Nutramedic &Cosmetics
CosmetoSAFE Consulting’s Solution for Cosmetics Technologists As many as 76% of cosmetic technologists believe that regulatory changes in the ingredient area require them to work a lot or very intensively, according to the Technologist Needs Survey report by CosmetoSAFE Consulting. The increasing commitment to work on updating product documentation means that specialists lack the time to create innovative products and develop new concepts. Rescue comes from CosmetoSAFE Assist, a tool for R&D departments, that will automate many processes when creating and updating product concepts.
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e asked technologists about their opin ions on the biggest challenges in their work today. The top three challenges in the work of technologists today are: disrupted sup ply chains (37% of respondents ranked the problem as the most important); keeping up with legislative changes in the area of ingredients (39% of respon dents ranked the challenge as number two and 35% as number one!); and adapting products to changing market trends. Consequently, we can see that the pandemic aftermath is still being felt strongly in the R&D area, which for more than three years has been shaping and changing the way the cosmetics indus try operates in Poland and Europe. The following challenges faced by R&D departments today were mentioned among the most frequently repeated individual responses: • seeking substitutes for raw materials on an 'as-is' basis,
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• disrupted raw material supply chain: availability and price volatility make it impossible to forecast production costs, • short transition periods for changes to constitu ent legislation; the time is too short to develop stable formulations, • the lack of a single, consistent database and clear information on legislative changes provided well in advance. A trend emerges from the responses of our res pondents, remarks Iwona Białas, safety assessor and CEO of CosmetoSAFE Consulting, indicating that in novation, keeping up with trends, in today's reality, has to give way to current problems related to main taining production continuity and keeping up with legislative changes. Having worked with cosmetic technologists for a decade years now, developing cosmetic safety as
