EU Chemicals Strategy Stands To Transform Cosmetics Regulation

Cosmetics Europe Director-General John Chave says whichever way the European Commission proceeds under its recently released sustainable chemicals strategy, there almost certainly will need to be changes to the Cosmetic Products Regulation. Chave counts the strategy among “the biggest legislative policy proposals affecting our sector probably ever.”

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The European Commission’s vision for a sustainable chemicals future stands to alter the bloc’s regulatory and institutional landscape, with significant implications for the cosmetics industry.

The prospect of automatic, hazard-based bans or restrictions on use of endocrine disruptors or other chemicals of concern across industry...

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