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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...

The European Union has just transmitted to WTO a draft regulation aimed at prohibiting or restricting the use in cosmetic products of Tagetes erecta, ...

If algae have been used for ages in the food industry, they are now very popular in cosmetics as well. Little attractive at first sight, they are actu...

According to a research from MarkMonitor®, specialized in enterprise brand protection, counterfeit goods still pose a significant risk to the health o...

They are always forgotten… but this summer, they are in the spotlight as part of the ‘mask mania’! Soaked socks to be adjusted on the feet with adhesi...

ANSM has just published a decision to suspend the distribution and placing on the market of Bioaromes cosmetic products. To the French National Agency...

SPF30, SPF50, SPF50+… A common assumption is that the protection they provide is not that different from what gross figures suggest. At the Sun Protec...

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

On 6 July 2017, Sweden notified the WTO a draft regulation aimed to ban the placing on the market of rinse-off cosmetics that contain plastic particle...

The ninth European edition of the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit will be hosted in Paris on 6-8th November in Paris. It comprises four dedicated confere...

Today, the notion of high skin sensitivity in adults is well-known, but in children, no study had demonstrated it so far. Out of almost 700,000 public...

It will be on everyone’s lips this fall… and it does sound the knell of gloss! More creamy and comfortable, liquid lipstick plays with contradictions....

On June 29, 2017, ANSM (French National Agency of Medicine and Health Products Safety) invited cosmetics safety assessors to their premises for an inf...

According to the European Union, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a ‘concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in ...