(WHTM) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers have seized nearly $30,000 worth of counterfeit skin creams and Sharpie pens in Pennsylvania.

According to the CBP, the four separate shipments of counterfeit cosmetics would be worth $28,550 if they were real. CBP officers seized the shipments in late February and in early March.

CBP officers said they seized 50 boxes of counterfeit SkinCeuticals Triple Lipid Restore anti-aging cream shipped to an address in Allentown and 50 boxes of counterfeit Clinique Smart Clinical Repair Wrinkle Correcting Serum cream shipped to Whitehall, Pennsylvania.

Officers also seized 3,000 counterfeit Sharpie pens heading from China to Birdsboro on Feb. 26.

On February 27, 2025, CBP officers separately seized 50 boxes of counterfeit Estee Lauder high-end anti-aging creams sent from China to an address in Whitehall, Pa., according to the CBP.

The latest seizure occurred on March 1, 2025, when CBP officers intercepted 60 boxes of Estee Lauder Resilience Multi-Effect Moisturizer Tri-Peptide Face and Neck Crème shipped from Hong Kong to Allentown.

“The global marketplace has allowed unscrupulous vendors to peddle counterfeit consumer goods as authentic products to unsuspecting consumers, and profit handsomely while placing consumers’ health and safety at risk,” said Cleatus P. Hunt, Jr., CBP’s Area Port Director for the Area port of Philadelphia.

Counterfeit cosmetics often contain chemicals that can cause cancer and other skin diseases, posing a serious health issue, according to the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center.