What are the regulatory challenges regarding microbiome in cosmetics?

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INTRODUCTION
Microbiome-related cosmetic products represent a fast-growing market, particularly strong in Asia. If North America is currently a large market, global growth forecasts are between 6 and 7% over the next 5 years.
Driven by consumers’ desire for natural and effective products, cosmetic market has seen an increasing number of products referring to the skin microbiome and covering all cosmetic types and application sites. Nevertheless, for most consumers, the words probiotics, prebiotics, postbiotics, microbiome still have a very obscure connotation.
Cosmed has gathered information to clarify the meaning of these terms, their potential use in cosmetics and the associated regulation.