The EU’s Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) has declared butylparaben only safe for children’s products at low concentrations. Classified as an endocrine disruptor, the committee says the preservative is unsafe for children under 10 to use in multiple personal care applications simultaneously, at the current legal limit of 0.14%. It has also said that the legal concentration level should be lowered across different formats.
The committee found that total exposure from lotions, creams, and other products could reach 952 µg/kg/day in infants, while the safe limit is 245 µg/kg/day.
Following this announcement, the EU added 20 more substances to its list of banned cosmetic ingredients, as part of Regulation (EU) 2025/877. These newly banned ingredients are classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic, or harmful to reproduction (CMRs). The ban takes effect on September 1 this year.
More information: https://www.personalcareinsights.com/news/eu-bans-toxic-cosmetic-ingredients.html
