--- title: FDA: Senators Propose Personal Care Products Safety Act description: Senator Dianne Feinstein and Senator Susan Collins proposed a bill that would give the FDA authority to regulate the safety of beauty products canonical: https://time.com/4777231/fda-bill-cosmetics-feinstein-collins/ author: Kate Samuelson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-12T15:30:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:05:36.373Z og:title: Senators Propose Bill to 'Ensure the Safety of Cosmetics' og:description: "We urgently need to update the nearly 80-year-old safety rules" og:url: https://time.com/4777231/fda-bill-cosmetics-feinstein-collins/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a546b607d7c3b0a/6988cd137cdbac7f56d58542/gettyimages-455116081.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4912 og:image:height: 2763 og:image:alt: Profile of woman made of the shadow of cosmetics og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Senators Propose Bill to 'Ensure the Safety of Cosmetics' twitter:description: "We urgently need to update the nearly 80-year-old safety rules" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a546b607d7c3b0a/6988cd137cdbac7f56d58542/gettyimages-455116081.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Senators Propose Bill to 'Ensure the Safety of Cosmetics' > Sponsored content. 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It is a free newsletter available at time.com/newsletters. by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson May 12, 2017 3:30 PM UTC  Hiroshi Watanabe—Getty Images by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson May 12, 2017 3:30 PM UTC Two senators have proposed a bill that would amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to “ensure the safety of cosmetics.” [The Personal Care Products Safety Act](https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/%5Fcache/files/8/a/8a09f000-9a16-478e-9524-45f4618c8780/63C58003C6DE5D1A504FBD47FE2D114B.tam17a00.pdf), proposed by Senator Dianne Feinstein and Senator Susan Collins, would give the FDA the authority to regulate the safety of beauty products, [_The Cut_](http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/05/the-personal-care-products-safety-act-will-regulate-beauty.html)reports. At the moment, the law [does not require](https://www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/GuidanceRegulation/LawsRegulations/ucm074162.htm) cosmetic products and ingredients (other than color additives) to have FDA approval before they go on the market. The FDA considers items including moisturizers, perfumes, lipsticks, nail polishes and eye and face makeup as cosmetic products, but does not include soap. It is currently the responsibility of cosmetic manufacturers to ensure that their products are safe to use, rather than the FDA — which is something that Feinstein and Collins think should change. If their bill is passed, the FDA would have much more power. For example, if the FDA determines that a cosmetic has been adulterated, misbranded or is likely to cause “serious adverse health consequences or death,” it can force a person responsible for the item to “immediately cease distribution.” “From shampoo to lotion, everyone — women, men, children — uses personal-care products every day,” Feinstein told _The Cut_. “Despite the universal use of these products, none of their ingredients have been independently evaluated for safety. This puts consumers’ heath at risk and we urgently need to update the nearly 80-year-old safety rules.” \[H/T [_The Cut_](http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/05/the-personal-care-products-safety-act-will-regulate-beauty.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4777231/fda-bill-cosmetics-feinstein-collins/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4777231/fda-bill-cosmetics-feinstein-collins/"},"headline":"Senators Propose Bill to 'Ensure the Safety of Cosmetics'","datePublished":"2017-05-12T15:30:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:05:36.373Z","description":"'We urgently need to update the nearly 80-year-old safety rules'","url":"https://time.com/4777231/fda-bill-cosmetics-feinstein-collins/","keywords":["motto","beauty","Legislation","Cosmetics","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a546b607d7c3b0a/6988cd137cdbac7f56d58542/gettyimages-455116081.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kate Samuelson","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a546b607d7c3b0a/6988cd137cdbac7f56d58542/gettyimages-455116081.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Profile of woman made of the shadow of cosmetics","caption":"Profile of woman made of the shadow of cosmetics","creditText":"Hiroshi Watanabe—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4777231/fda-bill-cosmetics-feinstein-collins/","name":"Senators Propose Bill to 'Ensure the Safety of Cosmetics'"}}]}] ```