NANOTECH IN COSMETICS: NEW FORMALITIES FOR NOT-SO-NEW FORMULAS
June 1st, 2012
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
NANOMATERIALS have been finding their way into cosmetics and personal care products for years now, but until recently, the term meant different things to different manufacturers - and almost nothing to consumers. It is not until the European Commission came out with a common European Union (EU) definition for nanomaterials last October - materials whose main constituents have a dimension of between 1 billionth and 100 billionth of a metre (or 0.000000001 metre) - that cosmetics companies finally gained a clear guideline under which to define ...
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