The Cosmetics Testing News

The what? The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has identified that hundreds of cosmetics products sold within the EU contain toxic…

The Cosmetic Toiletry & Perfumery Association (CTPA) pushes back against a study by the University of Birmingham that warns the skin is…

Consumers no longer accept unsubstantiated sustainable cosmetic claims and demand transparency across their products’ entire lifecycle. Personal Care Insights speaks to Lignopure…

How Colourstart can help you Colourstart is a clean, convenient and easy to use patch test. The Colourstart pack contains…

SSbD4ChEM brings together stakeholders from industry, government, academia, and civil society to develop and promote best practices for safe and…

The body of EU chemicals legislation has evolved since the 1960s, producing the largest knowledge base on chemicals worldwide. Like…

Fragrances are important contact allergens; however, investigation of their skin sensitization potency has been challenging in new approach methods (NAMs)….

On 31 May, the ‘New approach methodologies workshop: Towards an animal free regulatory system for industrial chemicals’ took place at…

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large class of thousands of synthetic chemicals that are used throughout society. However,…

Toxicology is a field of science that helps us understand the harmful effects that chemicals or substances can have on…

Imagine a world without animal testing… where the safety of chemicals, cosmetics, therapeutics and other products is assured using modern,…

Consumer Product Testing Company (CPTC) offers a vegan, in-vitro test method to estimate ocular irritation potential. There are no animal…

Over the past few months, in multiple regions of France, an increasing number of police reports of needle spiking have…

The products we traditionally use for personal hygiene and beauty can have large ecological impacts. Many of them use chemicals…

The guide helps companies and national authorities understand how mixtures containing titanium dioxide (TiO2) need to be classified and labelled…

When one of the founders of Lemma Labs reached out to me to review his brand new Hair ID test…

EU cosmetic ingredients are governed by two regulations that conflict. Regulation EC 1223/2009, the Cosmetic Regulation, bans in vivo (animal) testing for…

In vivo tests have been conducted on 63 cosmetic ingredients since the European Union ban on the testing of cosmetics on…

On October 14, 2020, the European Commission published a communiqué “Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability Towards a Toxic-Free Environment» [COM (2020)…