Beauty News files developments as they break: product launches worth attention, ingredient restrictions, contamination recalls, and regulatory decisions affecting cosmetics and sun protection. Each item explains what the substance does, who is exposed, and whether a bottle already on the shelf should be discarded.
Product launches, restrictions on ingredients, contamination recalls and regulator decisions in cosmetics, with the substance and the exposure explained.
The clean-beauty retailer Credo has rolled out Credo Qualified, a certification program for contract manufacturers, and a Clean Beauty Council to guide its standards — a move that reaches further up the supply chain than any shelf label.
A California law that took effect January 1 folds basic labor-standards information directly into cosmetology license applications and renewals, a small paperwork change with real weight for the state's salon workforce.