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Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to cosmetic safety, with an emphasis on communities of color and professional salon workers, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 16, 2025 by Janice D. Schakowsky · Last progress July 16, 2025
The bill funds targeted research, multilingual workplace protections, outreach, and product standards that improve safety for salon workers and consumers (especially women and people of color), but benefits are limited and delayed by modest appropriations and impose new compliance and administrative costs on small businesses and grantees.
Salon and personal-care workers — many of whom are women, immigrants, and people of color — will get stronger workplace protections (standardized safety data sheets, multilingual access, and culturally tailored training), improving awareness of hazards and reducing occupational chemical exposures.
Consumers, especially women and people of color, will benefit from research-driven product safety improvements and prioritized replacement of harmful chemicals in products marketed to them, enabling safer product guidance and reduced exposure risks over time.
Federal grants and technical assistance will build local capacity through community-based participatory research, funding to nonprofits and colleges, and help for minority-owned businesses to develop safer formulations and outreach programs.
Overall appropriations and authorizations are modest (multiple small pots such as $7.5M, $10M, $2M/year), and the limited funding may be insufficient to support nationwide studies, broad industry reform, or sustained outreach — slowing or constraining benefits for many communities.
Small manufacturers, importers, distributors, and small salon owners face new compliance costs (preparing/hosting/translating SDSs, testing, labeling, meeting safety standards) that could be significant for tight-margin businesses.
Key research findings and formal recommendations may take up to five years to compile and report, meaning workers and consumers likely will not get timely protections from harmful exposures.
Based on analysis of 15 sections of legislative text.
Funds research and resource centers, requires OSHA SDS rules for professional cosmetics, and regulates synthetic braids with safety standards and labels.
Creates federally funded research programs, grant-funded resource centers, and an OSHA rule to study and reduce harmful chemical exposures from cosmetics — with special focus on products marketed to women and girls of color and on professional salon workers. It funds community-based research, supports development of safer ingredients and replacement technologies, establishes two national resource centers for community and salon-worker outreach/training, requires multilingual safety data sheets for professional products, and directs FDA rulemaking to regulate synthetic braids as cosmetics with safety standards and labeling requirements.