Blog For Cosmetic Professionals — EU Cosmetic Regulations

What Is The Best Way To Do An Ingredient List For Tablet Soap?

Posted by Colin Sanders on

Here's an issue that has come up a few times lately. How do list the ingredients on tablet soap?The reason for ingredient lists on cosmetics is to enable people who have allergies to particular chemicals to identify products that might give them a problem. This is a worthy objective, and to make sure that it is indeed effective there are rules that require companies to follow a standard format in the way they list those ingredients. This makes perfect sense, but there is a slight bug in the system. If you are adding an ingredient which reacts with another ingredient...

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New IFRA Guidelines Coming Into Force

Posted by Colin Sanders on

The 48th edition of the IFRA guidelines are now up on their website, and will be applicable to any new projects briefed after the 10th of September. I am not sure how strictly IFRA intend to police this particular date.  But in these days of Edward Snowden and Ashley Maddison I suppose it is quite possible they would be able to read your emails if they put their mind to it.  But seriously, you should at least be bearing them in mind from now on and preferably aiming to work to them.  I haven't yet plunged in, but will be...

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Acid Green 25

Posted by Colin Sanders on

  Colours are popular with consumers, but seem to get legislators a bit worked up.  It is almost as if the different governments have got together to make the naming systems and regulations as impenetrable as possible. I came across a good example of that today.   An american product had Green 5 listed on the pack.  Was this permitted in Europe? So the first question is what do we call Green 5 over here?  Well hopefully they were using the FDA approved Green 5.  That is what most cosmetic companies would be using.  There is a Solvent Green 5...

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