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Why did the EU ban Parabens?
I was explaining to a client that Parabens are safe and she asked well why did the EU ban them and honestly, I couldn’t really say. What would you tell a client who asked this question and how do you support that Parabens are safe?
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It’s not true at all. I live in Europe and there are products with parabens on shelves. A couple were banned (I hope more experienced members specify which ones) but you can easily buy products and ingredients with the most common parabens. I source my phenonip (Phenoxyethanol (and) Methylparaben (and) Ethylparaben (and) Propylparaben (and) Butylparaben (and) Isobutylparaben) from Italy. Also it’s a wrong perception that cosmetics is safer in EU. I would say FDA is much stricter in some areas.
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Not certain if this is the right EU commission or agency, but at least on this Annex, parabens are allowed.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:342:0059:0209:en:PDF
Our ASEAN directives follows relatively to the EU guidelines, so for ours they are still allowed to be used at a certain percentage as per the guidelines.
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See more misinformation in the USA regarding what the EU bans. We can thank the Kardashians for that lol. Also, interesting that you say that the EU is not “safer” than the US. Thanks for clarifying. Now I can say they aren’t banned.
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@esthetician922 - you might find this discussion thread interesting.
https://chemistscorner.com/cosmeticsciencetalk/discussion/7515/were-parabens-falsely-demonized-for-use-in-cosmetics-skincare#latest
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