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The bill increases consumer transparency and preserves state-level ability to ban harmful ingredients, but does so at the cost of new compliance burdens, legal risks, and potential state-by-state variability that will disproportionately affect small manufacturers and sellers.
Consumers (including people with allergies or sensitivities) will get clearer ingredient disclosure because fragrance and flavor ingredients must be listed on-pack or on the brand website, improving transparency when shopping.
State governments retain authority to ban or limit harmful ingredients, enabling faster, local protective action for residents rather than waiting for federal rulemaking.
Brand owners and manufacturers get a clearer federal disclosure standard, which can help standardize labeling across the market and reduce uncertainty about what must be disclosed.
Small cosmetic makers will face increased compliance costs to update packaging, maintain website ingredient lists and links, and track disclosures, raising costs for small businesses.
Preserving broad state authority may produce a patchwork of differing state requirements, complicating interstate sales and increasing compliance complexity for manufacturers and retailers.
Products could be pulled from sale or companies face legal risk if labels or websites lack required disclosures, potentially reducing availability of some cosmetics and harming small sellers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Expands the FD&C Act definition of "cosmetic," requires fragrance/flavor ingredient disclosures on-pack or online, and makes nondisclosure a basis for deeming a cosmetic "adulterated."
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
Requires clearer ingredient disclosure for cosmetics by expanding the FD&C Act definition of "cosmetic" to include products sold for consumer and professional use, and creates new on-package and online disclosure duties for fragrance and flavor ingredients. Makes a cosmetic "adulterated" if required fragrance/flavor ingredient disclosures are not provided and clarifies that states keep certain authorities while limiting federal preemption to what the statute expressly says.