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Asia has inspired our health and well-being for thousands of years. Cosmetics continues to draw from it its most innovative ingredients or its most ex...

Latest cosmetics news in brief: The SCCS revises its Opinion about Methylene bis-benzotriazolyl tetramethylbutylphenol - “Belle et Bien” runs to fight...

It has been adopted by written procedure on 18 March 2013, and is open for comments until April 26, 2013. The SCCS has just released its Opinion on Me...

Sunscreens, spray cans, ingredients that shall come with warnings…: some mentions, listed in the regulation, are mandatory on the labels, with some cr...

We knew the main lines: they are now official and guidelines. In parallel with Regulation 655/2013 on Common Criteria regulating the use of cosmetic c...

Too much color kills color … Nowadays, the trend is to a “clean” and healthy nail, “glowy” and neat. Following the “BB” movement, being at the same ti...

Men’s grooming is booming. New products, strong growth of the Asian market and optimistic forecast for the emerging countries: all this is a solid pro...

Allantoin has all the key properties of an ideal cosmetic ingredient. It is biomimetic, as it is naturally present in the human body. It is also sooth...

This new logo will be mandatory as from January 1, 2015. But it is not too early to get ready: the logo is intended to help consumers identify recycla...

The Observatoire des Cosmétiques recently rightly focused on a very interesting class of ingredients, lipopeptides. In my opinion, it would be more ac...

This is the latest, and the least important, that was still lacking. After the nano Titanium dioxide, Zinc oxide, Carbon black … silica as nanoparticl...

Brightening Cream, Hand soap … You may have them in your cupboards. Maybe, you use them, still. Beware: they are dangerous, illegal, harmful … and are...

Zone of all vulnerabilities and all expectations, the eye contour area is overinvested by luxury cosmetic brands this fall. Generic or ultra-targeted ...

At the end of an exciting journey to the heart of the skin, this book, based on the most recent scientific knowledge, tells us how to effectively figh...

While a public consultation is open about the possible restriction for use of an MIT/MCIT blend, now the MIT alone is concerned by the request for its...

When thinking “compliance to regulation", European requirements are not enough, especially if export is a target. China, India, Morocco, Africa and Mi...

After the before-summer scrubbing masks, here come the autumn recovery masks! As new “must-have”, the night or morning masks challenge the specific ey...

For fragrance ingredients, this concerns the Butylphenyl methylpropional, for which IFRA recommends specific concentrations, depending on the type of ...

A Brazilian study surveyed female students, examining their habits about make-up. Conclusion: women tend to continue using expired make-up, and these ...

Figures are self-explaining: from 2005 to 2012, the number of e-commerce websites has been multiplied by eight, to a total of 117,500 active websites....

The scientific debate over the risks linked to using aluminum in cosmetic products is to come to a new phase. Following the evaluation by the French A...

In the cosmetic world, the trend is: reformulate. Since three years, Cosmepar, a laboratory specialised in tests and analyses for cosmetics manufactur...

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...

Euromonitor International has just released its overall report on the latest trends and the development of the beauty and personal-care market in Fran...