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Maharashtra Bans 3 Beauty Products, Including Pak-Made Fairness Cream, Over Toxic Mercury

Unregulated fairness and skin-whitening creams often illegally add heavy metals like mercury to suppress melanin product

Imran Qureshi
Imran Qureshi
Senior City Reporter · Sun, 05 July 2026 at 06:00 pm
Maharashtra Bans 3 Beauty Products, Including Pak-Made Fairness Cream, Over Toxic Mercury

Unregulated fairness and skin-whitening creams often illegally add heavy metals like mercury to suppress melanin production in the skin.

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