A survey and health assessment of cosmetic products for children

The parameter ”Not relevant” is used for products which for example is
made of glass or metal. The parameter “Not stated” means that the packaging
is made of plastic but the type is not stated or it has not been possible to read
the stated type of plastic.
4.2.6 CE labelling
Some of the cosmetic products for children are designed as various figures,
for example Winnie the Pooh, Barbie, Minnie Mouse, a mobile phone or
simply a kind of bobble bath designed for instance as a frog. According to the
Toys Statutory Order (see section 3.2.1 ”Safety requirements to toys”)
products clearly designed or intended for playing purposes for children below
14 years must be CE labelled (Stat. Ord. 1116, 2003).
It is the Danish Safety Technology Authority who is responsible for and
assesses whether a product comes under the definition of toys and thus must
be CE labelled. In the database it is stated whether the mapped products are
CE labelled or not.
4.2.7 Marketing of the products – directly towards children?
This point is added to the database to give a varied description of how the
cosmetic products are marketed towards children. The reason is that during
the survey it turned out that there is a number of grey area products where it
might be discussed whether they are products being directly marketed towards
children or they just are products appealing to children due to for instance the
design or appearance of the products.
As described in chapter 2 ”Definition of cosmetic products for children”,
cosmetic products for children in this project are defined both as products
which are directly marketed to children, i.e. as an example they are called
“Children’s”, and products which via their design or appearance appeal to
children. However, in some cases, the latter is a matter of opinion and
therefore this assessment has been made for each product and this is noted in
the database.
4.2.8 Possible comments
In the database there is space to note possible comments about the product in
question. The noted comments are for instance the following:
• Information about possible spelling mistakes in the INCI names of the
declaration of contents as well as a note with an assumption of the INCI
names which should have been stated.
• Information about the constituents that could not be found in the present
INCI list and therefore is added to the INCI list of the database.
4.3 Results of the survey
In the following the data material which can be extracted from the database of
the 208 purchased cosmetic products for children is presented.
4.3.1 Product name
As mentioned, in total 208 cosmetic products for children were bought. These
cover all the products of cosmetic products for children which we could find
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