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The Issues Common With Trending Natural Ingredients: The Pitfalls of Naturals

The ever-evolving nature of skin care presents ongoing challenges for marketing claims and labeling. Here are a few things to watch out for.

The 'Skin Facts!' Initiative aims to help consumers understand the potential risks and to help identify whether the products they purchase contain these harmful ingredients.

FDA Issues Warnings, Pushes Consumer Education of OTC Skin Lightening Products

The FDA is once again cracking down on companies selling skin lightening products containing hydroquinone or mercury. Its public health campaign, Skin Facts!, urges consumers to get educated on skin care ingredients.

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Could the US Virgin Islands Be Next to Ban Octinoxate and Oxybenzone?

A bill banning the sale, importation and distribution of certain sunscreen ingredients in personal care is making its way through the U.S. Virgin Islands' legislature.

China could be phasing out animal testing for many cosmetic categories.

Is China Ending Pre-market Animal Testing for Cosmetics?

Hair dye, sunscreen and select other products would be exempted.

China Sees Contamination and Product Recall Issues with Exports

China is undoubtedly one of the biggest cosmetic and personal care manufacturers in the world. However, it has been experiencing product recall and contamination issues with exported goods over the last six months.

Establishing the Dividing Line: Is Your Product a Drug?

To avoid regulatory penalties, a company developing an OTC product must institute properly administered shelf-life testing programs as an integral part of its product development and marketing efforts.

Anti-polllution claims are only made by about 1% of beauty products on the market, representing a massive opportunity for market innovation.

Is Your Brand Making Anti-pollution Claims? Read This.

New free in-depth report outlines the growth opportunities and challenges of infusing beauty brands with anti-pollution claims.

The Regulatory Interface: When is it a Cosmetic and When a Drug?

Both the cosmetic industry and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have had a long and interesting history. FDA’s history began in 1906 with the enactment of the Pure Food and Drug Act. This was the first attempt to regulate the safety of products (or additives). For almost 100 years Congress has set the standards and published them in the United States Code (USC). FDA and other federal agencies promulgate regulations through notice and comment rulemaking. Proposed regulations are published in the Federal Register (FR) and the public is given an opportunity to comment. The agencies then publish in the Federal Register final regulations together with a preamble discussing each comment. Industry and regulatory scientists eagerly follow these changes and access them on the Web. Final regulations are compiled in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).

'[Sunscreen] developers will be able to innovate more efficiently while maintaining high standards of quality and safety for consumers.'

[update] How ISO's Endorsement of Two Test Methods Will Enlighten Sunscreen Development

After 10 years, sunscreen developers are nearing the finish line for more ethical, cost efficient, reliable and faster testing thanks to ISO's endorsement of two standards. The final vote was in September 2024. Here, two experts explain what this means.

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Why the FDA's 'Sunscreens in the Bloodstream' Study is Flawed

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association tested the potential systemic absorption of certain sunscreens. Results identified their presence in subjects' bloodstreams; however, as industry expert David Steinberg explains, the study is misleading and fails to consider crucial variables.

US Regulations Update: FDA Issues Final Monograph for Skin Protectants

On June 4, 2003, the FDA published the Final Monograph (FM) for Skin Protectant Drugs for Human Use.

Mind Over Matter: Cosmetic Claim Substantiation Issues Facing the Future

It is generally accepted by the public that effective cosmetic products can positively influence the well-being of individual consumers. Whereas we can easily measure the skin moisturizing properties of a cosmetic formulation, measuring its precise effects on well-being is much more complex.

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Brazilian PBA Warns Consumers About Hair Treatment

The Professional Beauty Association (PBA) of Brazil has alerted consumers to the danger of using Brazilian keratine treatments and/or Escova progressiva treatments.

'The study does not account for a number of other differences that may be associated with increased incidence. . .'

PCPC Stands Strong with Hair Straightener Science

The Personal Care Products Council (PCPC) released a statement in response to the recent publication associating hair straightener products with a higher incidence of uterine cancer. It underlines that association is not causation.

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Taking Hair and Scalp Care to New Heights

This issue of C&T is at the forefront of hair/scalp science, exploring test methods, trends and innovations. It also revisits the fundamentals of formulating with ZnO, for mineral sunscreens, and presents an upcycled tea extract to counteract photodamage.

Is Cosmetic Science Really "Bad"? Part V: Who do you think you are fooling?

In previous installments of this series, the author applied Michael Shermer's Baloney Detection Kit, which includes ten questions to ask to validate a science, to cosmetic science. Having previously applied the first eight questions, the author addresses the final two in this installment.

As reported in 2022, the lawsuit follows the release of findings published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute associating hair straightening product use with incident uterine cancer. The study did highlight the fact that Black women could be disproportionately affected, as 60% of the 33,947 total participants who reported using hair straighteners self-identified as Black women.

Hair Relaxer-Cancer Lawsuits Will Move Forward

Earlier this year, racial justice organization Color of Change urged consumers to sign a petition demanding that Target, ShopRite, Giant, Food Lion and other major retailers remove "toxic" products such as lye relaxers and hair dyes from shelves.

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FDA Cautions: Hair-smoothing Products Can Release Formaldehyde

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently released a statement warning users of the potential for hair-straightening products to release formaldehyde gas, a known carcinogen, during heat treatments.

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