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It’s getting harder to be a cosmetic formulator these days. It used to be you could mix together any reasonable ingredients to get the performance you wanted and everyone was fine with it. Formulators didn’t even have to list the ingredients on the products!<\/p>\n

But times have changed. Now, you need to not only achieve product performance, but you have to do it with ingredients that are acceptable to your marketers, government regulators, and discerning consumers. That means a lot of standard, reliable ingredients have to be avoided. We’ll examine which ones in the rest of this post.<\/p>\n

Banned by regulators<\/h3>\n

Before continuing, it should be noted that there are some ingredients banned for use in cosmetics. FDA bans these 10 ingredients<\/a> (or classes of ingredients) while the EU lists over 1300<\/a>. This is a misleading comparison because the EU regulations list ingredients that no formulator would use in the formulation. For example, Arsenic & Cyanide are banned by the EU but not by FDA.<\/p>\n

Of course, just because an ingredient isn’t banned by FDA doesn’t mean you can use it. The overreaching rule in both regulatory frameworks is that it is illegal to produce unsafe cosmetic products.<\/p>\n

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Vilified Ingredients<\/h3>\n

While regulatory agencies ban ingredients for proven health concerns, there are a number of sources that call for ingredient bans without supporting science. These include NGO advocacy groups, natural marketers, biased retail outlets and misinformed bloggers. And despite the fact that an ingredient is perfectly safe to use, your company may ask you to avoid it due to its reputation. Here are some ingredients you may have to avoid in your formulating.<\/p>\n