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The bill increases consumer safety and transparency and lets states act more quickly on harmful ingredients, at the cost of new compliance burdens, legal risks, and potential market disruptions for small and professional-focused manufacturers.
Consumers gain clearer ingredient disclosure because fragrance and flavor ingredients must be listed on-pack or on brand websites, making it easier to identify potentially harmful ingredients when shopping.
State governments keep authority to ban or restrict harmful ingredients, enabling faster and locally tailored public-health protections than waiting for federal action.
Brand owners and manufacturers get a clearer federal disclosure standard, which can standardize labeling practices across the market and reduce uncertainty about federal requirements.
Small cosmetic makers must update packaging and maintain website ingredient lists/links, increasing compliance costs and operational burdens for small businesses.
Products could be pulled from sale or face legal risk if labels or websites lack required disclosures, potentially reducing availability of some cosmetics for consumers and threatening small sellers.
Manufacturers that previously sold only to professionals will now be explicitly covered, expanding regulatory obligations and compliance scope for those producers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Expands the federal cosmetic definition to include professional use and requires on-package or website disclosure of fragrance/flavor ingredients, failure to disclose is adulteration.
Official title: To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to increase transparency with respect to cosmetic ingredients, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 16, 2025 by Janice D. Schakowsky · Last progress July 16, 2025
Creates new federal requirements that change what products count as "cosmetics," require public disclosure of fragrance and flavor ingredients on product labels and brand websites, and treats failure to make those disclosures as making a product "adulterated." It also adjusts preemption language so states retain certain authorities and clarifies how the 2022 cosmetics modernization law interacts with state laws. The bill expands the statutory definition of cosmetic to explicitly include products sold for professional use, adds new mandatory on-package or on-website fragrance/flavor ingredient disclosures (with a required website link), and revises preemption language to preserve specific state powers around ingredient limits, reporting requirements in effect in 2022, and state rules that provide greater transparency or protection than the federal standard.