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The bill improves consumer safety and transparency by requiring ingredient disclosures and preserving state-level protection, but it imposes new compliance costs and could create inconsistent state rules that disproportionately burden manufacturers, especially small companies.
Consumers nationwide gain clearer ingredient information because brands must disclose fragrance and flavor ingredients on packaging and websites and provide URLs to full ingredient lists.
State governments retain authority to restrict or ban specific cosmetic ingredients, enabling stronger local protections for public health where states choose to act.
Existing state ingredient‑reporting regimes are preserved, so current local oversight and data collection continue without interruption.
Brand owners and manufacturers will face additional compliance costs to update packaging, maintain website disclosures, and provide ingredient lists/URLs.
Preserving state authority can produce inconsistent rules across states, complicating product availability and compliance for nationwide products and confusing consumers.
Smaller companies are likely to be disproportionately burdened by the technical and administrative work required to meet expanded disclosure and reporting requirements.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Expands the federal cosmetic definition to include professional-use products, requires fragrance/flavor disclosure and website ingredient lists, and preserves state authority for stricter rules.
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to broaden the legal definition of "cosmetic" to explicitly cover products sold for consumer and professional use, adds a new definition for "professional use," and makes several transparency and disclosure changes in the cosmetics chapter. It requires disclosure-related provisions addressing fragrance and flavor ingredient information, packaging omissions, and a requirement that brand-owner websites link to specified ingredient lists, while also preserving state authority to adopt or keep stricter requirements.
Introduced July 16, 2025 by Janice D. Schakowsky · Last progress July 16, 2025