Brazil adds 1,100 translations to personal care product ingredients list
Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has updated its list of cosmetic and personal care product ingredients translated into Portuguese, adding translations for 1,148 substances in the month of May. The translations are intended to help companies...
Package of ‘safer beauty’ bills reintroduced in US Congress
Democratic lawmakers have reintroduced a suite of four bills seeking to ban concerning chemicals from personal care products and require greater ingredient transparency. The “Safer Beauty Bill Package” would impose bans on 11 types of chemicals (HR3619),...
Brazil updates permitted additives in hair styling products
Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has issued a new normative instruction outlining permitted additives in products for straightening or curling hair. Under IN 220/2023, the following substances will be permitted in covered hair straightening...