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Here is the third (and last) part of our special focus on the innovative formulas showcased for the Cosmetagora Formulation Award organized at the 9th...

Beware, The Pore Connection is coming! Cleansers/makeup removers, lotions, patches, peelings, masks, creams… this spring will mark the consecration of...

The European Union has just transmitted to WTO a draft Regulation aimed at allowing the use of MBBT (Methylene bis-benzotriazolyl tetramethylbutylphen...

The ARPP (French Advertising Self-Regulatory Organization) has just confirmed it in a press release: as from January 1, 2017, the indication ‘Photogra...

One of those sad, grey days of January, the pride of the cosmetics industry gathered in Paris to discuss a highly topical issue. Kindly invited by the...

La Cosmétothèque offers you today to retrace an adventure, a project that carried within it many ferments of innovation… that confirmed brands are pur...

50 laboratories, mainly cosmetic ingredient suppliers, had entered the lists for the Cosmétagora Formulation Award: the prizes were attributed at the ...

Ukraine has just transmitted to WTO a draft norm aimed to amend microbiological qualitative and quantitative limits for finished cosmetic products. Th...

The notion of thermal baths and thermal water-based treatments is very old: it dates back to Ancient Greece. As a guarantee of skin beauty, thermal wa...

From now on, you will find quite surprising ingredients in the composition of nail varnish, like radish, manioc, or potato… Everyone knows that right ...

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 European Union has just transmitted to WTO a draft regulation aimed at restricting the use of Zinc oxide as a colorant in uncoated non-nano form i...

Just like every year, the Cosmétagora show organized by the SFC (French Society of Cosmetology) on January 10-11 celebrated cosmetic formula innovatio...

You take care of what you love; when your skin struggles to produce enough lipid to keep it moist, then it is time for you to give and extra hand to...

It is in the name of"non-compliance and significant breaches" that the ANSM has just sent Nature & Découvertes an injunction to bring its Toussus-...

The SCCS has just published its Opinions on the safety of two cosmetic preservatives, the Polyaminopropyl biguanide (PHMB) and the Ethylzingerone - Hy...

Everyone knows it under the name ‘Task Force Packaging’. The working group created to draft guidelines to help perform the safety assessment of cosmet...

Like many others, the cosmetics industry is the victim of counterfeiting. In addition to being often badly crafted, these imitations expose consumers ...

On 6 October 2016, during its plenary meeting, the SCCS adopted the final versions of its Opinions on two preservatives – Phenoxyethanol and EcoG+ – a...

There is no doubt they are the quickest way to remove makeup (well, you still need to wash them yourself or in the washing machine afterwards). Softer...

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 ...

At the regulatory congress organized by the Cosmetic Valley in Chartres, France, in November 2016, Sophie Roques-Violin and Vanessa Picot, both from t...

The performance of a sunscreen product and the level of its SPF do not only depend on the mixture of UV-filters in the formula. That is what Laurent B...

Ukraine has just transmitted to WTO a draft technical regulation based on the European Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009. There is no indication on when ...