Cosmetic Safety for Communities of Color and Professional Salon Workers Act of 2025

This bill aims to make cosmetics safer, with a special focus on communities of color and people who work in salons. It funds research to find harmful chemicals in products marketed to women and girls of color and to study health risks for salon workers, then shares findings with the public to help people reduce exposure. It also supports designing safer ingredients and gives priority to replacing risky chemicals in salon products and products marketed to women and girls of color, including help for minority-owned brands to reformulate.

The bill creates two national resource centers to provide outreach, education, and culturally relevant materials—one focused on “beauty justice” in communities of color and one on salon worker health and safety—with annual public reports. It also requires safety data sheets for professional-use cosmetics to be posted online and available in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, and other languages on request; salons must keep these sheets at work and share them with employees. FDA must regulate synthetic braids as cosmetics, set safety standards within one year, and require a clear warning if a product does not meet the standard; states can still set stronger rules.

• Who is affected
  • Communities of color (women and girls; men and boys), immigrant and language-minority communities, and the LGBTQIA community; professional salon workers; makers and sellers of professional-use cosmetics; salon employers; and makers of synthetic braids.
• What changes
  • Research grants on harmful cosmetic chemicals and health impacts, plus public reporting.
  • Grants to design safer cosmetic ingredients, with priority on salon products and products marketed to women and girls of color, and support for minority-owned companies to create safer formulas.
  • Two national resource centers to deliver outreach, training, school curricula, and public education campaigns.
  • Safety data sheets must be online and translated; salons must keep and share them.
  • FDA oversight of synthetic braids as cosmetics, safety standards, and product warnings if standards aren’t met; states may go further.
• When
  • OSHA must issue the safety-sheet rule within 18 months of enactment.
  • FDA must issue synthetic-braid safety rules within 1 year.
  • Annual public reports from both resource centers; 5‑year public reports on the research programs.
• Funding
  • $7.5 million for community-focused cosmetic safety research over five fiscal years; $7.5 million for salon worker research over five fiscal years; $10 million over five fiscal years to develop safer alternatives; and $2 million per year for FY2026–2030 for each resource center.