I might understand if it was drugs, or even some kind of woo-woo herbal concoction, but cosmetics? I would not expect people to get so attached to one particular formulation that they’d be willing to pay excessive smuggling fees to obtain it.
…Most people, to be sure.
ETA: Wouldn’t have something to do with the ol’ Red Mercury, would it?
ETA2: If it’s a matter of skin lightening, as per the article @ejeffrey linked to, it takes on a much nastier dimension.
