12.16.21
At the 159th meeting of the Cosmetic Ingredient Review Expert Panel, held online Dec. 6-7, final safety assessments for personal care and beauty components and other news were unveiled. The last one was in September 2021, as reported in Happi.
The next Expert Panel meeting is slated for March 7-8, 2022, to be held virtually via Microsoft Teams. Please submit a request for an invitation prior to the meeting if you would like to attend. The link will be available approximately a month before the meeting and will be found on the 160th meeting page of the CIR website.
Here are the results from the December 2021 session:
Final Safety Assessments
· Silicates – 24 ingredients – Split (24 safe with qualifications, except insufficient for potential inhalation)· Basic Yellow 57 – 1 ingredient – Safe as a hair dye
· Diacetone Alcohol – 1 ingredient – Safe
· Saccharum officinarum (Sugarcane) – 4 ingredients – Safe
· Equisetum arvense – 5 ingredients – Safe
Tentative Safety Assessments
· Methicones – 30 ingredients – Safe with qualifications· Salvia officinalis (Sage) – 12 ingredients – Split (6 safe with qualifications; 6 insufficient)
· Radish Root – 7 ingredients – Safe with qualifications
· Acryloyloxyethyl Phosphorylcholine – 8 ingredients – Safe
· Acrylamide/Acrylate Copolymers – 16 ingredients – Safe
Insufficient Data Announcements
· Barley – 16 ingredients· Zeolites – 6 ingredients
· Fatty Ester End-Capped Alkoxylates 14 – ingredients
· Fatty Ethers (e.g., Dicaprylyl Ether) – 8 ingredients
· Portulaca oleracea – 4 ingredients
· Glucosamine – 4 ingredients
· Zingiber officinale (Ginger) – 9 ingredients