Skin lightening cream "Skin Litener Cream"
MIC
CosmeticsChemical
- Notifying country
- The Netherlands
Requirements breached
The product poses a chemical risk because it contains 0.7% of hydroquinone as a skin-lightening substance which is prohibited by the Cosmetics Directive 76/768/EEC
Product
- Description
- Red and white cardboard box with red, blue and white characters. Labelled “contains hydroquinone 2 %”
- Brand
- Model / type
Original source
Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.
- Alert number
- 0462/11 ↗
- Weekly report
- Report-2011-021
- Published
- 13 May 2011
- Corrigendum
- <font color="#ff0000"><b>Corrigendum</b></font><br/> Notification 0333/11 from the report 15 of 2011 has been modified and removed from the RAPEX website following the additional information on the risk assessment provided by the notifying authorities.
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