8980 Ingredients in the New Inventory of Existing Cosmetic Ingredients in China (IECIC)

On January 26, the China National Institute for Food and Drug Control issued the “Notice on Soliciting Opinions on the Inventory of Existing Cosmetic Ingredients in China” (hereinafter referred to IECIC). The new version of IECIC deletes 57 kinds of existing ingredients and add 140 new ingredients. According to the notice, the newly released lists contain a total of 8980 kinds of raw materials, which is 190 new added compared with the 8783 kinds included in the current version IECIC 2015.  However, CosmeticsBridge noticed that it also listed the 7 deleted raw materials and the 50 raw materials that to…