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2026 has brought real changes to the rules for selling cosmetics in the UK, from newly prohibited ingredients to tighter labelling. This guide covers what has changed and when it takes effect, alongside the standing requirements every product has to meet, and explains at each stage how we help brands stay compliant. It is general guidance rather than a substitute for a product-specific safety assessment or legal advice. The rules below apply to placing a cosmetic on the Great

Every so often an ingredient arrives with enough noise around it that it is worth stopping to look properly. BGT™ TDP-1 is one of those. It is being marketed as a fast-acting, "Botox-like" peptide that visibly softens wrinkles within fifteen minutes of application, and it carries an unusual selling point on top of that: the sequence was designed by artificial intelligence rather than discovered the traditional way. An AI-designed sequence and a fifteen-minute visible effect a

Peptides Peptides have become one of those skincare words that gets used so often it starts to feel meaningless. Almost every serum, cream, and eye product on the market now lists at least one of them on the front of the pack, usually alongside some impressive sounding claim. Some of those claims have real science behind them. Others are stretched far past what the evidence supports. That gap matters, especially if you are developing a product or trying to decide what to put

The phrase skin barrier is everywhere in skincare now, but it is often used so loosely that it loses meaning. In reality, the skin barrier is not just about dryness or sensitivity. It is a complex biological system that helps keep water in, irritants out, and the skin functioning as it should. When it is disrupted, the result is often skin that feels tight, reactive, dehydrated, rough, inflamed, or generally less able to tolerate products it once handled well. That is one rea