The Technical Regulation on the safety of cosmetic products adopted as part of the Customs Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, which will take effect in July 2012 should simplify the (...)
The European Commission should eventually decide to leave the door open to some animal testing by granting exceptions to the absolute prohibition scheduled in 2013. Pending confirmation, animal (...)
The implementation of the new European Regulation on cosmetic products, which will come into force in July 2013, was the focus of discussions at the 9th Congress of Perfumes and Cosmetics held in (...)
Dr. Sylvain-Romain Cotte, a specialist in cosmetic regulations, founder and director of SRC Consulting, is about to launch a new company, to facilitate the accomplishment of regulatory (...)
Based on new scientific data, the French Health Products Safety Agency (Afssaps) recommends lowering the maximum allowed concentration of aluminium in cosmetic products. However, no conclusive (...)
The European Union is about to amend its regulations concerning the use of parabens in cosmetic products. The initial draft should be amended to reflect the opinion recently issued by the SCCS on (...)
After a long consultation period, the European Commission has proposed a definition of nanomaterials. The goal is to identify clearly substances that will be subject to specific attention in (...)
Cosmetics containing parabens and intended for children under three years of age do not pose any health risks according to the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS), who however draws (...)
After coming to a decision on the liability of search engines (and the most popular of them Google) regarding the use of trade marks on the Internet, it is now on online marketplaces that the (...)
Australia’s Parliament has passed a new law that simplifies the regulation of cosmetic ingredients. So far in Australia, the regulation of ingredients used in cosmetic products has been (...)
Alternatives to the few tests on animals that remain authorised for cosmetic ingredients will not be available by the final ban scheduled in 2013. However, the European Commission says not to (...)
The French Agency for the Safety of Health Products (AFSSAPS) has decided to ban an ultraviolet filter that is suspected to behave as an endocrine disruptor. The 3-benzylidene-camphor (CAS: (...)
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned two L’Oréal cosmetics ads featuring, following complaints by a Member of the Parliament that they had been digitally manipulated. A Help (...)
Endocrine disruptors are once again under French parliamentarians’ watchful eyes. After the controversy that followed the vote of a bill calling for a ban in consumer goods, they are now (...)
The updated version of the Safe Cosmetics Act, which was reintroduced in the House of Representatives at the end of June, is meeting harsh criticism from the cosmetics industry. According to its (...)
Which airless for which formula? Review of a day full of information and exchanges organized by Premium Beauty News, in cooperation with Mulon Conseil, on January 26, 2011 in Paris. The benefits of airless systems are numerous and it is translated in the strong progress of their sales, +15% a year on average. Two main technical (...)
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Lightweight carton boards from fresh Nordic forest fibres are a key component of M-real’s strategy to provide its customers with high-performance, cost efficient and environmental-friendly (...)
For M-real Consumer Packaging, Europe’s leading supplier of high quality folding boxboards, there is no doubt that luxury can go hand in hand with sustainability. The Finnish cartonboard (...)
