I. Protection of health The safeguarding of public health is the main purpose of the Cosmetics Directive (76/768/EEC)3 and this is also reflected accordingly in the national regulations of the Member States concerning trading with cosmetic products. To protect the consumers, it is therefore set out correspondingly in Art. 2 of the Cosmetics Directive that cosmetic products put on the market within the EU should not be liable to cause damage to human h