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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 directs modest federal funding and new requirements to generate research, transparency, training, and standards that can reduce toxic cosmetic exposures—especially for women, people of color, and salon workers—but its limited appropriations, implementation timelines, and compliance costs mean benefits may be slow to reach all communities and will impose burdens on small businesses and grant recipients.
Women, girls, and consumers of color will face lower chemical exposure risks as research, product reformulation priorities, and a new safety standard for synthetic braids push safer cosmetic formulations and labeling.
Salon, spa, and beauty workers (including many immigrants and non-English speakers) will get stronger workplace protections through safety data sheets in multiple languages, culturally tailored training, and employer-ready information to reduce occupational chemical exposures.
Taxpayers and the public gain improved transparency and evidence to guide policy—through standardized SDS requirements, public reports to Congress, and HHS website postings—enabling regulators, clinicians, and communities to act on documented exposures.
Affected communities and workers may not see timely protections because authorized research and reporting timelines and limited appropriations mean key findings and interventions could take years to produce and scale.
Small manufacturers, importers, distributors, and salon owners will incur compliance and operational costs (preparing, hosting, translating SDSs; meeting testing, labeling, and safety requirements), which could strain small businesses.
The bill increases federal outlays (multiple modest authorizations across programs), imposing additional taxpayer costs that may require offsetting budget priorities.
Based on analysis of 15 sections of legislative text.
Funds research and resource centers, requires OSHA SDS rules and multilingual access, and mandates FDA safety standards and labeling for synthetic braids to reduce harmful cosmetic exposures.
Directs HHS (through FDA when specified) and DOL (OSHA) to study, prevent, and reduce harmful chemical exposures from cosmetics that disproportionately affect communities of color and professional salon workers. The bill authorizes research grants, two national resource centers, funding for safer-chemical design, and an OSHA workplace standard requiring safety data sheets and multilingual access. Also amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to explicitly treat synthetic braids as cosmetics, requires warning statements and safety standards for synthetic braids, and preserves state authority to restrict ingredients or impose greater transparency.