Making & selling handmade cosmetic products is a serious business and the EU Cosmetic laws require that you provide certain safety information and keep accurate, detailed records. Your obligations extend to ensuring that your labels contain key information, your products adhere to the weights and measures regulations and that your manufacturing practices are documented and adhered to.

Our 150 page, paper-backed technical manual covers everything you will need to know in order to fulfill your obligations as a responsible person manufacturing and selling cosmetic products..

Safety Assessment, CPSR and GMP - Creation and Maintenance
PIFs & Record Keeping
Cosmetic Product Labelling Requirements & Allergens
Working with the Authorities and Ready to Sell!

Cosmetic Product Safety Assessment
which includes
Why your products need to be assessed
Preparing your formula for a successful safety assessment
Sample safety assessments
Using a base product for your safety assessment
CPSR and the information you will need to give your assessor
List of Cosmetic Chemists contact details
List of Testing Labs
Creating your Good Manufacturing Policy

PIFs & Record Keeping
which includes
A detailed explanation of the paperwork you need to have on file
Creating a PIF
PIF examples
Collating Material Safety Data Sheets
Creating Product Specifications
Safety Reports
Batch numbering information

Cosmetic Product Labelling Requirements
which includes
Compulsory information for labels
Ingredients INCI names
Weights
BBE and PAO dates
Warning statements and claims
CI references
Difficulties with labelling
Allergens
Identifying which allergens are present in oils
Essential oil allergen chart
Calculating the percentage of allergens in products
CAS numbers

Working with the Authorities and Ready to Sell!
which includes
Accessing the Cosmetics Portal
Trading Standards and what they will expect
Weights, measures & scales
Insurance
Selling over the Internet
Packaging guidelines
Can I sell it now? checklist

The information contained in this technical manual is the same as the information contained within the Cosmetic Regulations course.  Both the home study and the workshop courses also include tutor support, templates, label symbols as well as assignments and online test (home study only) which are required for us to provide you with a CPD accredited certificate.