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Innovation is at the core of the today’s cosmetic, up to the point when one wonders what the latter would be without the former … Active ingredients, ...

French National Agency for the safety of medicines and health products

French Health Products Safety Agency.

A new entity, the French National Agency for the safety of medicine, health products and cosmetics (ANSM) replaces the French Agency for the safety of...

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...

October 2011: the Afssaps completes its risk assessment on the use of aluminium in cosmetic products. And recommends limiting the concentration to 0.6...

It is in cosmetics, as it is … everywhere. Almost never pure in nature, it is present as salts, mainly, and stirs up controversy. Many do not know wha...

It was sometimes deplored that for natural and organic cosmetics, we did not have an independent reference system, supported by an administrative auth...

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...

Shower and shampoo one’s hair: is that so different for a woman or for a man? The movements look the same, yes … though the needs of our skins may be ...

A study by the Center of Research and information of the Consumers Organisations (CRIOC, a Belgian not-for-profit Foundation) gives a non-waited for r...

We all know that the list of ingredients is mandatory on a cosmetic product’s label. We know the main principles… but it is not that easy to be fully ...

The SCCS was asked whether Soytrimonium Chloride may be used in hair dyes products for other purposes than preservation. Its opinion has just been rel...

Journalists call this topic an “evergreen". Indeed, it is the kind of topic that comes back every year at the same moment (spring), and that could be ...

It is not yet available on the market that it creates a genuine "buzz" and gives cause for comments … often very excited. It, it is Naturalis, “the ap...

Following the public consultation, opened until February 10, it has been adopted during the plenary session held on March 27. The SCCS opinion on nitr...

Water is not only a cosmetic ingredient. Apart its importance in formulae, it is also an important element of the manufacturing process. When entering...

Widely used in sunscreens, in daily anti-ageing cares with SPF, but also in lip’s balms, shower-gels and body care oils, Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate, ...

It is now an ingredient that can no longer be ignored in hair care: shampoos, conditioners, masks or serums "enriched with keratin". It is the basis o...

They have been adopted during the plenary meeting, on March 22, 2012, and are open for comments until May 7. The SCCS has just released seven new opin...

A general trend is to understand the mentions on a label in a comprehensive manner, and to give them a meaning that is driven by common sense. This ma...

A “Made in” may boost sales…especially when followed by the word “France”. It may also be mandatory (but not always). When on the label of a cosmetic,...

Eurostaf, the survey, advice and sector specialist firm that belongs to the daily Les Echos group, releases a study about the French retailing network...

The "without" cosmetic. That was the topic of the 3rd edition of U’cosmetics, both a conference and a competition, held in Guigamp (Brittany), on Marc...