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Beautycounter’s Gregg RenfrewBeautycounter’s Gregg RenfrewTestified in CongressionalTestified in CongressionalHearing on Cosmetic ReformHearing on Cosmetic Reform"Congress heard us loud and clear," Renfrew shared with WWD."Congress heard us loud and clear," Renfrew shared with WWD."Yesterday’s efforts are moving us in the right direction, and I look"Yesterday’s efforts are moving us in the right direction, and I lookforward to continuing to work with members of Congress on thisforward to continuing to work with members of Congress on thisimportant piece of legislation."important piece of legislation."
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“It has been 81 long years since Congress has passed any laws to
make sure our beauty products are safe, and now is the time to
act,” shared Gregg Renfrew, founder and chief executive officer
of Beautycounter, in a statement to WWD.
Renfrew, a longtime advocate of clean beauty, testified
Wednesday as an expert witness in a hearing on cosmetics
reform held by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee
on Health in Washington, D.C.
“Beautycounter has proven that it’s possible to protect the
health of our customers and of those around us while building a
business,” continued Renfrew, who founded the company in
2013.
Direct-to-consumer Beautycounter has banned more than 1,500
ingredients from its own formulations, while the U.S. has
banned 30, according to the skin-care and cosmetics brand,
which aims to make clean beauty the standard in the industry.
“Congress heard us loud and clear. Yesterday’s efforts are
moving us in the right direction, and I look forward to
continuing to work with members of Congress on this important
piece of legislation,” Renfrew said.
Entitled “Building Consumer Confidence by Empowering FDA
to Improve Cosmetic Safety,” the hearing, led by committee
chairwoman Anna Eshoo and ranking member Michael Burgess,
Beautycounter's Gregg Renfrew in Washington
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centered on the role of the Food and Drug Administration in
protecting consumers of cosmetics.
“The current absence of modern, federal safety regulations
governing the beauty industry force businesses like
Beautycounter to make their own determinations about the
safety of products,” said Renfrew, who’s based in Santa Monica,
Calif., at the hearing. “And though mission-driven companies
are integral to social innovation, there is inherent risk of
comprehensive change not being adopted in the absence of
legislative reform….We believe that how Congress defines what
is safe is one of the most important elements of reform. By
creating a strong safety standard in this bill, Congress has the
opportunity to protect the health of American families, while
making sure that our business community is keeping pace with
international markets, many of whom have long demanded
greater oversight of ingredients.”
Legislation introduced earlier this year includes the Cosmetic
Safety Enhancement Act of 2019 and Safe Cosmetics and
Personal Care Products Act of 2019, both created to protect users
of cosmetics. But as it stands, federal law doesn’t demand for
cosmetics ingredients, other than color additives, to have the
approval of the FDA before hitting the market.
“The industry looks very different than it did in 1938 when FDA
was given regulatory authority over cosmetics,” Dr. Susan
Mayne, director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied
Nutrition at the FDA, said during the hearing. “These changes
help bring new opportunities and choices to consumers. There
are now more varieties of cosmetic products available to
consumers than ever before, and consumers enjoy this wide
variety of cosmetic products offered at many price points. We
are aware of estimates that the U.S. cosmetics industry may be
larger than $80 billion in terms of annual sales. But at the same
time, our authority over cosmetics has not modernized even as
the industry has undergone rapid evolution.”
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