RAPEX CONSUMER ALERTS – SKIN WHITENING AND BRONZING CREAMS
August 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) consumer alert service RAPEX has warned of three skin-creams being withdrawn from sale because their ingredients include substances banned or restricted by the EU cosmetics directive. They are:
*A US-made tanning intensifier and bronzer named 'Swedish Beauty' banned by British consumer authorities for containing vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) which the directive prohibits in cosmetics;
*An Ivory Coast-made skin lightening beauty cream 'G&G' (500 g can), recalled in Germany because of excess concentrations of hydroquinone; ...
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