Cosmetics Labelling Violations in Canada

Deciphering the ingredients list on a cosmetic product is never an easy task, especially when the manufacturers make a point of using ridiculously miniscule print. Some small products such as eye-shawdow, eye liner and lipstick do not even carry ingredients list because the product is not large enough to bear a long list of chemicals. When the cosmetic companies violate labelling laws it makes it even harder for the consumer to establish precisely what is lurking within their beauty products.

CanWest News Service recently published a story into widespread cosmetic labelling violations in Canada, using Health Canada inspection reports. At Read more

Canada Bans Two Toxics From Cosmetic Products

The Canadian authorities have added two cosmetic chemicals, isoprene and epichlorohydrin to the Cosmetic Ingredient Hotlist (a document featuring prohibited and restricted ingredients modelled to a degree on the restricted lists in the EU Cosmetics Directive). The cosmetics industry isn’t exactly reeling as these ingredients are hardly used anyway, but Health and Environment Canada are scrutinising 200 ‘high-priority’ chemicals over the next year.

Siloxanes D4 and D5, commonly used in deodorants and numerous other Read more