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China’s Murder Makeup- Face Whitener Has 6x Too Much Mercury

Posted by w_thames_the_d on May 15, 2012


Here is a translation of part of the article below. In essence, the claim is that some Chinese skin bleaching cream has too much mercury and can cuase skin necrosis or death.
Excerpt

“The play the role of beauty and cosmetics of this in recent years,frequent cosmetics heavy metals exceeded the news, even namedmany international big names. CCTV “Weekly Quality Report”yesterday, exposure of skin lightening cosmetics mercury content exceeded six times, leading users of mercury poisoning, and evensuffering from nephrotic syndrome.
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http://dzh.mop.com/t/SF7Sz5I29a0289F3

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