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Basics:The language of labels

No "Aluminum salt-free" claim on a deodorant!Subscribers only

Is it possible to claim the absence of aluminium salts on the packaging and in the commercial documents of a deodorant? The answer is to be found in the rules governing cosmetic claims… and it is very clear, as Anne Dux, Director of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs of the FEBEA, said at the January 2019 information meeting on the new rules applicable to cosmetic claims as from 1 July 2019.

Batch numbers and bar codes: what do they mean?Subscribers only

These series of numbers and initials may seem quite obscure, and therefore pretty useless. And yet, if they are mandatory on cosmetics labels, it means they do have role to play, that of giving information. And all consumers can understand and learn how to use them, whenever needed.

Evaluation criteria

Formula, tolerance, safety, pleasure, labelling, price… A list of six criteria has been defined by our experts to evaluate the different aspects of cosmetics. Checklist.

Cosmetics labelling as understood by the ConsumerSubscribers only

Sales points, tests results, logos, many mentions, claims, aspects and colour codes, list of ingredients … how does the consumer sees, and understands, the label of a cosmetic product? This is the question asked by Laurence Wittner, the Editor-in-Chief of the CosmeticOBS-L’Observatoire des Cosmétiques website, as a speaker of the FEBEA conference, on 8 October 2012. Here is her document, almost as...

Made inSubscribers only

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 may be misleading, or may lead to not “feeling” the “subtleties” allowed by the regulation. This is the case with the “Made in." Explanations.