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| ===== Cosmetics and Personal Care Products ===== | ===== Cosmetics and Personal Care Products ===== |
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| Algae and algal extracts are among the most widely used plant- and marine-derived ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products, serving as active ingredients, humectants, thickeners, colourants and film-formers. The EU cosmetics regulatory framework is entirely separate from food and feed law — managed by different competent authorities, with its own safety assessment and notification system — and applies in full to any product making contact with the external surfaces of the human body with the principal purpose of cleaning, perfuming, changing appearance, protecting, or correcting body odours. | Algae and algal extracts are among the most widely used plant- and marine-derived ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products, serving as active ingredients, humectants, thickeners, colourants and film-formers. The EU cosmetics regulatory framework is entirely separate from food and feed law — managed by different competent authorities, with its own safety assessment and notification system — and applies in full to any product making contact with the external surfaces of the human body with the principal purpose of cleaning, perfuming, changing appearance, protecting, or correcting body odours. |
| ==== Cosmetic Claims — the Claims Regulation ==== | ==== Cosmetic Claims — the Claims Regulation ==== |
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| Commission Regulation (EU) No 655/2013 of 10 July 2013 laying down common criteria for the justification of claims used in relation to cosmetic products, OJ L 190, 11.7.2013, p. 31. | Commission Regulation (EU) No 655/2013 of 10 July 2013 laying down common criteria for the justification of claims used in relation to cosmetic products, OJ L 190, 11.7.2013, p. 31. [[https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32013R0655|EURlex]] |
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| __Relevance to algae:__ Claims made for cosmetic products — whether about the product's efficacy ("firms and lifts", "reduces the appearance of fine lines"), its composition ("contains X% marine algae extract"), or its character ("natural", "sustainable", "organic") — must satisfy six common criteria: legality, truthfulness, evidential support, honesty, fairness, and informed decision-making. Cosmetic "organic" or "natural" claims, which are commercially significant for algae-derived cosmetics, are not governed by the same Regulation (EU) 2018/848 that applies to food and feed; they are instead subject to private certification standards (notably COSMOS-standard for organic and natural cosmetics) and the general truthfulness requirement of the claims Regulation. | __Relevance to algae:__ Claims made for cosmetic products — whether about the product's efficacy ("firms and lifts", "reduces the appearance of fine lines"), its composition ("contains X% marine algae extract"), or its character ("natural", "sustainable", "organic") — must satisfy six common criteria: legality, truthfulness, evidential support, honesty, fairness, and informed decision-making. Cosmetic "organic" or "natural" claims, which are commercially significant for algae-derived cosmetics, are not governed by the same Regulation (EU) 2018/848 that applies to food and feed; they are instead subject to private certification standards (notably COSMOS-standard for organic and natural cosmetics) and the general truthfulness requirement of the claims Regulation. |
