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The practice of DIY, for Do It Yourself, is a great success in cosmetics. This is the result of distrust of these products and their ingredients, which could be linked to a number of health scandals and controversies over a number of ingredients. However, the proposed recipes are by no means satisfactory since the quantities of the different raw materials are rather random and neither the ingredients used nor the finished product can be controlled from the microbiological and analytical point of view. In this paper, examples will be taken in the field of oral, make-up, hygiene and care.
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Laurence COIFFARD: Professor - Laboratory of Industrial Pharmacy and Cosmetology, LIEN EA 4685, UBO, Brest, France
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Céline COUTEAU: Senior lecturer - Laboratory of Industrial Pharmacy and Cosmetology, LIEN EA 4685, UBO, Brest, France
INTRODUCTION
The DIY market, for Do It Yourself, or the art of doing things yourself, is a booming sector that has been enjoying great success in recent years. A sort of return to the pre-industrial era, this practice affects many fields, including construction, as demonstrated by the Beavers movement, which was created in France after the Second World War in the context of a housing crisis, to enable people who had the desire to do so to embark on the experience of self-building. - . In the 1960s, for San Francisco's hippie community, homemade was truly integrated into the lifestyle. The reference work was Stewart Brand's Whole Earth catalog, which provided a wealth of low-cost advice on how to make everything yourself. . The DIY movement has been present in many fields (cooking, DIY, decoration, gardening, etc.) for a long time, but its application to the cosmetics sector is relatively recent and seems to be linked to a number of health scandals. and the controversies surrounding parabens and endocrine disruptors that began in the early 2000s. , then nanoparticles -
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cosmetics | Do it Yourself (DIY)
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- Oral medicine – Toothpastes – Requirements, test methods and marking. - ISO 11609 - 2017
- Cosmetics – Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) – Guidelines for good manufacturing practice. - ISO 22716 - 2007
- Cosmetics – Sun protection test methods – In vivo determination of sun protection factor (SPF). - ISO 24444 - 2019
- Cosmetics – Sun protection test methods – In vivo determination of the UVA protection...
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