Three years after California passed the Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act, which bans certain ingredients (formaldehyde and mercury among them) from personal-care products sold in the state by 2025, a new bill seeking to expand that ingredient list has been signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsome.
The bill, which was introduced by Assemblymember Laura Friedman in February and passed in the state senate in September, declares that “no person or entity shall manufacture, sell, deliver, hold, or offer for sale in commerce any cosmetic product that contains” another 26 ingredients as of January 1, 2027.