Ingredient Analysis of Watson Bird Nest Cream

Few days ago, I bought Bird's Nest Silk Facial Cream from Watson, link is here : http://www.watsons.com.my/Unpublished/Skincare/Facial-Care/Facial-Moisturiser/Bird%27s-Nest-Silk-Facial-Cream-50g/p/BP_88997

It felt great in my skin, i.e. it makes my skin becomes moist, and it got me wondering if there is any harmful chemicals, so I start my search on its ingredients.

This comes in a jar, like this

What makes me feeling suspicious too is the jar doesnt have any ingredient written on it, or it may have but it is in Chinese, and I couldnt find the information in Watson website too. Hence, I have to make a second visit to Watson store just to find the ingredients and the license too. FYI, all the ingredients in English is written in its outer box.

Before I went there, I actually did some test to make sure that it doesnt have mercury. I took a little of the cream, and spread it over a paper then iron the paper. Some YouTube video says that if it contains mercury, the paper will turn black. Luckily, after I iron it with medium heat, it didnt turn black. Just to make sure, I even made the comparison to Bodyshop cream and it looks the same. 

The top one is from this cream and the lower one is from Bodyshop

On top of that, I also notice that the cream's fragrance is not strong and the color is not shiny white.

Moving on to the license number, I am a bit relieved that it has its license number although in Chinese and it doesnt tell me anything, but at least, one assurance from Government.

Now, it contains a lot of ingredients, 57 in totals.

Natural ingredients, there are 10 of them as below. Unfortunately, I can't copy and paste as table here, so you have to bear with me with picture format.

What I like best is it has quite many natural ingredients. I dont really know that snail's slime can be used as skincare ... lol. And not only that, sericin which is extracted from silkworms as well. And it turns out that shea butter has a cool name, which is Butyrospermum Parkii .... lol.

Another ingredient which I like best too, was Disodium EDTA which has the characteristics of removing metal such as mercury from your blood.

Now coming to the other ingredients, it has 30 other chemical ingredients mainly as emollient, conditioning and emulsifier which is considered non harmful.

And lastly, 15 other ingredients which may be harmful for us.

I am very intimidated with Methylparaben and Quartz. It says that it may lead to DNA damage and quartz can be human carcinogen, i.e. can cause cancer. As for the rest, we may be able to handle it by routinely wash our face before bed time. Luckily as a muslim, you have to pray 5 times a day in which you have to wash your face, so hopefully the chemicals doesnt really stick in my face and become less harmful.

Nonetheless, given that they dont disclose how much % the chemicals is, I'd rather not to buy again and will try to find other skincare which has less chemicals but less expensive too.