California Air Board Zeroes In On Three Personal-Care Categories For Steep VOC Reductions

 
• By Lauren Nardella

Manufacturers of hair finishing sprays, no-rinse shampoos and personal fragrance products – eg, perfumes, colognes and body sprays – face significant reformulation challenges under a draft proposal from California’s Air Resources Board that contemplates fewer category impacts, but deeper VOC cuts, compared with previous considerations to help meet state-wide pollution-reduction goals.

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There’s good news and bad news for the personal-care industry in the California Air Resources Board’s recently released draft proposal to reduce volatile organic compound (VOC) levels in consumer products in line with state-wide environmental goals.

Released in conjunction with a 7 November public workshop, the CARB’s informal regulatory proposalidentifies hair finishing sprays, no-rinse shampoos and personal fragrance products (with 20% or less

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