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BIS legislative guidanceThe EU cosmetic site
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/cosmetics/scientific-assessment/index_en.htmConsumer Product Recall - A guide to good practice issued by the BIS
Cosmetic products - safety, composition and labelling
http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/cgi-bin/bglitem1.cgi?file=BADV072-1111.txt&msg=csA database of INCI names is available on the Europa website
http://europa.eu/index_en.htm
Cosmetic chemists
>>> Cosmetic Safety Assessment Ltd (Company No. 07175899)
Scott Grainger
MSc by Research, BSc Combined Sciences (Chemistry with Microbiology and Mathematics), Chartered Chemist (CChem), Chartered Scientist (CSci), Full member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC)
Services: providing safety assessments to crafters and small scale producers of cosmetics and toiletries. Special advisors to the Guild on matters relating to safety assessments
Experience:
20+ years in chemical and product safety, 7+ years in small scale manufacturing and development of cosmetics, Member of the advisory panel of the Guild of Craft Soap and Toiletry Makers
Research Interests
Toxicology of essential oils, Chemistry and formulation of artisanal cosmetics, The History and Chemistry of Soap
Tel 020 32391291 (Skype compatible)
22 Rosemount Road, Bishop Auckland, County Durham DL14 6SX
info@cosmeticsafetyassessment.com
>>> AFP Chemical Consultancy
Alan Pettitt
BSc(Hons), MSc, MRI, MSCS, EurChem, CSci, CChem, MRSC, FRAS
60 Lower Ham Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT2 5AW
Tel: 0208 549 2972
Mobile: 07802 744656
alan@consultantchemist.co.uk
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Packaging
Online Packaging Shop - UK Polythene, cardboard boxes, bubble wrap, retail packaging – Buy online supplies today
Packing Boxes UK -
Supplying a wide range of packaging materials to send, ship, move
and store
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Printing
Windmill Tapes and Labels is a leading manufacturer of self adhesive labels, specialising in a wide range of printed labels and plain labels on rolls. Whilst we manufacture a wide range of self adhesive tapes, the most common is printed tape for box sealing.
Suppliers
The Soap Kitchen
- The Soap Kitchen offers a comprehensive of functional ingredients
for the Soap/Toiletry-Maker and Candle-Maker plus all the regular
ingredients needed for Natural Cleaning alternatives
The
Soapmakers Store - The Soapmakers Store supplies Soap
Making Ingredients including Melt and Pour Soapbases, Natural Oils,
Butters, Essential Oils, Fragrances, Soap Making Equipment and a
wide range of Cosmetic Ingredients for making your own Body Care
Creations.The Soapmakers Store also supplies Candle Making and Pot
Pourri Making Ingredients
Sensory
Perfection - supply fragrance oils for use in candles,
soap, bath & body products, oil burners, lamp rings, incense, reed
diffusers, room sprays & pot pourri, candle and soap moulds, and
various accessories.
Athenian Olive – supply high grade cold pressed olive
oil for soap making – a natural alternative to the chemically
extracted olive pomace oil, but more economical than extra virgin
olive oil. Contact:
info@athenianolive.co.uk
Davpack -
supply a aide range of packaging materials
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Trainers
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College of Integrated Therapies
- Offers a distance learning course "Setting up a Handmade Soapmaking
Business". The aim of this course is to enable you to learn to make
soap using a glycerine base and to be able to sell that soap, fully
compliant with the current European Union regulations regarding the
sale of toiletries. This course includes detailed explanations of
these regulations. It is important to be aware of the regulations
governing soap making because they set very important safety
standards
Eynsham Soap Company
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Offers residential soap making courses
Genesis Soap
- Provide soap making workshops
Makesoap.biz - Training courses for those
thinking of starting a soap or natural toiletries business or who
would just like to learn natural soap making for fun
Make your own
cosmetics - Train individuals and businesses in most aspects of beauty product
manufacture and also offer cosmetic legislation training, both in
the form of distance learning and as a workshop
The Soap Kitchen
- hold regular Soap Making Workshops on our premises in Great
Torrington, Devon. These are generally on Saturday afternoons and
last approximately 4 hours. They are designed as a beginners
introduction, not a comprehensive course and do not attract any
formal or recognised qualification
Little Workshop Days
- Fancy a day in the Little Workshop? Care about your
skin? Like all things natural and wholesome? Then why not come
and spend a day in our Workshop and learn how to make your own soap
or creams and lotions! Meet the dogs who inspired our pet shampoo
bar and the chickens who sing away as we mix the oils! We have
courses (one to one or small groups) on: Cold Processed Soap Making,
Making Lotions, Creams and Balms, How to set up your own toiletries
business
The School of Holistic Cosmetology -
provides high-level training in the science of skincare formulation
for spa professionals, holistic therapists and those who work in the
beauty industry.
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Weights & measures
Guidance
notes on average quantity - The Weights and Measures (Packaged
Goods) Regulations 2006 &
Weighing equipment in use for trade
http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/cgi-bin/bglitem1.cgi?file=BADV024-1111.txt&msg=mt
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