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The title of Section 10 of Annex I may seem rather strange, since the first nine sections already require nothing more than information on the cosmeti...

Section 9 of Annex I to the Regulation is a direct result of the establishment of a harmonised cosmetovigilance system at European level. In practice,...

According to a consulting and research firm Kline & Company recent study, with the Chinese market boasting nearly 100% growth in 2012 and double-d...

Trendy in Japan and in the USA, the instrumental cosmetics arrives in France with new equipment, designed more for a daily use and a better efficiency...

The global personal care industry remains competitive despite the continued gloomy economic outlook. In 2011, for example, exports from the European m...

The toxicological profile of the substances is essential for the safety assessment of the finished product. These data are at the core of the reasonin...

Several types of undesirable effects may result from the use of a cosmetic product. They include irritation, intolerance or allergy reactions, which m...

Assessing the protection index of a sunscreen is essential, be it to display on the label the right SPF, or to comply with the one-to-three ratio requ...

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 global male grooming products market has rebounded back to its growth path with most significant growth occurring in Asian regions, with India in ...

Cosmed lets it know that a new body, a National Organism to collect and assign the apprenticeship tax (an OCTA, as per the French acronym) dedicated t...

The soon-to-come U’Cos Convention, organized in Brittany (France) by the Catholic University (UCO) in Guingamp, with the support of the technocluster ...

The fourth U’Cosmetics will be held in Guingamp (Brittany, France) on 21 March 2013. Both a Convention and a contest for students about Cosmetic Formu...

Late by eight months, the European Commission has released, on 5 February 2013, the REACH Review, a report on the implementation of the Regulation. A ...

After the estimation of exposure to the cosmetic product in its point 6, Annex I requires the calculation of the exposure to the substances it contain...

This Section 6 of Annex I is a direct result of the data provided in Section 5 concerning normal and reasonably foreseeable use, and also has a direct...

In France, the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines (ANSM) is not the only authority competent for cosmetics. The DGCCRF can also program inqui...

The legal fight has lasted for years, and has been studied by several French and European courts. It brought into conflict the cosmetics distributors ...

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...

Most of the actors of the cosmetic world are aware of the major changes involved by the Regulation 1223/2009, which will be implemented in full on 11 ...

The explosive growth in sales of professional nail care products outshined resilient but modest growth rates in other cosmetics categories, posting ov...

Organic cosmetics are ubiquitous in media, with an always positive green image. However, the sector is valued at 3% of the overall cosmetics market, a...

This section, which is fairly simple to formalise, is intended to describe the expected use of the product, but is an essential element to enable the ...

Section 4 of the Annex I deals with the purity of the product: the presence of impurities and traces, especially of prohibited substances, shall be as...