Cosmetic Ingredient Review Panel Reveals Ingredient Safety Findings

The Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) Expert Panel for cosmetic ingredient safety held its 175th Meeting on March 12-13. Here are the findings:

Final Safety Assessment

• Cocoyl Hydrolyzed Collagens – 4 ingredients – Safe

Tentative Safety Assessments

• Alkyl Gallates – 4 ingredients – Safe used when formulated to be non-irritating and non-sensitizing

• 2-Bromo-2-Nitropropane-1,3-Diol – 1 ingredient – Safe when formulated to be non-sensitizing

• Dimer Dilinoleates – 7 ingredients – Safe as used

• Polyacrylate-13 – 1 ingredient – Safe as used

• Pyrogallol – 1 ingredient – Insufficient data

Insufficient Data Announcements

• Oxyquinoline – 2 ingredients

• Phosphinates – 3 ingredients

• Phthalates – 3 ingredients

• Salix alba (Willow) – 6 ingredients

The next CIR Panel meeting is June 15-16, 2026—in-person only—at The Darcy Hotel, 1515 Rhode Island Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005.
All submissions for this meeting should be received by CIR no later than April 24, 2026.