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The hottest topics in the personal care industry will be discussed at in-cosmetics Asia this year, and few are more on trend than halal products. Regi...

Over the last three years, the professional hair care industry has been a witness to the rapidly increasing interest of male consumers in using profes...

Polymers based on the silicon atom in combination with oxygen, silicones find their origin in the work of Berzelius who isolated this element in 1824....

ECHA has just published its proposal to update the Community rolling action plan (CoRAP) for 2017-2019. The draft plan contains 117 substances propose...

The regulation 2016/1867 of 20 October 2016, published in on 21 October, is amending the regulation 3199/93 and setting up a single common denaturing ...

What should be done to place a cosmetic product on the EurAsian Economic Community’s market? Which requirements must be met, in particular in terms of...

Is there a saturation of red, a dictatorship of good taste? Is it the resurgence of the gothic or Twilight style among the younger population? Are we ...

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 DGCCRF (Direction générale de la concurrence, de la consommation et de la répression des fraudes) has just published a recall notice for the Cupca...

Where and how do consumers buy their cosmetics? How do they go to and fro between physical stores and online networks? What changes should distributio...

OTC or cosmetic, Drug Facts, Broad Spectrum, UVA logo, PA, UVA/UVB protection ration… If there is a category of cosmetic products for which regulatory...

The recent US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decision to ban certain chemical ingredients in antibacterial soaps comes after years of considerable...

Following the decisions taken by the United States, France and United Kingdom, and and more recently by Korea, Taiwan now schedules the ban of plastic...

The second edition of the Cosmetic 360 show organized by the Cosmetic Valley was held last October 13-14, 2016, at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. I...

Russia and its neighbours form an economic union where regulations governing cosmetics are enforced on a harmonized basis.  The registration procedure...

Any physical environment, whatever its nature (except if it does not contain water), may be characterized by its degree of acidity or alkalinity, meas...

Emulsion stability, product customisation, K-beauty and paraben alternatives go under the microscope at in-cosmetics Asia. Top beauty specialists will...

What if wearing mascara every day provided benefits to our lashes? At least, that is the promise made by many new mascaras following the multifuncti...

OTC or cosmetic, Drug Facts, Broad Spectrum, UVA logo, PA, UVA/UVB protection ration… If there is a category of cosmetic products for which regulatory...

The preservative Polyaminopropyl biguanide (PHMB) at a maximum concentration of 0.1%, water-soluble Zinc salts used in oral products, the fragrance Ac...

COSMOS signature will become mandatory for all new organic cosmetic products as of 1st January 2007. This European standard will be materialized by a ...

Some substances have particularly marked the history of science and technology and have left an indelible mark. This is the case, for example, of the ...

South Korea has just transmitted to WTO a draft proposition aimed to amend its Regulation on Safety Standards of Cosmetics. On the agenda: the ban of ...