Mercury is one of the whitening skin care and lightening skin care products ingredient which shouldn’t be used in skin whitening and skin lightening for long time already.
Popularity of Mercury in commercial whitening skin care creams, lightening skin care lotion and soaps goes back to early 1900s. Ammoniated mercury was normally used in production of skin lightening effects. This whitening skin care cream was forcefully promoted to black population in the US.
Many countries banned the use of Mercury in cosmetics and whitening skin care products. In 1976 EU was the first to make mercury illegal followed by US that banned use of mercury in 1990.
The main reason why mercury has been dangerous for humans is it’s ability to be absorbed into the body by ingestion, skin contact or inhalation of the vapors. Its hazardous and damaging effects are spread and structured over time.
It’s proven that when absorbed, mercury can be found in saliva, milk, sweat, bile, urine and blood. Parts such as joints, bones, lungs, liver, cellular tissue and the brain are also filled with mercury poison.
Skin whitening with mercury can be very successful especially in skin lightening of the dark spots and stubborn pigmentation but the bad news is that it has a great remission rate (the original pigmentation returns once the treatment is stopped).
There are many ways to detect mercury poisoning and the main symptoms include inflammation of the mouth and gums, lack of memory, forgetfulness, exhaustion, instability, headaches, emotional disorder and overload of mercury in the body can also create kidney problems (membranous nephropathy).
But this is not all, the major trouble starts when the skin gets in contact with mercury compound this can lead to irritation, including inflammation and the formation of a large amount of small pimples. These pimples may break open leading to pain and embarrassment.
Even today many years after banning use of mercury in whitening skin care cream and lightening skin care lotions, there are still plenty of manufacturers producing and selling skin whitening and skin lightening products in less regulated markets.
Here are the most dangerous whitening skin care and lightening skin care products on the market:
- Diana
- Ly-NA (Nourish face cream)
- Ideal cream
- Crema de Belleza-Manning
- Bivong
- Silvana cream
- Civic (Nourishing cream)
- Melanax
- Butae (Pearl Cream)
- Jiaoli
- Cream Minerva
- Orrefor (Extra Pearl Cream)
- Daifu (Herbal formula/pearl cream)
- ALFA (Extra Pearl cream)
- Ginseng (Extra Pearl Cream)
- Cing-Cing (Roon Petch)
- Yin Fong (Extra Pearl cream)
- Pally (Nourishing Cream)
Use of mercury in medical treatment such as jaundice, smallpox, gonorrhea and vitiligo was very widespread until the discovery of its toxicity. Unfortunately, there still a great number of dishonest manufacturers changing their products names and labels to deceive customers and the controlling system. Even worse, often the packaging of whitening skin care or lightening skin care products will not show mercury as one of the components.
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