China’s toxic face cream sold 700,000 bottles of mercury 7,000 times over the limit

The product was produced in an abandoned public toilet without a legal official approval number, and has sold more than 700,000 bottles, attracting more than 30 million RMB.

The Netflix cream produced in the abandoned public toilet

According to media reports, Mo Mo (pseudonym), a beauty-loving woman from Linhai, Taizhou, Zhejiang province, bought a bottle of the legendary Netflix beauty cream that was selling extremely well in the micro-business circle, but she didn’t expect to be disfigured instead of beautified. “The face is full of molted skin, like burnt, painful and itchy.”

At the end of August last year, Ms. Mo negotiated with the seller several times to no avail before covering herself up and walking into the market regulator. After investigation by the authorities found that these inferior products are produced by the surname Wu sisters, manufacturing chain throughout Zhejiang, Chongqing, Guangzhou and Heilongjiang.

The original Nanyang, Henan Province, a woman named Bao Mouhuan 80, after graduating from college to work in Linhai, met her husband Bi, the two married and had a child, Bao Mouhuan in order to take care of children quit work, and opened an online store operating regular cosmetics, business is dismal.

The two of them got married and had children, and quit their jobs in order to take care of their children, and opened a regular online shop, but the business was not good. Until 2014, Mouhuan met a woman named Wu Moujie online, and was introduced by her to buy some beauty creams called “Qiongman” and “Haoman” from her employee Sheng at low prices and put them on their online store for sale, as the beauty creams contained excessive levels of As the beauty cream contains excessive heavy metal mercury and fluorescent agent, the whitening effect is remarkable, and the online store business has suddenly become hot.

In the second half of 2014, Bao Mouhuan registered three Taobao online stores, “Manmuro Beauty Supplies Store”, “Haoman Beauty House” and “Love Beauty House”, and She recruited three micro-business agents to sell “Qiongman” and “Haoman” beauty creams, and the business became bigger and bigger, and the products were in short supply. After packaging, she sold them through Taobao and micro business platforms.

On September 1, 2020, Bao Mouhuan was caught in Linhai Weixing compound, where a large number of “Qiongman” and “Haoman” beauty creams and canned raw materials, empty bottles, etc. On January 18, 2021, Bao Mouhuan was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the crime of producing and selling shoddy products. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison, confiscated the illegal income of 170,000 yuan, and fined 100,000 yuan.

Based on the confession of Bao Mouhuan, the authorities were able to locate his predecessors, Sheng and Wu Moujie, and thus a Family-based production and sales gang of counterfeit and substandard cosmetics was revealed in the mountainous city of Chongqing.

Ltd. was registered in 2010, according to the law to obtain a business license cosmetics license, production and sales of Wu Yujie series of cosmetics, business has been lukewarm.

Wu Moujie soon shifted his attention to spot creams, whitening creams and other skin care products with immediate results, but because these products often have extremely high mercury content, it is impossible to sell through legal channels, Wu Moujie couple played a ghost trick to steal the day to sell in the name of Wu Yujie regular cosmetics company with excessive mercury content of “Qiongman”, “Haoman” beauty cream. “Haoman” beauty cream.

What is unexpected is that only two years of work, Wu Moujie couple from an ordinary trader has developed into a multi-millionaire, drive luxury cars, live in a villa at the same Time, the couple’s relationship also broke down due to the intervention of a third party, the two divorced, Wu Moujie re-registered Xifei Xuan Daily Cosmetics Co. The two of them are still maintaining a close business partnership for the sake of high profits, and continue to repair the road in the open, but also in the dark.

In 2014, Wu Moujie suspected that the price of raw materials in Guangzhou is too expensive, to find the “General Tang” in Harbin, to a barrel of 20 kg price of 2,000 yuan, the purchase of cosmetic raw materials, knowing that the test failed, without sending the test, without approval, directing the workshop to direct production, filling, packaging into “Wu Yujie” series of blemish cream, nourishing cream and other cosmetics, and the finished product to his sister Wu Mouqiong sold to the lower line of beauty salons. Sheng and his wife are responsible for the production of raw materials, canning, and packaging into “Qiongman”, “Haoman” beauty cream, through the Internet sold throughout the country.

The company purchases at least two barrels of raw materials from Harbin “Tang” every month, each barrel can produce 500 to 800 bottles of beauty cream. 2014 to date, has produced and sold more than 700,000 bottles of beauty cream, the amount involved in the case more than 30 million yuan. The couple produced and sold more than 700,000 bottles of beauty cream, in addition to the network sales, but also sold to beauty salons in China.

It is unbelievable that these legendary beauty creams claimed to be whitening creams came from abandoned public toilets, and the production site hygiene conditions were extremely poor, with a messy pile of cosmetic raw materials, dirt-heavy tables, rusty filling tools, and flies and insects.

Netizens have left comments on this, “with the word net red things, feel not what good things”, “but all the whitening effect, must contain mercury”, “what people ah, too abominable “.

Some netizens also criticized the Chinese Communist authorities, “What are the regulatory authorities for?” “Wild sales big profits for several years, the authorities only eyes open only eyes closed, must have received a lot of black money.”