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Regulatory Update – Lactic Acid 2022

Lactic Acid is a common ingredient found in a wide range of cosmetic and personal care products, such as the increasingly popular chemical peel. While it is known for providing unparalleled benefits for the skin, there are some important safety requirements you should be aware of when using this ingredient. As a beauty brand owner, you must be aware of the cosmetic formulation guidelines and workplace health and safety (WHS) precautions for this commonly used ingredient so that you can protect everybody interacting with both this ingredient and any products containing it. Below, we detail what Lactic Acid is, and

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Supply of Products

Over the past few weeks, we have talked about your product, your packaging and labelling and although we spoke briefly about supply last month I would like to dwell a little deeper and what to expect. As previously mentioned, the last thing you want to do as a small brand is to finally get your break that you have been working so hard towards and have stock rejected, not be able to supply or not be compliant with their requirements. So let’s break this down and have a look, why would your stock get rejected when they ordered in the

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Ingredient in Focus: Behentrimonium Chloride

Understanding the hair allows us to understand key ingredient to use to help support. Watch this cool video (from a white man with no curly hair haha) for a short understanding of WHAT MAKES CURLY HAIR CURLY. And why Curly hairs needs are different! Conditioning thick curly and frizzy hair can be quite challenging as you want to ensure you have ample power for comb-through but not too much for residue! Curly hair need extra TLC because as the video shows, natural oils find it hard to move down the hair. Choosing key ingredients that have an affinity to hair

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