REGULATION AND POLICY

What's Banned, What Isn't, and Why.

The US bans roughly 11 ingredients from cosmetics. The EU bans more than 1,300. California, Maine, and Minnesota are filling the federal gap with PFAS-disclosure laws, ingredient bans, and recall powers, but the patchwork is hard to follow [regulatory review]. This section keeps you current on what's about to be banned, which states are leading, what the FDA and EPA have done in the last 24 months, and what gets quietly repackaged after a recall. We also map US rules against EU REACH, Canadian CMP, and the California Safer Consumer Products list so you can see the gap on a single page. The goal is to give you a reliable read on which products are about to disappear from shelves, which ones are already banned somewhere you don't live, and what the credible alternatives look like before the policy lands.

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