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[video] Ensuring Safety, Efficacy and Compliance of Hyper-Personalized Cosmetics

Jan 7th, 2026

Rachel Grabenhofer, Cosmetics & Toiletries

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During the IFSCC 2025 Congress, held Sept. 15-18, 2025, in Cannes, Thomas Navarro, senior director of scientific affairs at the brand Prose, a manufacturer of personalized cosmetics, presented the poster, "A Comprehensive Methodology for Ensuring the Safety, Quality, Efficacy and Regulatory Compliance of Hyper-personalized Cosmetics."

The goal was to develop a model where one product could represent millions of formulations but still only require one regulatory-compliant file for all formulations.

As he demonstrates in this video, the three pillars include:

the formulation architecture definition
risk-based testing plans and
the highest standards.

Watch now to learn more.

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