Campaigners urge L’Oréal to remove ‘cancer-causing’ chemicals from products

Published: 12-May-2017
Ingredients Regulatory

A petition with 150,000 signatures has been delivered to L’Oréal’s global headquarters, however, the corporate reassures that its products comply with the "strictest regulations in the world"

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Campaigners urge L’Oréal to remove ‘cancer-causing’ chemicals from products

Campaigners descended on L’Oréal USA’s headquarters in New York yesterday to deliver a petition asking for the cosmetics giant to eliminate the use of toxic chemicals and disclose its fragrance chemicals.

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