News & Analysis on Cosmetics Innovation
South Carolina-based cosmetics watchdog Personal Care Truth (PCT) has created an online forum for discussion of topics including regulation, legislation and ingredients in response to demand from its members.
The French Health Products Safety Agency (Afssaps) has suggested that the maximum concentration of aluminium in cosmetic products should be lowered and that consumers should be made more aware of the potential dangers, following its recent risk assessment.
L’Oreal says it will fully co-operate with an investigation that is being launched into a British woman who fell into a coma after using one of its hair dye products.
In the light of the floods that caused in-cosmetics Asia to be rescheduled, the event conference program has been redesigned to focus on how to turn a crisis into an opportunity.
New research into the differences between antibacterial and non-antibacterial soaps has found that hand washing with the former produces statistically greater reductions in bacteria on the skin.