipedia License Read full article at Wikipedia ChEBI Ontology Outgoing skin lightening agent (CHEBI:85046) is a cosmetic (CHEBI:64857) Incoming L-ascorbic acid (CHEBI:29073) has role skin lightening agent (CHEBI:85046) ellagic acid (CHEBI:4775) has role skin lightening agent (CHEBI:85046) glutathione (CHEBI:16856) has role skin lightening agent (CHEBI:85046) hydroquinone (CHEBI:17594) has role skin lightening agent (CHEBI:85046) kojic acid (CHEBI:43572) has role skin lightening agent (CHEBI:85046) Synonyms Sources melanogenesis inhibitor ChEBI melanogenesis inhibitors ChEBI skin bleaching agent ChEBI skin bleaching agents ChEBI skin depigmenting agent ChEBI skin depigmenting agents ChEBI skin lightening agents ChEBI skin whitening agent ChEBI skin whitening agents ChEBI Manual Xref Database Skin_whitening Wikipedia View more database links Citations Types Sources 21265866 PubMed citation Europe PMC 22132817 PubMed citation Europe PMC 22314516 PubMed citation Europe PMC 23891889 PubMed citation Europe PMC 23974587 PubMed citation Europe PMC 25535470 PubMed citation Europe PMC 25574195 PubMed citation Europe PMC 25643794 PubMed citation Europe PMC Last Modified 26 July 2021