Mario Badescu Skin Cream Injury Lawsuits

What’s Going On?

Attorneys working with ClassAction.org are speaking with Mario Badescu customers about their legal rights after two undisclosed steroids were allegedly found in the company’s Control and Healing Creams. They have reason to believe that customers who suffered adverse effects – including skin irritation and abnormal hair growth – after using the now-discontinued skin creams may be able to go after the manufacturer for medical bills and emotional suffering.

What’s Believed to Be Causing the Injuries?

It is believed that two topical steroids in the creams (hydrocortisone and triamcinolone acetonide) are causing the adverse reactions. Triamcinolone acetonide is only available through a prescription, yet a lawsuit filed against Mario Badescu alleges that the amount contained in the company’s Control and Healing creams was even higher than what is available through prescription.

Mario Badesco stopped making the Control and Healing Creams in 2013. This occurred several months after the South Korean government issued a recall of the Healing Cream. When the products were discontinued in the United States, users allegedly went through steroid withdrawal.

The suit claims that these two steroids are addictive and not suitable for even medium, yet along long-term use.

Steroid Withdrawal Leads to Itching, Burning Skin, Irritation

The following side effects have been reported among users who say they went through steroid withdrawal after stopping use of the Control and Healing Creams:

The lawsuit claims that some users have been left scarred and “permanently sensitized” to steroids – even those that become medically necessary for short-term use. Furthermore, because Mario Badescu didn’t disclose the steroids in its products, patients were unable to be properly diagnosed and treated by their doctors, according to the lawsuit.

Mario Badescu Users Report Side Effects Online

Here are several users’ accounts of the serious side effects they experienced after using the skin creams:

“I thought it was a Holy Grail product and every time I stopped using it, my skin would become a mess, and I would immediately go back to it and it would look better. Then I ran out completely, and couldn’t find it anywhere. My skin quickly became a disaster – a red bumpy, itchy, miserable rash all over. No wonder. It turns out the product contained undisclosed corticosteroids…What I thought were breakouts the cream was controlling, were actually classic rebound reactions from stopping the steroids.”

“I suffered from massive steroid withdrawal symptoms. Itchy, blotchy, even rash- and patch-like symptoms and hives. Classic steroid withdrawal symptoms. I am now under the care of a dermatologist, and getting off of this is like weaning off of any other toxic substance. It is difficult.”

“Many people who were long (even not-so-long) users of the original Control Cream suffered extremely bad reactions when they suddenly stopped using the topical corticosteroids it contained. My sister and I were two such people. The skin reactions we’ve been dealing with are far, far worse than any irritations we may have once used Control Cream to treat. We are both currently under the care of a dermatologist – I have severe Perioral Dermatitis as a direct result of topical steroid use (that I used unwittingly in the CC all those years!).”

These reviews were posted on MakeupAlley.com.

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