Our products are in strict compliance with regulatory requirements and do not use any banned ingredients

Banned cosmetic ingredients are prone to safety risks.  There are more than 1,300 kinds of banned ingredients or plant (animal) components in cosmetics as listed in Tables 1 and 2 of China's Safety and Technical Standards for Cosmetics 2015.  The cosmetic regulations of the European Union, the United States, Japan and other countries and regions also include many banned cosmetic ingredients.  Common banned ingredients include heavy metals, dioxane, asbestos, methanol, diethylene glycol, acrylamide, benzene, hydroquinone, phenol, antibiotics, hormones, coumarin and psoralen,etc.

Controversial ingredients are continually being reduced or banned from our product formulations

The Company strictly complies with the requirements of relevant domestic regulations and standards, while also paying close attention to the requirements of relevant international regulations and standards.  It reduces or prohibits the use of controversial ingredients in its products, plans replacements and upgrades for past formulations that historically used such ingredients, with the purpose of continuously eliminating and reducing the use of controversial ingredients.

Important chemical safety standards that the Company refers to (partial)

? Safety and Technical Standards for Cosmetics 2015 of China

? Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on cosmetic products of the European Union

? Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of the United States

? Standards for Cosmetics of Japan

? Safety-assessment reports on cosmetic ingredients published by the Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) of the United States

? Relevant assessment reports or opinions issued by the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) of the European Union

Standards we refer to in our pursuit of green and organic cosmetics (partial)

? COSMOS-standard

? 12 Principles of Green Chemistry

? C2C certification (Cradle to Cradle certification)

? GBT 27850-2011 Chemicals－Ready biodegradability－General considerations

? ISO16128-1/2 Guidelines on technical definitions and criteria for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients and products

? OECD 301 Ready Biodegradability Tests

? OECD 302 Inherent Biodegradability Tests

With reference to reliable international organic certification standards and upholding the principle of green first, we are committed to increasing the proportion of green, natural and organic ingredients used in our products.  We also give preference to using environmentally friendly packaging materials and apply low-carbon and environmentally friendly green manufacturing processes to ensure the safety, greenness and sustainability of our products

Product ingredient information disclosure

To ensure consumers' right to know and protect consumer interests, PROYA discloses specific information about product ingredients on product packaging in strict compliance with national laws and regulations to help consumers make better choices of the products they wish to use.  We are always committed to satisfying the needs of consumers, providing them with safer and more reliable products, and gathering further information about opinions and demands from them.

About natural and chemical ingredients

Throughout the long history of human development, the production of daily-use chemical products has long been dominated by natural ingredients due to technological restrictions.  With the rapid development of the modern chemical industry in the early twentieth century, chemically synthesized ingredients emerged as the mainstream ingredients for daily-use chemical products due to their excellent performance and high cost effectiveness.  As daily-use chemical products became more widely used, an increasing risk of human health hazards caused by using chemical ingredients or risky ingredients contained therein in products became evident, so the market turned its attention back to natural ingredients.

However, just because an ingredient is natural does not necessarily mean that it is safe to use, and the use of natural ingredients in daily-use chemical products still requires a safety assessment.  We never treat natural and chemical ingredients differently, nor do we ever stop exploring them.  We design and implement an effective ingredient screening system, and verify the safety and efficacy of ingredients through various tests, as we are committed to finding greener, safer and more effective ingredients for consumers.

About ingredients that pose a safety risk

Possible substances that pose a safety risk in products refer to substances that are extracted from raw materials, or generated or extracted during the production process, which may cause potential harm to human health. Substances that pose a safety risk usually have a relatively clear local toxicity (irritation, sensitization, phototoxicity, photosensitization), genotoxicity, repeated dose toxicity, reproductive toxicity or carcinogenicity, causing skin irritation, erythema, tingling, dermatitis and other cosmetic adverse reactions that endanger human health. They can also produce greater harm to animals and the environment. Laws and regulations in various countries set clear restrictions on substances with safety risks, and they are classified as restricted or banned ingredients.

To ensure our products remain safe to use, we are committed to ensuring that the substances in our products which have safety risks meet the standards of laws and regulations by using methods such as safety assessments, sanitary and chemical testing of raw materials and products, toxicological testing, and human safety testing to minimize the risk of human health hazards caused by our products.

Product safety largely comes from the safety of raw materials. The Company carefully selects high-standard raw materials and develops a strict quality control process for raw materials to ensure product quality.

Controlling the source of raw materials

The first step to ensure the quality of raw materials is to control the source of raw materials. We insist on source control and conduct comprehensive quality audits on each raw material supplier entering the raw material warehouse. Additionally, we only partner with qualified raw material suppliers to ensure that we can control the reliability and traceability of raw materials. While working closely with international cosmetic raw material companies, we have also signed strategic cooperation agreements with BASF, Ashland, CRODA, Evonik Industries, DSM and other raw material giants to guarantee the demand of unique raw materials. At the same time, we follow the requirements of national regulations and adopt the "raw material reporting code" to manage the source of cosmetic raw materials, controlling the product safety of cosmetics from the source.

Adhering to the quality control of raw materials

We are dedicated to providing high-quality and safe cosmetics. For each batch of raw materials entering the company, we do not rely on the results of the test reports attached to the raw materials, but rather set up our own stringent quality control standards under the premise of compliance with regulations and reasonably attainable levels. Our engineers test each batch of raw materials on a multidimensional basis on physical, chemical and microbiological indicators to ensure the purity of raw materials and strive to control the trace impurities, heavy metals and risky substances naturally present in raw materials to the lowest level practically achievable. Only raw materials that pass rigorous testing will be used, while ensuring that the product is safe for the user and the surrounding environment while in use.

Strictly abiding by national laws and regulations on cosmetics

Product safety is the core standard that PROYA adheres to, and product quality is the cornerstone for PROYA to build a foothold in the cosmetic industry. The products we produce strictly comply with national laws and regulations and relevant standard requirements. In this way, we provide consumers with safe and reliable products to meet their needs.

National laws and regulations on cosmetics (partial)

"Product Quality Law of the People's Republic of China"

"Law of the People's Republic of China on Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Consumers"

"Regulation on the Supervision and Administration of Cosmetics"

"Advertising Law of the People's Republic of China"

"Measures for the Administration of the Registration and Recordation of Cosmetics"

"Supervision and Administration Measures on Cosmetics Manufacture and Operation"

"Measures for Administration of Cosmetic Labels"

"Safety and Technical Standards for Cosmetics 2015"

"Provisions for Management of Cosmetic Registration and Notification Dossiers"

"Technical Guidelines for Cosmetics Safety Assessment (2021 Edition)"

"Cosmetics Classification Rules and Classification Catalog"

"Specifications for the Evaluation of Cosmetics Efficacy Claims"

"Working Rules for Cosmetic Registration and Filing Testing"

"Provisions for Management of New Cosmetic Ingredient Registration and Notification Dossiers"

"Provisions on the Supervision and Administration of Children's Cosmetics"

"Good Manufacturing Practice for Cosmetics"

"Inventory of Existing Cosmetic Ingredients in China 2021"

Strict quality management system

PROYA strictly abides by the Regulation on the Supervision and Administration of Cosmetics and related laws and regulations. We have established a set of product quality management systems from raw materials to finished products, from design and development to consumer use. This helps ensure that the production and sales of our products meet the requirements of national laws, regulations and standards, and that the efficacy, safety and quality of our products meet the needs and expectations of consumers. Our quality management strictly follows the requirements of the Good Manufacturing Practice for Cosmetics and has passed the certification of ISO 9001 quality management system standard Cosmetics - Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) - Guidelines on Good Manufacturing Practices ISO 22716:2007).

Effective means of product quality assurance

We have developed corresponding quality control standards according to the characteristics of different categories of products. The key quality control stages include safety assessment and audit of raw materials, development of audit standards for packaging materials, formulation stability, corrosion challenge tests, safety assessments, safety testing, efficacy verification and compliance inspection of finished products, as well as post-marketing monitoring and evaluation of adverse reactions to products, etc.