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Well over 300 entries, from around 170 entrants, in 15 countries — that’s the final tally for this, the tenth Free From Skincare Awards! All of those entrants (albeit not every one of their entries) have been showcased on our…
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It has been an unusual Free From Skincare Awards, this year. We weren’t surprised that entries were slightly down on 2019, given that the coronavirus pandemic was beginning to take hold during the early entry period, and naturally many of…
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Just before Christmas, Lorraine Dallmeier, CEO of Formula Botanica, the world’s largest online organic formulation training school and long term friend to the Free From Skincare Awards, put together this excellent article on new guidance on free from claims in…
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300 entries have been whittled down to the just over 200 highly performing products which make up the complete 2019 Free From Skincare Awards Shortlist. Whittling down, believe you me, is no easy job, and for that we’ve primarily got our…
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There is new guidance coming into effect for cosmetics in the EU from July 2019 concerning ‘free from’ claims. You can see it here, in Annex III of this Technical Document on Cosmetic Claims from the Sub Working Group on Claims,…
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We were intrigued recently to learn of the development of a ‘Ribena’ hair dye, made from the skins of blackcurrants who’ve given up their juice to make the popular British cordial and would otherwise be disposed of. Read the Telegraph’s…
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Sponsors are a valued and essential asset to the Free From Skincare Awards — and we’re hugely proud to be associated with every one of our six current sponsors, namely NATorigin, Formula Botanica, Bare & Beyond, Lavera, Organyc and Organii….
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‘Free From’ labelling is based on fear. So declared a cosmetics industry panel at a summit last year, as reported in Cosmetics Design Europe last month. No, we countered in response. ‘Free from’ messaging is vital to those with allergies, or…
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‘Free-from claims are based on fear and should stop‘ reads the headline of a report from Cosmetics Design Europe, which is drawn from remarks made by an industry panel at a recent In-Cosmetics Summit meeting. Are they? I don’t read ‘free from animal derivatives’…
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Three interesting snippets on issues that concern us have come to our attention lately … The first concerns the preservative methylisothiazolinone (MI) — a subject we have covered extensively before. Cosmetics Design Europe recently reported that Denmark has called for…
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