Health Canada has made the following updates to the Cosmetic Ingredient Hotlist:
New Prohibited Ingredient:
• Basic Green 4
New Restricted Ingredients:
• Benzophenone
• p-Chloro-m-cresol
• Solvent violet 13
Amended Ingredients:
• Dialkanolamines, secondary
- “Amended to include secondary alkyl- and alkanolamines and their salts for clarity.”
• Alpha-hydroxy acids
- “This entry was amended to clarify that Polyhydroxy acids (PHAs) and bionic acids with alpha-hydroxyl groups, as well as their salts, are included.”
- “The maximum permitted concentration for the consumer use category was increased from 10% to 18%.”
- “Other amendments include updated warnings and cautionary statements and additional product-specific directions for safe use.”
• Hydroquinone
- “Amended to expand the permitted nail product categories to include products for consumer use, increase the maximum concentration permitted for these products, and introduce a combined limit when both p-hydroxyanisole and hydroquinone are used in a nail product.”
• p-Hydroxyanisole
- “Amended to introduce a combined limit when both p-hydroxyanisole and hydroquinone are used in a nail product.”
• Talc
- “This entry was amended to help reduce chronic inhalation exposure to talc in cosmetics that may result in non-cancer lung effects (such as inflammation or fibrosis), as well as genital exposure to the population with intact ovary/ovaries which may result in ovarian cancer.”
- “Cautionary statements related to acute inhalation risks were also adjusted to include all loose powder products.”
Link: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/consumer-product-safety/cosmetics/cosmetic-ingredient-hotlist-prohibited-restricted-ingredients/changes.html#may2024
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