Regulations prohibiting the use of any active or potentially active depigmenting ingredient, lead and its salts, mercury and its salts and the cosmetic category skin bleacher, skin lightener or skin whitener

This South African notice prohibits lead and its salts, mercury and its salts, active depigmenting ingredients, and skin-bleacher or skin-lightener cosmetic categories. Its proviso preserves narrow mercury-preservative exceptions for eye make-up and for concentrated shampoo or cream, calculated as the metal. The structured rows capture only those numeric mercury exceptions. The broader lead and mercury prohibitions are gap-logged because they are not expressed as numeric concentration limits.

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