German natural ingredient supplier Cremer Care announces availability of "a natural, purely vegetable alternative to petrolatum." Commonly known as petroleum jelly or paraffin jelly, petrolatum has been used in the personal-care industry for roughly 150 years for its moisturizing, soothing and aesthetic benefits in products including bath and hair-care items, sunscreens and makeup. "Relying on fossil oil as the basis of petrolatum is definitively not up-to-date anymore," says Cremer March 31. After several failed attempts at a natural replacement for petrolatum, firm says it has "a real worldwide novelty" in the form of Cremerlin, developed by one of its subsidiaries. Firms seeking natural and organic certification may be particularly interested in the product, which will be displayed for the first time at the "In Cosmetics" exhibition in Munich April 21-23
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The US FTC’s contention that ‘notice and choice’ has failed as the cornerstone of consumer privacy regulation and must be abandoned in favor of data minimization and other more stringent measures does not adequately account for the complexity of business practices and consumer behavior, FTC commissioner Melissa Holyoak asserted at the NAD’s 2024 Annual Conference.
FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak says the agency has acted outside the bounds afforded by Congress, citing several areas within consumer protection, including a recent update to the final rule for the Health Breach Notification Rule and the commission’s use of notices of penalty offense to serve as the basis for Section 5 settlements.
At one year, TikTok Shop conjures the early days of Amazon, representing the ‘Wild West’ of beauty ecommerce, said co-founders of private label and contract manufacturing company KO-Pack at the IBA Cosmetics Convergence Fall 2024 Virtual Symposium, “The Promise and Pitfalls of TikTok Shop.”
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A round-up of the latest European health & wellness appointments: Workman re-elected AESGP chair; PGEU names 2026 leadership; Nicapur gets managing director.
Market growth and product innovations are continuing as FDA looks to Congress for authorization to establish regulatory pathway agency says it needs to determine whether to allow hemp-derived ingredients in food, dietary supplements and non-drug topicals including cosmetics.
Four co-chairs of the House of Representatives’ Skin Cancer Caucus have introduced the Safe Sunscreen Standards Act to direct FDA to establish clearer, ‘more flexible’ standards for evaluating sunscreen ingredients.
