Blog For Cosmetic Professionals — US Cosmetic Regulations

Here's an issue that has come up a few times lately. How do list the ingredients on tablet soap?The reason for ingredient lists on cosmetics is to enable people who have allergies to particular chemicals to identify products that might give them a problem. This is a worthy objective, and to make sure that it is indeed effective there are rules that require companies to follow a standard format in the way they list those ingredients. This makes perfect sense, but there is a slight bug in the system. If you are adding an ingredient which reacts with another ingredient...

  I keep an eye on the FDA's reports of things that are refused import at the docks. This is far and away the most common cause of problems with regulatory compliance. The goods get looked at by officials and they are able to take action against anything they deem to be wrong by the simple expedient of stopping it entering the country. There isn't a huge amount the supplying company can do when this happens. There is a steady stream of these events but one company seems to have had a particularly bad time in June with no fewer...