Report: Cosmetics firm using remains of executed Chinese Special to World Tribune.com EAST-ASIA-INTEL.COM Thursday, March 23, 2006 A Chinese cosmetics company has been using skin taken from the bodies of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, a London newspaper reported. An agent for the company informed customers it is developing collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments from skin taken from prisoners after they had been shot. The agent said some of the company‘s products have been exported to Britain, and that the use of skin from condemned convicts was “traditional" and nothing to “make such a big fuss about,“ the Guardian reported In addition to ethical concerns, there is the potential risk of infection from the harvested skin products. The company was not identified by name for legal reasons and it is unclear whether collagen made from the skin of prisoners was in the research stage or in actual production. “A lot of the research is still carried out in the traditional manner using skin from the executed prisoners and aborted fetus," the agent was quoted as saying. The material, he said, was being bought from “biotech" companies based in Heilongjiang Province and was being developed elsewhere in China. He suggested that the use of skin and other tissues harvested from executed prisoners was not uncommon. “In China it is considered very normal and I was very shocked that Western countries can make such a big fuss about this," he said. In the past, human rights groups have charged that China was using organs harvested from executed prisoners for medical transplants both domestically and internationally. China executed about 3,400 prisoners last year, according to Amnesty International.
Hearing this I don't want to wear cosmetics anymore! Just think about.. having somebody else's skin on your face.. yuk!!!
you probably wouldn't use most things if you really knew what went into them/into making them/who made them...
Well all I know and heard about cosmetics is that they contain animal fat, vegetable, etc... still ok but here we're taling about human! How can they do that. This may sound normal to chinese, everything is "normal" to them, I was watching a program on tv once.. they were eating friend cockroaches! That was disgusting
Makes sense - so long as it was only for testing and none of the skin was used in the products. I'd much prefer the use of dead people to the use of animals. And there I was, saying that these cosmetics stuff are all a load of marketing rubbish.
rubeina, Yeah don't use cosmetics. I don't use it myself since I'm a guy but I have no need for girls for girls with cosmetica. It just makes no sense to me. Offtopic, Crazy_rob did a good job today, he moved this thread from General Chat to the right section. Respect to him!
Well, Asians do look younger than their real age so using them, literally, in makeup just makes sense. Women always want to look younger.
A former american agent after his boiler-rooms were shut down in asia and after he went completly broke, set up a business with fetus, buying them from abortion clinics and selling them with high profits to american and isreali gen researchers and cosmetic industries. Fortunaely he got cut of this deals too.