About our company
EF Chemical Consulting Ltd was founded in 2006 by our principal consultant Dr Edmund Fowles, CChem, MRSC. He has been providing cosmetic safety assessments and product safety reports since 2008 for larger contract manufacturers, small European manufacturers, and importers into the EU. He is qualified to provide safety assessments under both the current EU cosmetics directive 76/768 and the new regulation 1223/2009. Unlike many safety assessors, he has cosmetic formulating experience. He has an extensive chemical manufacturing, process chemistry and R&D background, is experienced in classifying the toxicology of many of the ingredients used in cosmetics, and is well-placed to understand the possible impurities present. We are based in Chester in the North-West UK.
We have good contacts with, for example, analytical testing companies, contract manufacturers, and other consultants and we regularly work with other engineering and regulatory consultants where their experience complements our own. Dr E. H. Fowles is a member of CICA, an association of independent technical consultants, the SCS (Society of Cosmetic Scientists) and the Royal Society of Chemistry consultants group.
Contact Details
Telephone: (+44) 01244-351644
Email: edmund@efchemicalconsulting.co.uk.
Address: 17 Kings Crescent East, Great Boughton, Chester, CH3 5TH, UK
Career summary for Dr Edmund Fowles, CChem, MRSC
- Feb 2012: Attended 6-day advanced course on “Safety Assessment of Cosmetics in the EU” under Professor Vera Rogiers at VUB Universiteit, Brussels and passed the final course exam
- 2006 to date: Independent consultant chemist and safety assessor
- 2002-2006: Technical manager all UK cosmetics and coatings additives, Innospec Inc (formerly Octel) responsible for cosmetic formulators and other R&D staff. Responsibilities included formulation development, performance validation of new products, irritancy testing on new ingredients and safety datasheet generation, specialty additives for the inks market, surfactants and foam control agents. Attended CHIP classification course on substances and mixtures in 2004.
- 2000-2002: Associated Octel (now Innospec) Performance Chemicals Division. Section Head foam-control agents and coatings additives: new product development, technical service, safety data sheets.
- 1991-2000: Laporte Industries (now Rockwood Industries). Senior Chemist clay and alumina-based catalysts, then Section Manager iron oxide pigments - new product development and plant optimisation. This period involved developing new processes and products, performance evaluation and full-scale plant trials, optimisation and minimisation of impurities for cosmetic grade pigments.
- 1988-1990: California Institute of Technology. Postdoctoral research in inorganic catalysts
- 1985-1988: Leeds University. PhD in platinum group metal complexes and C-H activation
- 1984-1985: Amersham International. Research scientist
- 1981-1984: Cambridge University. BA in Natural Sciences (majoring in chemistry)