Safer Beauty Bill Package
At a Glance
The Safer Beauty Bill Package addresses critical gaps in cosmetic safety that impact everyone, especially women of color and professional salon workers. Support safer beauty for all!
Legislative Update: The Safer Beauty Bill Package was reintroduced in the 119th Congress in July 2025. The bill numbers changed with the new congress, and the content of the bills was updated, reflecting the evolving cosmetic safety legislative, market, and scientific landscapes.
The Modernization of Cosmetics Regulations Act of 2022 represents the biggest step forward for cosmetics regulation since 1938 (read our analysis). Despite this important progress, much work remains to be done to achieve a truly health-protective safety standard for cosmetics. That’s where the Safer Beauty Bill Package comes in.
Make Beauty Safer for All
Tell your member of Congress to support these bills to close dangerous gaps in federal law.
The Bills
Organizing Committee
The Organizing Committee responsible for the Safer Beauty bill package includes:
- Black Women for Wellness
- Breast Cancer Prevention Partners
- California Black Health Network
- California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative
- Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
- Consumer Reports
- WE ACT for Environmental Justice
- Women’s Voices for the Earth
Key Facts
These bills cover almost every aspect of personal care product safety. They will:
- Ban the worst first: Ban 18 of the most hazardous chemicals, including mercury, parabens, lead, asbestos, and toluene, plus the chemical classes of formaldehyde-releasing preservatives and ortho-phthalates. CA, MD, OR, WA, VT, and the European Union already ban some or all of these chemicals from cosmetic products, yet they are used in cosmetic products sold legally in the U.S.Defend the health of women of color and salon workers: These two vulnerable populations are among the most highly exposed to toxic chemicals because of the products marketed to them and those commonly found in their workplaces.
- Reveal hazardous chemicals, including secret fragrance and flavor ingredients: Require the disclosure of the unlabeled, and often toxic fragrance and flavor ingredients in retail cosmetic and professional use salon products on labels and websites. Plus, require brand owners to identify any ingredient in their cosmetic product that is linked to a serious negative impact on human health.
- Force supply chain transparency so cosmetic companies can get the information they need from their upstream suppliers to make safer products.
Endorsing Organizations, Businesses, & Government Agencies
NGOs
NGOs
1. Able Differently Utah
2. Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV)
3. Alaska Community Action on Toxics
4. Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
5. American Sustainable Business Network
6. Black Women for Wellness
7. Breast Cancer Action
8. Breast Cancer Coalition of Rochester
9. Breast Cancer Over Time
10. Breast Cancer Prevention Partners
11. California Black Health Network
12. California Brain Tumor Association
13. California Health Coalition Advocacy
14. California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative
15. California Nurses for Environmental Health and Justice
16. California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
17. CALPIRG
18. Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
19. Center for Biological Diversity
20. Center for Environmental Health
21. Citizens Campaign for the Environment
22. Clean and Healthy New York
23. Clean Beauty for Black Girls Co
24. Clean Production Action
25. Clean Water Action
26. CleanEarth4Kids
27. Consumer Federation of America
28. Consumer Federation of California
29. Defend Our Health
30. Ecology Center
31. Emphysema Foundation of America
32. Environmental Community Action (ECO-Action)
33. Families Advocating for Chemical and Toxics Safety
34. Friends Committee on Legislation of California
35. Friends of the Earth
36. Grassroots Environmental Education
37. Green America
38. Green Science Policy Institute
39. Hadassah
40. Harambee House Inc.
41. Informed Green Solutions
42. Iowa Breast Cancer Edu-action
43. Just the Goods
44. Kickapoo Peace Circle
45. Kids In Danger
46. Learning Disabilities Association of Alabama
47. Learning Disabilities Association of America
48. Learning Disabilities Association of Arkansas
49. Learning Disabilities Association of Connecticut
50. Learning Disabilities Association of Delaware
51. Learning Disabilities Association of Georgia
52. Learning Disabilities Association of Illinois
53. Learning Disabilities Association of Maine
54. Learning Disabilities Association of Michigan
55. Learning Disabilities Association of New Jersey
56. Learning Disabilities Association of New York
57. Learning Disabilities Association of Oklahoma
58. Learning Disabilities Association of South Carolina
59. Learning Disabilities Association of Texas
60. Learning Disabilities Association of Wisconsin
61. MADE SAFE
62. Maryland PIRG
63. Mercedes Parra Foundation
64. Mind the Store
65. Moms for a Nontoxic New York
66. National Center for Health Research
67. National Stewardship Action Council
68. National Toxic Encephalopathy Foundation
69. National Women’s Health Network
70. North Carolina Conservation Network
71. Oregon Environmental Council
72. PennPIRG
73. Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania
74. Recycle2riches
75. Safer Chemicals Healthy Families
76. Safer States
77. Science and Environmental Health Network
78. Sciencecorps
79. Sierra Club
80. SUP Ban
81. Tacoma Dominicans
82. The Keep A Breast Foundation
83. The Story of Stuff Project
84. Tigerlily Foundation
85. Toxic Free NC
86. Toxic-Free Future
87. Toxics Information Project (TIP)
88. Turning Green
89. U.S. PIRG
90. UCSF Breast Science Advocacy Core
91. United Steelworkers
92. Until Justice Data Partners
93. Vermont Conservation Voters
94. WE ACT for Environmental Justice
95. Westminster Board of Health
96. Women’s Voices for the Earth
97. Worksafe
98. Zero Waste Washington
Businesses
Businesses
99. 100% PURE
100. AF Consulting
101. Alaska Glacial Essentials Skincare
102. Amyris (Biossance/Pipette)
103. Avocado Green Brands
104. California Baby
105. Clean Mundi
106. Clear Consumption, LLC
107. Clearya
108. Counter
109. Credo Beauty
110. Crunchi, LLC
111. DEMES
112. Distance Learning Consulting
113. Dr. Bronner’s
114. Dr. Yolanda Whyte Pediatrics
115. Earth Mama Organics
116. EcoC2S
117. Eighty2degrees, LLC
118. Elavo Mundi Solutions, LLC
119. EO Products, LLC
120. Financial Alternatives
121. Grove Collaborative
122. Gryphon Solutions, LLC
123. Harrington Investments, Inc.
124. in Harmony Spa & Wellness Center
125. Innersense Organic Beauty
126. Intelligent I-N
127. Juice Beauty, Inc.
128. Klean Kanteen
129. Lena Rose Beauty
130. Meaningful Mantras
131. MirrorMirrorLove
132. NakedPoppy
133. National Foundry Products
134. Natural Glow Aesthetics
135. Nature’s Complement
136. Naturepedic Organic Mattresses
137. OSEA
138. OZNaturals
139. Pure Plant Home
140. Rosebud Woman
141. Salon FiG Salon Spa & Natural Essentials Store
142. Scivera
143. Seventh Generation
144. Sienna Girl Jones
145. Sienna Naturals
146. Simply Organic Beauty
147. Sprout San Francisco
148. Suntegrity Skincare
149. The Apothecary’s Daughter
150. The Twisted Willow
151. thesis beauty
152. Type:A
153. Uzziel Services LLC
154. Vasarii
155. VENTURE
156. W.S. Badger Company, Inc
Government Agencies
Government Agencies
Alameda County Public Health Department/DCDCP
San Francisco Dept. of the Environment
Press & Media
Press Briefing Replay: Hear from the bill authors and key supporting groups about why we need safer beauty and personal care products for all. (Coming Soon)
Contact information for advocates and business leaders in the clean cosmetics industry:
New Report!
In an alarming new report released today, Breast Cancer Prevention Partners reveals that over 98% of fragrance chemicals either lack basic safety data or are classified as high or potentially high concern by scientific authoritative bodies, linked to cancer, reproductive harm, endocrine disruption, and other serious health effects. The report exposes major flaws in the self-regulated, $50 billion fragrance industry, where harmful chemicals are routinely used in perfumes, personal care, beauty, and cleaning products—without consumer knowledge or consent.
Related Resources
Right to Know: Exposing Toxic Fragrance Chemicals Report
One little word – “fragrance” – can hide dozens if not hundreds of chemical ingredients on the labels of beauty and personal care products.
Glossary of Exposures
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