"How difficult is it for you to formulate for foreign markets?" question should impact every cosmetic formulator because most they all eventually have to create products for a global market where many regulations and ingredient availability and sources, among other things, may be different. So this important question was recently posed to the SpecialChem Community and here is how our members responded. I would have figured that this question would have had more responses from the Community than it did. Some companies do not even launch products in foreign markets. That could be one good reason for what I feel is a surprisingly low number of responses.