It might not be a good idea...

..to buy Chinese beauty products. They are using executed prisoners and probably aborted fetuses to extract collagen. From The Guardian:

"Agents for the firm have told would-be customers it is developing collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments from skin taken from prisoners after they have been shot. The agents say some of the company's products have been exported to the UK, and that the use of skin from condemned convicts is "traditional" and nothing to "make such a big fuss about".

(Snip) "...An agent told customers it had also exported to the US and European countries, and that it was trying to develop fillers using tissue from aborted foetuses.."

"In June 2001, Wang Guoqi, a Chinese former military physician, told US congressmen he had worked at execution grounds helping surgeons to harvest the organs of more than 100 executed prisoners, without prior consent. The surgeons used converted vans parked near the execution grounds to begin dissecting the bodies, he told the house international relations committee's human rights panel.

"Skin was said to be highly valued for the treatment of burn victims, and Dr Wang said that in 1995 he skinned a shot convict's body while the man's heart was still beating. Dr Wang, who was seeking asylum in the US, also alleged that corneas and other body tissue were removed for transplant, and said his hospital, the Tianjin paramilitary police general brigade hospital, sold body parts for profit."

Read the whole thing.

Incidentally, the traveling German "art "exhibit featuring flayed and preserved bodies, now in Toronto, has also been tied to executed prisoners.