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EU Safety Gate · Report-2011-031

Arche Gold · Skin lightening cream "Faimess cream"

The product poses a chemical risk because it contains a mercury compound as a skin-lightening substance which is prohibited by the Cosmetics Directive 76/768/EEC.

Published
05 August 2011
Notifying authority
The Netherlands
Catalog checked
30 July 2026
What should you do?

Check the authority measure and original alert.

Open the original alert before further use and follow the measures stated there.

Official source alert
Safety Gate reference
0461/11
Model
Regd No 223338 Batch code 1000 000 052
Category
Cosmetics
Risk type
Chemical
Country of origin
Pakistan

Skin-lightening cream