Food and Drug Administration banned 23 more whitening beauty products containing mercury. As you can recall, some Chinese beauty products were already banned last year due to the same reason, they all contain mercury in excess of the legal limit.
At present, the 23 banned whitening products are manufactured from Taiwan, China and Hong Kong. FDA warned the public that excessive amount of mercury is harmful to the nervous system and kidneys. The number 1 whitening product with the highest level of mercury is Miss Beauty Magic Cream which has 28,600 ppm.
Below is the complete list of skin whitening creams banned by the FDA:
- Miss Beauty Magic Cream
- Miss Beauty Excellent Therapy Whitening Cream
- Dagette and Ramsdell Underarm Lightening Cream
- Lanmeirou 12 Days Whiten and Speckle Removing Suit
- Berglotus Spot Removing Series
- Yoko Gentlemen Cream for Men
- Jonathan Clearing Facial Spots 12 Day Cream
- The Flower Woman 7-day Whitening and Spot and Night Set Cream
- Sara Glutathione Sheep Placenta Whitening and Anti-Spot Cream
- Aichun Beauty Green Tea Whitening Speckle Removing Series Cream
- Aichun Beauty Whitening Freckle Day and Night Cream
- BIB Night Cream Whitening Cream
- Pretty Model Whitening and Freckle Removing (Day Cream and Night Cream-Set)
- Pretty Girl 10 Day Special Cream
- Pretty Girl Green Cucumber and Ginseng Cream
- Liliki Whitening Day Cream
- Liliki Whitening Night Cream
- New Miss Beauty Magic Cream
- Jiaoli Rejuvenation Essence 10 Days Speckle Removing
- Jaio Liang 7 Days Eliminating Freckle AB Set
- Jiao Liang 10 Days Eliminating Freckle AB Set
- Beauty Girl 6 Days Specific Eliminating Freckle Whitening Cream Egg White and Tomato 3in1
- Beautiful Dream Whitening Anti-Speckle and Anti-Acne Kit