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Introduced July 16, 2025 by Janice D. Schakowsky · Last progress July 16, 2025
The bill directs modest federal funding and new reporting, training, labeling, and targeted research to reduce hazardous chemical exposures—especially for salon workers and communities of color—while creating compliance costs for businesses and relying on limited funding and rulemaking timelines that may constrain reach and speed of protections.
Salon and spa workers (including non‑English speakers, immigrants, and women of color) will gain clearer hazard information, required multilingual Safety Data Sheets online and onsite, and culturally‑appropriate training—improving workplace safety and reducing chemical exposures.
Women and girls of color (and other at‑risk consumers) will benefit from targeted federal research to identify harmful cosmetic chemicals and inform safer-product recommendations and interventions.
Community organizations, universities, and nonprofits serving communities of color will receive grants and capacity building to run outreach, participatory research, and culturally appropriate risk‑communication programs.
Taxpayers face new federal spending authorizations and appropriations (multiple grant and program lines), requiring budget tradeoffs with other priorities.
The funding levels are modest in scale and in some cases spread thinly (small annual authorizations), which may limit the geographic reach, speed, and effectiveness of research, outreach, and protections for workers and communities.
Manufacturers, importers, distributors, and small salons will incur additional compliance, testing, labeling, translation, and reformulation costs that could raise product prices and operational burdens for small businesses.
Based on analysis of 15 sections of legislative text.
Creates federal research, training, outreach, product-safety, and translation requirements aimed at reducing harmful chemical exposures from cosmetics marketed to and used by communities of color and professional salon workers. It funds targeted grants and two national resource centers, directs development of safer cosmetic formulations, requires translated safety data sheets for professional-use cosmetics, and orders FDA rulemaking and OSHA standards on related safety and labeling issues. Sets deadlines for agency action (OSHA standard within 18 months; FDA rule on synthetic braids within 1 year), requires reports within five years on research findings, and authorizes multiyear funding streams for research, product reformulation grants, and resource centers to support outreach, education, and culturally and linguistically appropriate interventions.