How do you ensure safe, high-quality, and sustainable personal care products?
The development and marketing of cosmetic, personal care, and household products involves complex formulation and ingredient selection to ensure that the final product not only works as expected, but also protects the end consumer from possible harm when using the product.
Cosmetic product safety and effectiveness is imperative for many regulatory frameworks. From the EU to the U.K., to California and Canada — recent regulations have stepped up the requirements for safety assessments, requiring extensive product data that show products are stable, made to good manufacturing practice (GMP) standards, and deliver on claims.
Exponent's multidisciplinary teams have decades of experience working across all areas of the personal care industry, including product development, distribution, and manufacturing of cosmetic and personal care products. Additionally, many of our highly experienced consultants have worked for industry, with trade associations, as government regulators, or for contract research organizations, giving us unparalleled expertise with solving complex regulatory and scientific problems.
With a global footprint, the Team can act as your U.K. and EU Responsible Persons for all your cosmetic and personal care registrations or provide contract and ad-hoc regulatory services for products intended for international distribution. We can also act as registered agents in other regions, including the U.S.
Services
For 50+ years, we’ve thrived on solving unstructured problems that require bespoke solutions. Some of our services include:
• Responsible Person dossier preparation and management in compliance with EC/1223/2009 and the Product Safety and Metrology, etc. (Amendment, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
• Cosmetics Product Safety Reports
• Product Information File creation/reviewing/auditing
• Cosmetic labeling reviews and advice
• Borderline advice
• Claim substantiation assessment and compliance strategy
• Advice on new product development and ingredient selection
• New active ingredient SCCS submissions and raw material support
• Ingredient safety assessments
• Global registration/notification of cosmetic products
• Global regulatory advice and compliance support
Explore Exponent's MoCRA Capabilities
Our Capabilities Are Unparalleled
With expertise in over 90 disciplines and hundreds of capabilities, tools, and methodologies — we get to the root of even the most complex challenges and give you the objective answers you need.
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Food
Food safety, nutrition, and dietary exposure assessments, and technical and regulatory support.
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Biocides & Antimicrobials
Expertise in multifaceted regulatory requirements in biocide and antimicrobial product approval processes.
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Agrochemicals & Pesticides
Navigate complex requirements for agrochemicals and pesticides in Europe and North America.
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Consumer Products: Cosmetics & Personal Care
Personal care products consulting for registration, notification targets, and product development.
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Industrial Chemicals
Regulatory support for chemicals, solvents, polymers, antimicrobials, biocides, and more.
Experts
Our global and comprehensive expertise across industries gives us a deep understanding of current challenges, best industry practices, and the implications of emerging technologies.
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