Twenty-five children’s environmental health scientists published in the New England Journal of Medicine to announce the creation of the Consortium for Children’s Environmental Health called the Institute for Preventative Health, which will make regulatory recommendations for protecting children and pregnan...
Used since the 1950s to make consumer products nonstick, oil- and water-repellent, and resistant to temperature change, PFAS chemicals have been linked toserious health problems, including cancer, fertility issues, high cholesterol, hormone disruption, liver damage, obesity and thyroid disease. Recen...
By the 1970s, manufacturers conceded that PFAS were building up in the bodies of employees who worked with them. Recent scientific reports have estimated that nearly all people in the U.S. have some PFAS chemicals in their blood. Studies of workers exposed on the job and people who drank c...
Bart Vanderbiest, global director of cosmetics, color materials at Sun Chemical, commented: “As the beauty industry has shifted toward more natural trends, we’re constantly striving to bring more sustainable solutions to the market. We look forward to...
The SunPURO Natural products line aims to strike a balance between responsibility and naturality, offering conscious color and purposeful products, per the company.
TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy) - Transmission Electron Microscopy is a technique that transmits electrons through a thin material sample. The electrons react with the material to create a very high resolution image allowing researchers to observe chemical makeup. ...
Imwitor 375 (INCI: (Glyceryl Citrate/Lactate/Linoleate/Oleate) is a natural-based anionic O/W liquid emulsifier offering light sensory for a variety of textures and applications. With a safe food-approved profile from natural sources based on sunflower, it hel...
L'Oréal and IBM Are Betting AI Can Make Beauty More Effective & Sustainable The model itself will be trained on "a broad set of unlabeled data, capable of performing various tasks and applying information from one situation to another." Jan 16th, 2025 A...
(A nanogram is equivalent to 1 billionth of a gram.) Another chemical group in food packaging that has migrated into people is phthalates, the research revealed. Found in shampoo, makeup, perfume and children’s toys as well as food containers, phthalates have been l...
Called “forever chemicals” because they fail to break down fully in the environment, PFAS have been used since the 1950s to make consumer products nonstick, oil- and water-repellent, and resistant to temperature change. Some of the most studied PFAS, such as PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) an...