# 119-hr-4436: Cosmetic Safety for Communities of Color and Professional Salon Workers Act of 2025 119-hr-4436, Cosmetic Safety for Communities of Color and Professional Salon Workers Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] (D-IL); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4436 - As of: 2026-10-17 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: 119-hr-4436 - Congress: 119 - Title: Cosmetic Safety for Communities of Color and Professional Salon Workers Act of 2025 - Status: introduced - Introduced: 2025-07-16 - Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] (D-IL) - Cosponsors: 17 - Policy area: Health - Touches household money: yes - Last recorded action: 2026-10-17 ## Summary **Reduce harmful chemical exposures in cosmetics used by women and girls of color and by professional salon workers.** This bill would fund targeted research, create national resource centers, require multilingual Safety Data Sheets for professional products, and expand FDA oversight to cover synthetic braids. - Families and communities: Funds research into chemicals commonly found in products marketed to women and girls of color and how those exposures affect health across lifespans. Eligible grantees include universities and community organizations and grants of $7.5 million are authorized for those studies. - Salon workers and workplaces: Supports research on chemicals used by professional nail, hair, and beauty workers and requires the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue a standard within 18 months so manufacturers and employers provide Safety Data Sheets in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, and other languages; a National Resource Center on Salon Worker Health is authorized at $2.0 million per year for 2026–2030. - Manufacturers and regulators: Authorizes $10.0 million in grants (2026–2030) to design non-toxic cosmetic chemicals, assist minority-owned companies to reformulate safer products, and directs the FDA to set safety standards and labeling rules for synthetic braids within one year. *Would authorize about $45.0 million in new appropriations through 2030 and increase federal spending if those funds are appropriated.* ## Cosponsors (17) - Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1] (D-ME), 2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Pressley, Ayanna [D-MA-7] (D-MA), 2025-07-16T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-6] (D-MI), 2025-07-16T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Evans, Dwight [D-PA-3] (D-PA), 2025-07-16T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Khanna, Ro [D-CA-17] (D-CA), 2025-07-16T00:00:00.000Z - Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] (D-DC), 2025-07-16T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Thanedar, Shri [D-MI-13] (D-MI), 2025-07-16T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12] (D-MI), 2025-07-16T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12] (D-NJ), 2025-07-16T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Jacobs, Sara [D-CA-51] (D-CA), 2025-07-17T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-37] (D-TX), 2025-07-23T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-7] (D-CA), 2025-08-01T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Lee, Summer L. [D-PA-12] (D-PA), 2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-9] (D-NY), 2026-04-21T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Fletcher, Lizzie [D-TX-7] (D-TX), 2026-04-27T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Velázquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7] (D-NY), 2026-07-14T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Stansbury, Melanie A. [D-NM-1] (D-NM), 2026-09-15T00:00:00.000Z ## Provisions PRIA read - Grants to replace harmful cosmetic chemicals: benefit, low. If enacted, HHS, through FDA, would award grants to design cosmetic chemicals with no inherent toxicity. Priority would go to replacing hazardous chemicals in salon products and in products marketed to women and girls of color. Minority-owned cosmetic companies could get help to make safer formulas… - National centers for safer beauty: benefit, low. The bill would create two national centers to reduce toxic cosmetic exposures. One focuses on salon worker health and safety. The other, a Beauty Justice center, serves underserved groups, including communities of color, immigrant and language‑minority groups, and LGBTQIA people. They could do outr… - Research on cosmetics harms for women and workers: benefit, low. The bill would fund two research efforts. One studies chemicals in products marketed to women and girls of color. The other studies chemicals used by salon workers and safer alternatives. Results would be shared, with a public report due within 5 years of the first grant for each effort. It authori… - Multilingual safety sheets for salon products: mixed, medium. If enacted, the Labor Department would issue an OSHA rule within 18 months. Makers and importers of professional cosmetics with hazardous chemicals would need safety data sheets online in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Korean, and other languages on request. Distributors and salon owner… - FDA safety rules for synthetic braids: mixed, medium. This bill would treat synthetic braids as cosmetics. FDA would set safety standards within 1 year. Braids that do not meet the standard would need this warning on the package and website: "This product does not meet the FDA's standard of safety for synthetic braids." Not using the warning would mak… - States could set stronger cosmetics rules: mixed, low. The bill would let states keep or add stronger rules on cosmetic ingredients. States could keep older ingredient-reporting laws and set extra protections for synthetic braids. It clarifies the 2022 federal cosmetics law does not override state laws except where it clearly says so. This could raise… ## Related bills - 119-hr-9877: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026 - 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act - 119-hres-1058: Recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights to protect and codify the rights of transgender… - 119-hr-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act - 119-hr-20: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025 - 119-hr-2086: Rights for the TSA Workforce Act ## Sources - [119-hr-4436 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4436) ## Related - [119-hr-9877: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9877) - [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973) - [119-hres-1058: Recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop and implem…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hres-1058) - [119-hr-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-51) - [119-hr-20: Richard L. 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