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Last October, the professionals of the "well-being" sector were requested to give their comments on the standard draft designed to professionalize the...

A simple lab-based skin test which eliminates the risk of adverse reactions to new drugs, cosmetics and household chemicals has been developed by a Ne...

Cosmetics packaging has made its grand entrance in the Cosmetics Regulation, which will be implemented in its entirety on 11 July 2013. The French FEB...

Highly potential markets like the Middle East, India, Russia, or South Africa will meet the brands presented by Cosmeeting Business Meetings during tw...

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...

A team of Italian researchers has elucidated the involvement of limonene and linalyl acetate in cytotoxicity induced by bergamot essential oil in huma...

Dated 24 May 2013, the European Regulation 483/2013 introduces restrictions for use for Laureth-9 (Polidocanol) and adds it to the Annex III of the Co...

The French Advertising Regulation Authority (ARPP, after its French Acronym) has just released its first sector-specific assessment dedicated to cosme...

It is now as a habit: Cosmed invites you in Paris for two days of convention, in June. In the agenda of the June 11 Regulatory Meetings: an exhaustive...

Potato skin cream, hair straightener … You may have them in your cupboards. Maybe, you use them, still. Beware: they are dangerous, illegal, harmful …...

While the latest surveys show that the organic cosmetics market does not meet its expectations with consumers, new launches are labelled as fine weath...

Released in the Journal Officiel of the French Republic, this decree, 2013-414, is designed to organize "the transparency of the advantages given by c...

Sun damage is the most important environmental factor associated with malignant melanoma. To address the health threat, as well as the economic burden...

Following the update of the 3-Year Action Plan for the evaluation of chemical substances (CoRAP), after the REACH Regulation, the French Ministry of E...

ICEA (Institute of Certification for Ethics and the Environment) is an Italian certification body that inspects and certifies natural and organic cosm...

I'm bouncing back on a few recent publications to talk about a subject that is close to my heart and that I don't think is talked about very much, or ...

Hair dye manufacturers are on notice: the cure for gray hair is coming. That's right, the need to cover up one of the classic signs of aging with chem...

It has just been released by the European Commission, and is in line with the European approach in favor of a "Single Market for Green Products" and w...

They are present in many cosmetics, especially those claiming to be refreshing, invigorating, purifying or relaxing. Isolated or contained in essentia...

Is the traditional body scrubbing performed in the shower, followed by the dry application of a moisturising lotion coming to its end? Revived, the bo...

A new Regulation, number 344/2013 dated 4 April, modifies the Regulation 1223/2009, so-called Cosmetics Regulation. The topic of this modification is ...

SANTE Naturkosmetic or Henna hair dyes … You may have them in your cupboards. Maybe, you use them, still. Beware: they are dangerous, illegal, harmful...

Being the last one of the actors involved in the life of a cosmetic product, an "end user" is precisely defined in the Cosmetics Regulation (Regulatio...

A withdrawal of a cosmetic product is precisely defined in the Cosmetics Regulation (Regulation 1223/2009 – implemented in full on 11 July 2013).