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The global fashion retailer Asos announced the launch of its very first in-house makeup collection. It will include 46 products that will go on sale o...

In a few weeks, the Natural & Organic Cosmetics Conference will open its doors in Berlin for the anniversary edition. The Conference will be held ...

Putting on perfume is a daily, even routine gesture, but it reveals so much of our personality. At least that is what Aptar, world leader in distribut...

If they have always covered the seashore and carpeted the seabed, today, algae also make manufacturers happy. They have been popular in the food indus...

Procter & Gamble is embracing the cultural shift towards transparency within the beauty industry by pledging to share all its fragrance ingredient...

You may have them in your cupboards. Maybe, you use them, still. Beware: they are dangerous, illegal, harmful… and are the subject of a recall or ban ...

Want some naturalness and eco-friendly simplicity? Swedish brands will make you get back to basics. Their names are often quite hard to pronounce for ...

Under European regulations, about 1,400 substances are banned in cosmetics. Theoretically, they are prohibited in all product formulas. In practice, s...

On June 29, 2017, at the meeting organized by ANSM (French National Agency of Medicine and Health Products Safety), which gathered cosmetics safety as...

Everyone knows the cosmetics industry is one of the most flourishing in the world. However, trends and consumers’ desires vary from one country to ano...

It is a love story that is unlikely to end between the world of beauty and algae. Well-known for their virtues on the skin, algae also help create inn...

You may have them in your cupboards. Maybe, you use them, still. Beware: they are dangerous, illegal, harmful… and are the subject of a recall or ban ...

The 10th edition of the Natural & Organic Cosmetics Conference, to be held September 26-27 in Berlin, will focus on the future-oriented strategic ...

Asia’s ageing population continues to grow at an unprecedented rate, and the beauty industry has taken notice of this shift in demographics. New resea...

Regulation 2017/1410 of 2 August 2017, published in Official Journal of the European Union on 3 August, amends Annexes II (prohibited substances) and ...

Regulation 2017/1413 of 3 August 2017, published in Official Journal of the European Union on 4 August, amends Annex IV (colorant) of Cosmetics Regula...

On 31 July 2017, the United Kingdom notified the WTO a draft regulation aimed to ban microbeads as an ingredient in rinse-off personal care products i...

These preservatives, like many others, regularly draw the attention of the cosmetics media. For several years, they have been cause for worry and the ...

We know it by various names, including Lyral®, but on cosmetics labels it is officially listed as Hydroxyisohexyl 3-cyclohexene carboxaldehyde. Deemed...

You may have them in your cupboards. Maybe, you use them, still. Beware: they are dangerous, illegal, harmful… and are the subject of a recall or ban ...

You may have them in your cupboards. Maybe, you use them, still. Beware: they are dangerous, illegal, harmful… and are the subject of a recall or ban ...

In an Opinion issued to manufacturers on July 24, 2017, the French National Agency for Medicines and Health Products Safety (ANSM) reminds manufacture...

Of course, electronic devices are not cosmetics, but we cannot but talk about this booming trend set to spread everywhere after summer (cleansing and ...

At the 2017 Cosmetics Europe Week, Ildiko Szalai, of Euromonitor, provided an overview of the cosmetics market condition on the global level. Beyond s...