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At the core of the European Cosmetics Regulation, which is implemented since 11 July 2013, a brand-new role: the "Responsible Person" (RP). His appoin...

The "Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on cosmetic products" is a recast of the Cosmetics...

Notifying cosmetic products to the European Commission is one of the major innovations of the Cosmetics Regulation (Regulation CE N° 1223/2009), imple...

They are practiced after every bath and every diaper change… which can happen 6 to 10 times a day during the first months of a child's life. And on a ...

Titanium Dioxide nanoparticles are used in consumer goods such as paints, self-cleaning coatings, medicines or cosmetics. They are often present in su...

An invasion of BB Cream in the horizon (BB comes for Blemish Balm, an anti-imperfections balm) … Are we going to be all victims? It is questionable. A...

The Certificate of Free Sale (CFS) is a real passport, an open sesame without which it is sometimes impossible to export cosmetics. Required by many c...

Their daily business: standards, controls, checks, chemical tests, analyses, certifications. Their name is unknown on the labels, and yet, they work f...

Widely used in many industries and present in many consumer products, nanomaterials, nevertheless, are a concern, especially due to their possible eff...

The question had been asked by Denmark, which had decided to go farther than the requirements of the European regulation and to ban, on its territory,...

Regulation is a regular topic, nowadays, throughout the cosmetic industry, thanks to the future European Regulation enforcement. Is it a positive step...

The Natexpo exhibition, a professional show about organic, dietary and ecological products, is traditionally the opportunity to bestow prizes on the m...

The terms of the judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union allow Laboratoires Pierre Fabre to argue for an individual exemption to prohib...

The Cosmetic Valley is the first competitiveness cluster dedicated to perfumes and cosmetics in the world. These words may seem a bit abstract for out...

On Thursday 6 October 2011, the 2nd Round Table on Fair Trade was held in Paris, set up by and for the professionals of the Perfumes and Cosmetics fie...

Mainly made of silica, it can be recycled ad infinitum. Safe, ecological and sophisticated, it is the ideal material of the packaging of our creams, o...

The motto sometimes heard is, it is better to be wary of all the ingredients listed under capital letters in the list of ingredients of our cosmetics....

Fair Trade International gathers 25 organizations working to promote to secure a better deal for producers.

The Nude is the topic of face care in this "after-vacation" period. This new generation of care, which "make the skin perfect"(we may call them "skin-...

Adopted at the General Assembly held in June 2011, the new charter drawn up by the Professional Association of Ecological and Organic Cosmetics was pr...

The term pH comes for Hydrogen potential, and is written pH. It defines whether a water-based product is acidic or basic.

A family of cosmetics ingredients. A buffering agent is used to stabilise ou adjust the pH of a cosmetic product.

The 2011 Beyond Beauty Paris session, an exhibition and conferences dedicated to cosmetics, was held 12 to 14 September. Laurence Wittner, a co-founde...

This question is more and more essential for cosmetics manufacturers. It is heard in professional conferences/exhibitions as well as in Research and D...