All articles in chronological order

The NPD Group, specialized in market surveys, has just released its results on the beauty selective market sales in 2012. The French market is steady ...

The French Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament (ANSM) is brand-new. Launched by a 29 December 2011 law, it replaced the French Agency for the s...

In June 2012, the European Scientific Committee for the Consumer Safety (SCCS) released an Opinion in which it concluded that methylene glycol, used i...

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 € 815 millions, Germany is the major market of organic cosmetics in Europe, and is one of the largest ones in the world1. A pioneer in this sector,...

Awarded on January 22 by Fleur Pellerin, the French Minister in command of SMEs, innovation and digital economy, the INPI Trophies (INPI comes for The...

Potentially harmful substances and principle of precaution are not good friends. Especially when the former are more and more questioned by the consum...

The pleasant odor of oranges, the freshness of a sea breeze or the warm smell of wood - all these impressions are connected to a variety of positive e...

The third section of the Annex I requires to provide the microbiological specifications of the ingredients and of the finished product… The European C...

Second part of the Safety Report: the aim here is to provide the exhaustive data allowing specifications, both for the ingredients and the finished pr...

The Opinion had caused some buzz and concern among perfumers and cosmetics manufacturers: the European Scientific Committee for Consumer Safety (SCCS)...

For the fourth time, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), responsible for the classification of substances under the REACH Regulation, recommends the...

The REACH Regulation, implemented on 1 June 2007, enters a new phase this year, with the immediate registration of substances manufactured or imported...

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...

Laboratoires Filorga, a company with a long expertise in aesthetic medicine, announces it has bought 48% of the shares of the MOSTLeds capital. MOSTLe...

While "made for men" beauty products are now mainstream, latest research from Mintel reveals that online retailing is the ultimate shopping channel fo...

I owe this month's post to my friend Patrice André, with whom we recently had a very interesting discussion, followed by an exchange on a rather parti...

First data to be provided in the Cosmetic Product Safety Report, as detailed in Annex I to the Cosmetics Regulation: the qualitative and quantitative ...

An article and an annex of the Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009 display the principles of requirements in terms of the assessment of the safety of cosme...

On the 6 July, 2012, the SCCS released its Guidance on the safety assessment of nanomaterials in cosmetics. A sixty-two page document, which Clara Arr...

The decision dates back to mid-December. Clarins confirms it now: Kibio will be “stopped” mid-February. The time needed to manage the layoff plan for ...

A crisis may occur any time. The topic is not the economic crisis, but a media hype, a crisis in the consumers’ confidence, an accidental crisis on a ...

Time has gone when nanos shall be declared. Further to the declaration on the European level, as required in the Regulation on cosmetics, another one ...

Monitoring the market and its practices is one of the duties of the French ANSM. Sometimes working in cooperation with the DGCCRF, it commands inspect...