‘The Search Is On’: PCPC’s Lamoriello On Replacing Microplastic In Cosmetics, Reasonable Deadlines

The European Commission should extend the proposed six-year deadline “significantly” for replacing microplastics in leave-on cosmetics such as sunscreens and nix microplastic labeling requirements for makeup, lip and nail products, says the Personal Care Products Council’s executive VP of global strategies Francine Lamoriello, calling the task before industry “huge.”

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The Personal Care Products Council says industry needs more time to remove microplastic from sunscreen and other leave-on cosmetic products than the six years proposed by the European Commission in August.

The Commission’s draft restriction would give companies 12 years to reformulate makeup, lip and nail products without microplastic, recognizing the relatively high costs expected for those activities and the

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