CIR Panel Affirms Nonoxynol Safety, Upholding Earlier Conclusion

Cosmetic Ingredient Review experts made final a delayed safety assessment on nonoxynols at their last meeting of 2015, determining the ingredients – including nonoxynol-9, singled out by Women’s Voices for the Earth as particularly concerning – safe as used in cosmetic products when formulated to be non-irritating. The panel issued six final safety assessments in total and advanced six tentative reports.