“Random” cosmetics threaten the health of Moroccan women

A. Latif Baraka – Heba Press

This is a random reality that the women’s cosmetics sector in Morocco is experiencing. Reports indicate that most women, especially those in rural areas, accept products of unknown origin, some of which are imported and others are manufactured locally. threaten women’s health.

– Local preparations for weight gain

A number of women have become vulnerable to fraud and deception. Most of them follow promotional leaflets on social networking sites, where “hackers” deliberately promote products of unknown origin, offering them to women who want to enlarge their buttocks or buttocks. are products that are named after a geographical area and are promoted on the Internet. They are useful for increasing women’s weight, such as “desert lick” to increase girls’ weight in record time, according to a “narrow” perspective of beauty. , wrapped in the sale of illusions, so that young girls become victims of other people’s pleasure and the satisfaction of “virtual” aspirations.

– Warnings about health symptoms of these products

A number of public health experts, as well as cosmetic doctors, have warned of the dangers of unhealthy weight gain, warning of the danger of counterfeit products used for this purpose by women.

They point out that most of the products sold today in Moroccan markets are of unknown origin and do not have licenses from the health authorities, while Moroccan women are increasingly in demand, such as nutritional supplements composed of sugars and fats present in these products, and they pose a risk to the health of their users due to the lack of movement and effort to burn this excess thermal energy, “stressing that” weight gain does not correspond to the false promises and temptations of promoters on social media sites, as they cannot increase weight in specific areas of the body.

In the same context, there are reports that there are products with counterfeit brands and that their manufacturers deliberately use drugs against immune diseases, which increase weight in an unhealthy way by increasing the percentage of salt and water in the body, causing bloating that suggests to consumers that this is a real and at the same time short-term result, which exposes the user to diabetes and high blood pressure, as well as the possibility of strokes and osteoporosis problems.

Blocking e-commerce is one way to stop the promotion of these products

Official statistics indicate that about 60 percent of these “fake” cosmetics are sold through e-commerce, where the consumer contacts the promotional page, which only lists telephone numbers without addresses of its business headquarters, and the product is delivered to the applicant through distribution companies in exchange for directly extracting the price of the product from the customer.

The remaining 40 percent of this trade is done through covert promotion of these products in markets, where the promoter meets the customer directly, for the delivery and fulfillment process.

– Existing legal arsenal and weakness of control

Local and health authorities from time to time launch campaigns in the markets, in order to confiscate preparations harmful to public health, and generally reports are published and their promoters are followed only by financial fines, without imprisonment, which can contribute to besieging the promoters of these substances dangerous to public health.