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Comedy Saturday… Can anyone top this for worst INCI ever?
On the beginner site where I try and provide a little sanity, this label popped up….not as a bad product…but something they wanted to ‘knock off’.
Look at the claims… OMG…the medical industry is set to be replaced! ????
But my all time favorite…. the wording on the INCI for the emulsifier…this was new to me, and I thought I had seen it all… “Organic Stabilizer”.
Don’t even start with the preservative.
BTW… How does one go about reporting a product to the FDA? (Asking for a friend.) ????
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Its not the worst.
The worst would have to be some hippy-made product where they included ‘love’ as an ingredient. I wish I had photographed it now!
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Here in Hawaii, we make products with ‘Aloha’. ???? ????
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I see worse all the time. DIYer’s trying to get established in a retail market are, in my experience very uniformed on Regulatory issues.
https://www.fda.gov/safety/report-problem-fda/consumer-complaint-coordinators
fda.gov
Consumer Complaint Coordinators
Report an adverse event or problem with an FDA-regulated product to a Consumer Complaint Coordinator.
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OMG….went to file my first complaint…. and they only have phone numbers???? (How 20th century, and quaint.)
I got rid of my phone….years ago, when I retired?
Is there not a web page where one can file?
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Oh yeah, I have a good one too 😀
I got this one for free for my grocery shopping. I guess they could not sell 😀
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@Paprik is that Ahhh, it’s all Good? If so have a look at the shampoo bar ingredients - they are worse:
Ingredients: Sodium Coco Sulphate (coconut derived), Water (infusion of lentils), Sweet Almond Oil, Citric acid, Cocomidylpropyl betaine, Manuka Honey, Natural (colourless) Henna, Glycerine, Honey FragranceAlso note that this is being sold in NZ - they are supposed to do INCI labelling - as per Cosmetic Products Group Standard 2017. Some labels are just so shockingly bad.
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That is first time I had heard of organic stabilizer ????. The Helianthus Annuss seed is sunflower seed not Arnica. ????
I once had a Garnier product that listed ROPYLENE GLYCOL in the ingredients. The proof reading team must have been on holidays that week.
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Haha I was excited to see this post, and went straight for the INCI. I thought hmm, “organic stabilizer”. What in the world? I haven’t heard of that before. But I’m newer here.
Glad to see I wasn’t the only one who hadn’t heard of “organic stabilizer”. ????
I mean, it seems like some brands will not only leave ingredients off completely, but they make up new words too.
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Who is selling this?
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@Paprik that one is a laugh too. BTMS-25? Must be 25 times stronger than just plain BTMS, right?
Here in the USA, upcoming MoCRA regs should - I’m not saying will - put an end to this chicanery as soon as all these indie brands are required to register their labels with FDA like our OTC drug products have for six decades.
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I think I found one….that is trying to unseat the others. It is posing as a natural brand….and I just love the creative re-naming of polysorbate 60… OMG ???? … Yes…and all the other issues as well.
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They took that creative approach…write out of the mfg’s creative description:
“Emulsifying Wax is a mixture of cetearyl alcohol and the polyethylene glycol sorbitan ester of stearic acid with an average of 20 repeating units of ethylene glycol.”
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Oh that so called ingredients. Did you file complaint? You can do so online under the fda website
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I was planning on it….then discovered the FDA only operates with last century technology. You can only phone them in. Since I have no phone….I could not complete the task. 🙁
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