Signs of mercury poisoning include emotional disturbances, fatigue, forgetfulness, and headaches.
As mercury affects the brain, behavior and personality can also change — with low self-confidence, depression, and timidity.
A regularly updated list of toxic skin lightening creams, lotions and soaps reported to contain dangerous levels of mercury.
Quick fixes are unlikely to restore skin that’s been deeply damaged by long-term use of steroid-based and toxic creams with hydroquinone, monobenzone or mercury. Instead, try slow and restorative healing from the inside out along with natural healing oils.
While it can be a long process, it’s possible to remove mercury from your body. Garlic, cilantro and ginger can help to move mercury out of cells.
Skin whitening creams with mercury make their way all over the world, and sellers are able to get away with it due to poor government safety controls in many places. Online sales also make it easy to completely avoid detection and checks.
Some skin lightening ingredients work well in the short term, but damages skin when used over a longer period of time. Hydroquinone is one of them.