Cosmetics testing is key to ensuring that safe and effective beauty and personal care products reach consumers, even though they are not mandatory to bring a brand or product to market.
In the past decade, we have seen the beauty and personal care industry growing at a rapid pace.
With lowered barriers to entry, anyone can easily start their own beauty brand. While this has given us some exciting and disruptive brands and products, there are concerns about product safety.
Cosmetic chemist Rita Sellars has seen numerous products on market that have not undergone basic stability testing. She advocates beauty brands big or small should take product safety more seriously for the sake of consumer health and the industry’s reputation.
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