Products claim for treatment of conditions

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Also, the FDA isn't even allowing citing of established research or studies to support claims elsewhere in one's literature or websites. They're even examining what people say about their stuff in other places besides their direct advertising and labelling, such as blogs, facebook posts, invoices etc.

Because those claims would be supporting its use as a drug, not a cosmetic. It's not that the claims are wrong, it's that it makes it no longer a cosmetic, but a drug.
http://blog.mariegale.com/fda-cracking-down-on-cosmetic-product-claims/

You'd have to jump thru the hoops to get it approved as a drug unless it's already established as one of their 'monograph' drugs like some sunscreens or acne products, which would be labelled as drugs, not cosmetics.



And more on product claims

http://blog.mariegale.com/more-on-product-claims/

 

[grayceworks]

Ok, but on Marie Gale's label examples, it says the lotion is "deeply moisturizing". Doesn't that make it a "drug" since the inference is that the lotion will penetrate the epidermis and change the structure of the skin from "dry" to "moisturized"?? Or can you moisturize without affecting the skin structure? Stupid FDA and FTC - making our lives miserable, ha ha.

So we're saying that a "Honey & Oatmeal" soap is wrongly labeled? Is the perception that the bar contains ONLY honey and oatmeal that somehow magically mushed together and became a bar of soap?

Seriously, this is why I drink

Yeah, that's the perception according to them. For the reasons stated in her example about the 'shea butter' her friend got in a pump bottle lol.

From what I read on her site, moisturizing is cosmetic. It's adding moisture, changing external physical properties but not changing how the skin functions physiologically, ie, it's not making the skin make more moisture. Also, one can say soothing, but not healing, for example.