Industry divided over newly published ISO 16128

Published: 6-Oct-2017
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Fébea welcomes the guidelines on definitions for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients, but Cosmebio and others do not

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French cosmetics bodies are divided over the newly published ISO 16128, which provides guidelines on definitions for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients.

Beauty organisation Fébea welcomed the guidelines as a harmonisation of standards, but Cosmebio and others called it a 'Pandora’s box' that could

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