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In a recent article by Cosmetics Design, Cassandra Stern explains why the addition of several chemical-product combinations to Washington state's Department of Ecology final priority list, building on it's Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act, may signal rising regulatory pressure in US beauty care.

As brands move to natural ingredients and sustainable formulas, their formulators identified a new gap in their ingredient portfolio: natural solubilizers. Traditional solubilizers are effective but petrochemical-derived and ethoxylated, or naturally-derived, but not very effective.