Government acts to end illegal production of black market cosmetics (1941)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit A look at the health dangers of black market cosmetics. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: War on disease-spreading cosmetics! Paramount investigates make-up racket which government order aims to destroy. ENGLAND: London: Cosmetics on dressing table pan to girl making up / Woman applying lipstick / Woman pencilling eyebrows / PAN women in beauty parlour / Face mask removed / Woman putting lipstick on using handheld mirror / Woman powdering face / Woman making up lips General view “Coty“ cosmetics factory / Interior shots of factory showing big vats, women in overalls and caps at work in make-up factory / Mixing-machines making face cream / Woman pushing trolley with containers of cream along / Woman worker at vat PAN to cream coming out into container / Lipstick substance poured on to rollers / Rollers turning. / Liquid pouring from machine into vat container / Lips