YourVoice.Now Summary
Your MoneyWorkers & JobsTransparency & AccountabilityCorporate BenefitsBrings synthetic braiding hair under FDA safety rules — and puts chemical safety sheets in salon workers' languages.
Your Money
Synthetic braids would be added to the legal definition of a cosmetic. The FDA would then have one year to write safety standards for them.
Braids that do not meet the new FDA standard could not be sold without a warning on the package. The maker would have to post the same warning on its website.
Workers & Jobs
Makers, sellers, and salon owners would have to supply chemical safety sheets in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Korean. Workers could ask for other languages.
Any salon or spa using professional beauty products would have to keep a safety sheet for each one. Owners would also have to show it to any worker who uses the product.
A new national center for salon worker health would make a visual guide, a training program, and a video. It would teach workers how to read chemical safety sheets.
Transparency & Accountability
States could require more information about synthetic braids, or stronger protections, than federal law does. States could also keep rules they already have.
Health and Human Services would publish what its funded studies find about chemicals in cosmetics. Each report is due within five years of the first grant in that program.
Corporate Benefits
The FDA would award grants to design cosmetic chemicals with no known health risks. Helping minority-owned companies make safer products is one of three stated priorities.
More about this bill
If you buy synthetic braiding hair, the packs would have to meet a federal safety standard. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would write that standard within a year of enactment. Braids that fail it would need a warning label on the package. The same warning would have to appear on the maker's website. Today, braiding hair is not clearly covered by federal cosmetic rules. The bill would add it to the legal definition of a cosmetic. States could still set stricter braid rules than the federal ones. Salon workers would get more information about the chemicals they handle. Within 18 months, the Labor Department would have to issue a new rule. Makers and sellers of professional beauty products would have to provide safety sheets for products with hazardous chemicals. Those sheets would have to be offered in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Korean. Other languages would be available on request. Salon owners would have to keep a sheet for every product used at work. They would also have to share it with any worker exposed to the product. About $45 million over five years would go to research and outreach. Health and Human Services would fund studies on chemicals in products marketed to women and girls of color. It would also fund studies on the health of nail, hair, and beauty salon workers. Those findings would be published for the public within five years of the first grant. Two new national centers would run training and outreach. One would serve affected communities. The other would serve salon workers. The FDA would also fund work on safer replacement chemicals. Minority-owned cosmetic companies would be one priority for that money.
Congressional Summary
Cosmetic Safety for Communities of Color and Professional Salon Workers Act of 2025This bill establishes programs and requirements to address the effects of harmful chemicals in cosmetics on consumers and salon workers, particularly in communities of color, and subjects synthetic braids to regulation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).Specifically, the FDA must establish safety standards for synthetic braids. Synthetic braids that do not meet such standards must be labeled with a specified warning.The bill also requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct (or award grants for) research on harmful chemicals most commonly found in cosmetics marketed to and used by women and girls of color and professional nail, hair, and beauty salon workers. HHS must publish reports summarizing this research, including recommendations for reducing potentially unsafe exposures.In addition, the FDA must award grants to support the development of alternative, safer chemicals that may be used in place of harmful chemicals in cosmetics.HHS must also establish, through grants to eligible entities, national resource centers on beauty justice and salon worker health and safety to educate consumers and salon workers, respectively, about harmful chemicals in cosmetics.Finally, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration must require manufacturers and importers of professional cosmetic products to make safety data sheets available in multiple languages for cosmetics that include certain hazardous chemicals. Employers, including salon operators, must make the relevant safety data sheet available to any employee exposed to a product subject to this requirement.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-07-16
- Date Added
- 2026-05-27
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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