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All Beauty Care
Beauty Care - Introduction
Cosmetic products are EU-wide regulated in the EC Cosmetics Regulation. This law contains a lot of requirements for cosmetic products sold in the European Union.  Safety assessment of cosmetic products is an important topic of the regulation as it is described in more detail than before in Annex I... Read more

Legal Affairs: Information for manufacturers
EC Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009 – Explanations and comments
A milestone in the harmonisation of the EU-wide cosmetics legislation: The new European Cosmetics Regulation (EC) No. 1223/2009 was published in the Official Journal of the EU on 22 December 2009 (L 342/59-209). It has been fully in force since 11 July 2013 and replaces the existing EC Cosmetics... Read more

Good to know
Online shopping of cosmetics
A new serum with active ingredients from grapevines or rather the BB cream for an even... Read more

Legal Affairs: Information for manufacturers
General information for manufacturers and distributors of cosmetic products in Germany –...
Please download this document as a pdf file. Read more

Safety: Substances
Plastics in cosmetic products
In the media and in the expert public there have been increasingly reports about the... Read more

Safety: Substances
Mineral oils in cosmetic products are safe
For more than 100 years mineral oils (also called paraffins) have been applied in cosmetic... Read more

Safety: Product
Cosmetics and a hormone-like effect
Sunscreens, deodorants, shampoos & Co. are safe in terms of health. The cosmetic... Read more

Safety: Product
How safe are cosmetic products?
Media reports time and again insinuate that cosmetic products apparently include... Read more

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