The latest K-beauty craze is made from dead Americans' skin. Now it's aiming for the US.
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A beauty treatment driving tens of millions of dollars in sales around the globe is now aiming for the US market. It's made from dead Americans' skin.
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Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BIA hot, new beauty treatment driving tens of millions of dollars in sales around the globe is now aiming for the US market. Its unusual ingredient: skin from dead Americans.Each year, tens of thousands of Americans donate bodily tissue upon their deaths, generally by checking a box at a motor vehicle department or through an authorization made by a loved one. Over the past few years, tens of millions of dollars' worth of donated skin has traveled from American tissue banks to biotech companies in South Korea, the beauty capital of the world. There, among other uses, it is turned into injectable beauty treatments.The maker of the market-leading Korean brand said last week it has signed a distribution contract to introduce its skin-derived injection to the US market next year. It isn't clear whether the product can be sold in the US without approval from federal regulators.Business Insider traced the tissue supply chain to understand how donor tissue from,…