Cosmetic Hazardous Ingredient Right to Know Act of 2025

This bill makes cosmetic companies clearly list what’s in their products. It covers items sold to regular shoppers and used by salon pros. Brands must share every ingredient, including all fragrance and flavor ingredients, and say what those scents and flavors do. This information has to be on the brand’s website, and shared with online sellers, in a format people can read and search. If the required details are missing, the product would be out of compliance. States can still set tougher rules or ban certain chemicals.

Labels will also become more informative. After two years, packages must show the full ingredient list. If a product includes any ingredient that appears on trusted health hazard lists, the label must add a simple message pointing shoppers to the brand’s website for health information. These lists come from U.S. and international health agencies, like the EPA, CDC, WHO’s cancer agency, the EU, and California, and the FDA will build and update a single “master list” from them. Brands must update their website info within seven months when these lists change.

• Who is affected: Cosmetic brand owners, online sellers, shoppers, and salon/spa workers.
• What changes: Full ingredient lists online and on labels; fragrance and flavor ingredients must be named and explained; a link to safety data sheets for pro-use products; labels must point to more health info if certain flagged chemicals are present.
• When: Website listing starts 1 year after enactment; on-package listing (and health info message, if needed) starts 2 years after; FDA posts a master chemical list within 6 months and updates it regularly; brands have 7 months to update their disclosures after list changes.