Secret haul of 2,500 products being seized is caught on camera London Trading Standards campaign against illegal skin lighteners has resulted in another successful prosecution, with fines and costs totalling £48,942, plus the imposition of a 15 week suspended prison sentence. Shaba Hair & Cosmetics (Peckham) Limited, and former Director Mr Banaras Hussain, was sentenced
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London Trading Standards campaign against illegal skin lightening products has seen further success. Since August three more businesses have been successfully prosecuted including, for the first time, an online seller. In Barking & Dagenham the owner of a beauty salon received a three-month suspended sentence and was ordered to pay fines and costs of over
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London Trading Standards campaign against illegal skin lightening products saw further success last month when two more businesses were successfully prosecuted. In Barking & Dagenham Ms Ashwinder Sachdeva (37), the Director of Glamour Touch (UK) Limited at 66 East Street, Barking, IG11 appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court.  She pleaded guilty to labelling, composition and trade
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London Trading Standards have had more success in their campaign against High Street traders selling illegal and dangerous skin lightening products. In recent months ten businesses have been ordered to pay fines and costs of over £126,000 for their involvement in the supply of cosmetics that either contain banned or restricted substances or failed to
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Thousands of image-conscious Londoners are risking their health and even their lives by continuing to use banned skin lightening creams that can seriously damage organs and even cause cancer, according to London Trading Standards. The capital’s trading standards’ association – which works with 33 local authorities – has renewed its health warnings to both the public
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Wande Alugo, who founded the influential beauty, fashion and lifestyle blog www.wandesworld.com, gives her views on the use of skin lightening creams, and the illegal skin whitening products which pose a real danger to the public in London and beyond.

Dr Bav Shergill, Consultant Dermatologist and Trustee at the British Skin Foundation gives his advice about the use of harmful banned skin lightening products. “Many illegal skin lightening beauty products promise to lighten dark blemishes and make complexions fairer, though people should be aware that there are dangers associated with use of these products. Personal
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