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The Cosmetics Rules, 2020

apply to cosmetics under India’s Drugs and Cosmetics Act.

The Cosmetics Rules, 2020 apply to cosmetics under India’s Drugs and Cosmetics Act. The extractable rules include impurity limits for permitted cosmetic colours and mercury limits for eye-area cosmetics and other finished cosmetics. The arsenic trioxide line, grouped heavy-metals line, and colouring-use prohibitions for lead and arsenic compounds are documented on the regulation page and gap-logged where they cannot be represented as species-specific elemental concentration rows.

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