Ingredients:News

Measuring benzene in sunscreens: the Australian TGA shares its method

The TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration), which regulates cosmetic products in Australia, made available its analytical method for detecting and quantifying benzene residues in suncare products. Professionals are encouraged to use it as part of their routine quality control procedures.

Beauty goes green, but can you prove it? New rules on environmental claims take effect

The European Union initiated a set of legislative acts aimed at improving consumer protection and ensuring reliability sustainability-related declarations.

Rosin and its derivatives, propylparaben, and spearmint essential oil: ECHA’s RAC adopts its opinions

ECHA (the European Chemicals Agency) has just published the minutes of the 78th meeting of its RAC (Risk Assessment Committee), which took place in early September 2026. Opinions on several cosmetic ingredients were adopted, resulting in four classifications as reprotoxic and one as an environmental endocrine disruptor.

Consultation in Australia on 4-MBC

On 11 September 2026, the TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration), which regulates cosmetic products in Australia, launched a one-month consultation on the conditions of use for the UV filter 4-MBC (4-Methylbenzylidene Camphor).

IFRA 52: the end-of-consultation letter

On 31 August 2026, the IFRA (International Fragrance Association) issued its End-of-Consultation Letter on the 52nd Amendment to its Standards, the consultation period for which ended on 12 June.

Monday, July 4, 2022

The Consortium HE calls on regulatory authorities to review their position on essential oils

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For the past 10 years, the media have widely reported on the potentially allergenic properties of essential oils (EO). While the draft revisions of th...

Monday, June 27, 2022

Request to the SCCS to re-evaluate the safety of Titanium Dioxide

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Following the EFSA (European Food Safety Agency) opinion concluding that titanium dioxide was not considered safe as a food additive, the European Com...

Monday, June 27, 2022

Silver Zinc Zeolite: request for Opinion to the SCCS

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Following the submission of a safety dossier by industry, the European Commission has now asked the SCCS to assess the safety of Silver Zinc Zeolite, ...

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Proposed CLH classification for Tetrahydrofurfuryl Methacrylate

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On 14 June 2022, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) launched a consultation on a harmonised classification and labelling proposal from Austria for t...

Monday, June 20, 2022

Endocrine disrupting ingredients in cosmetics

The European Commission having concluded that the framework of Regulation 1223/2009 was sufficient to manage the risk that endocrine disruptors may re...

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

The European Commission publishes its new Recommendation on the definition of nanomaterials

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On 14 June 2022, the new Commission Recommendation on the definition of nanomaterial was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. This...

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Cosmetic ingredients containing aluminium

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Which cosmetic ingredients may contain aluminium? If it is easy to identify those whose INCI name contains the word “Aluminum”, others appear much mor...

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Global Bioenergies' biobased isododecane in L'Oréal formulations

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Less than two months after the commissioning of the Pomacle commercial production unit, Global Bioenergies has received its first orders totalling sev...

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Aluminium: the new (preliminary) Opinion of the SCCS

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Following the mandate given by the European Commission to the SCCS in May 2021 to extend the safety assessment of aluminium compounds to other product...

Thursday, June 2, 2022

Reminder: new hair dye bans/restrictions come into force

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On this 3 June 2022, new bans and restrictions under EU Regulation 2020/1683 come into force for several hair dye ingredients. This is the last stage ...

Monday, May 30, 2022

Corrigendum to Regulation 2022/692 (18th ATP of the CLP)

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On 25 May 2022, the Commission published a Corrigendum to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/692 of 16 February 2022, which constitutes the 18th ATP (Adap...

Monday, May 30, 2022

L'Oréal introduces "its biggest suncare innovation in 30 years"

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After 10 years of research, L’Oréal introduces UVMune 400 its breakthrough sun filtering technology that effectively protects the skin against insidio...