PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE: Cosmetic Regulation

Cosmetics & personal care products are NOT approved by the FDA. Surprised?!?
The FDA does regulate cosmetic products & ingredients, but the regulations are loose.
You will never guess who is responsible for ensuring product saftey!?!

Watch to learn more!

Notes & import links:
2 laws give FDA authority to regulate cosmetics & personal care products-
●Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) passed in 1938 and amended many times since.
●The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA), enacted in 1967, allows FDA and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to regulate labeling and ingredient lists of cosmetics and personal care products.
Both law increase transparency but we could do a lot more to regulate cosmetic industry.
11 ingredients are banned by FDA for use in cosmetics. Inclued: bithionol, mercury compounds, vinyl chloride, halogenated salicylanilides, zirconium complexes in aerosol cosmetics, chloroform, methylene chloride, chlorofluorocarbon propellants and hexachlorophene.
https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/resourcesforyou/consumers/ucm167234.htm
the EU (CTPA cosmetics, toiletry and perfumery assoc.) has banned over 1300 including parabens, fragrance and oxyobenzone. http://www.ctpa.org.uk/

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