Ban of Pentasodium Pentetate in Soap & Cosmetics

We are here to help! Due to the ban of Pentasodium Pentetate, our bases have changed. We have compiled all of the information about the ban into one article for our customers. From exclusive discounts, new technical documents and top tips to help you with the changes.

What Is Banned & When?

Product Notification - Removal of Pentasodium Pentatate.

Due to a ban of Pentasodium Pentetate, Stephenson has reformulated all soap bases which contain this ingredient. Click here to read more about the legal ban and the product declaration.

The soap bases include:

• Crystal Argan Oil
• Crystal Donkey Milk
• Crystal Aloe Vera
• Crystal Jelly Soap
• Crystal Solid Shampoo
• Crystal Clear Standard (ST)
• Crystal White No Sweat (WNS)
• Crystal Goats Milk
• Crystal Hemp
• Crystal Honey
• Crystal High Foaming (HF)
• Crystal Non Certified Organic (NCO)
• Crystal Clear No Sweat (NS)
• Crystal Oatmeal & Shea (OS)
• Crystal Olive Oil (OV)
• Crystal Shea Butter
• Crystal Clear SLS Free
• Crystal Suspending
• Crystal White SLS Free (WSLS)
• Crystal White Standard (WST)

The cosmetics industry has been given an off-shelf deadline of 1st December 2023 to remove all products from sale containing Pentasodium Pentetate. This means all products must be completely off market otherwise it will be illegal to sell them.

Stephenson have replaced the banned ingredient with Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate, which causes no adverse effect on product performance or properties.

You can read more from Stephenson here.

How We Can Help...

As this is a big and important change we want to help where we can. Due to the ban, any CPSRs containing one of the soap bases will become void. Meaning a new CPSR is required.

In order to help we have uploaded all new documents to our website, each one is labelled 'FROM DECEMBER 2022' to identify the most recent document.

We want to remind all customers that you must also update the product notification portal of any changes to your products.

Please Note: Any reports completed from December 2022 have used the new INCI for the affected bases and therefore do not need to be updated.

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