Sunscreen brands are under more scrutiny than ever. Between FDA scrutiny, retailer expectations, consumer watchdog testing, class-action lawsuits, and viral social media callouts, inaccurate SPF claims can quickly turn into a regulatory, legal, and PR nightmare. The challenge is that many brands don’t realize there’s a problem until it’s already
Your Questions Answered: What Is HDRS Testing and Why Does It Matter? Hybrid Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy (HDRS) is one of the most significant advances in sunscreen testing in decades, and it’s already approved for product labeling in Europe. Here, our team answers the most common questions we hear from formulators,
What are Carbomers and why do some contain benzene? Carbomers are a group of polymers that are widely used as inactive ingredients in drug products as fillers, emulsifiers, gelling agents, and binding agents. Some carbomers are manufactured using benzene as a polymerization solvent, whilst others employ a benzene-free manufacturing process.
The Modernization of Cosmetic Regulation Act of 2022 (MoCRA) was enacted on December 29, 2022 and is the most significant expansion of FDA’s authority to regulate cosmetics since the enactment of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in 1938. On the one-year anniversary of the enactment of MoCRA, the
As its name suggests, Preservative Efficacy Testing (PET) is a procedure for determining the effectiveness of a product’s preservative system after controlled quantities of test microorganisms have been introduced. Antimicrobial Preservative Efficacy testing is essential to cosmetic/personal care and drug manufacturers for identifying optimal preservative combination(s) and concentrations(s) of preservatives
Personal care and beauty products are manufactured using a selection of approximately 10,500 unique chemical ingredients, so it’s imperative that products are properly tested before reaching the marketplace. As stated on the EWG’s Cosmetics Database, the average person uses nine products daily and in some cases, women were applying 15
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Sunscreen brands are under more scrutiny than ever. Between FDA scrutiny, retailer expectations, consumer watchdog testing, class-action lawsuits, and viral social media callouts, inaccurate SPF
Your Questions Answered: What Is HDRS Testing and Why Does It Matter? Hybrid Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy (HDRS) is one of the most significant advances in
What are Carbomers and why do some contain benzene? Carbomers are a group of polymers that are widely used as inactive ingredients in drug products
The Modernization of Cosmetic Regulation Act of 2022 (MoCRA) was enacted on December 29, 2022 and is the most significant expansion of FDA’s authority to
As its name suggests, Preservative Efficacy Testing (PET) is a procedure for determining the effectiveness of a product’s preservative system after controlled quantities of test
Personal care and beauty products are manufactured using a selection of approximately 10,500 unique chemical ingredients, so it’s imperative that products are properly tested before