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To design, to manufacture and to market a cosmetic product so as to minimize its impact on our environment: this is no longer a trendy idea, more a st...

Two important organizations of the French "cosmetics world" have new managers. The Cosmetic Valley competitiveness cluster has elected as its Presiden...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is responsible of cosmetics in the USA, has issued new requirements about efficacy and labelling of suns...

It is more and more trendy, applied on teenagers’ hair as well as on their mothers’. The Brazilian straightening, said to be a natural and ideal care ...

Preservative-free cosmetics are always a cause for concern. A study, performed under the auspices of the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, a par...

An issue arose some years ago about the potential toxicity of nanomaterials for human health, especially when they are in cosmetic products. They are ...

Obviously, the Cosmetovigilance network extends in Europe as around the world. Norway has thus issued its first report on Adverse Effects from Cosmeti...

A baby’s skin requires specific cares and meticulous attentions; but do you know why? The skin of a very young child, even more an infant’s, has very ...

The American Environmental Working Group (EWG) and the Australian branch of Friends of the Earth both publish their updated sunscreen guides. Nanopart...

The logo of One Voice is well known; One Voice is an association working for the well-being of animals, which is a guarantee, especially in the cosmet...

Seal of approval awarded and controlled by One Voice, a French association working to promote the rights of animals in laboratories or in the wild, ci...

Skin ageing is an unavoidable phenomenon … Wrinkles and fine lines, as any other cutaneous change, are only an image on our face of the passing of tim...

The French "Lachaud Law", designed to ban Parabens (among several substances suspected of being endocrine disruptors), continues to spark off turmoil ...

The "Lachaud law", approved by the French Lower Chamber (Assemblée Nationale) on the 3rd of May 2011, which bans Parabens, Phthalates and Alkylphenols...

The cosmetic industry needs journalists to "market" its product to the public at large. Journalists need the contacts they have with the players of th...

Besides water, fats are the basis for numerous cosmetic products. Creams, body-lotions, serum, make-up, exfoliating agents, shower-gels and shampoos …...

The law is very short, with only one article: "Manufacturing, import, sales or any offer of products containing parabens, phthalates or alkylphenols a...

There are some types of kinds, some periods of the life, some age brackets … when our epidermis requires more cares, more specific, more focused on it...

For our babies, we want only the best. Further, as never before, we are ready to compromise with the principle of precaution. One is sure to do his be...

After the nuclear accident in the Fukushima-Daiichi power, plant and the nuclear contamination which ensued, some consumers worried, even in Europe: a...

In the cosmetics vocabulary, a serum has a fluid texture, and is more concentrated in active agents than a standard care product, for an increased eff...

A good news for all of you who have once been in the mood for designing their own cosmetics and selling them to the public at large, without any idea ...

A law hoped for approval by the French Parliament, an opinion by the European Scientific Committee on Consumers’ Safety (SCCS) in view of a further re...

A plasticizer softens and makes supple another substance that otherwise could not be easily deformed, spread or worked out. They are widely used for e...