The Safe Cosmetics Act may have started out with good intentions, but the results, if passed, will be anything but helpful or beneficial. With no exemptions for small business, its maze of regulation and restrictions will end up destroying cottage industries and small entrepreneurs all over this country.

From the Care2 Petition site (where you can read more about the effects of this proposed legislation):

“While we are unquestionably in favor of safe cosmetics, this bill contains a number of unnecessary provisions that would decimate our nation’s small scale cosmetics manufacturers without any benefit at all to consumers.
This bill treats a company making 100 bottles of lotion each year the same way it treats a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company making 100 bottles of lotion each second.”

In short, this act will hurt small business owners.  It will hurt the person who sells soaps or bath salts at the local farmer’s market.  It will hurt the small cosmetics maker who cannot keep up with the intricate and complicated and expensive regulations that will be required.   It will hurt you, if you dream of creating your own line of natural products.  

You can read the full act here to find out exactly why this is such a bad idea.  Here is the link for the breakdown of the bill’s major flaws, from the Care2 Petition Site, where you can get informed and sign the petition. We also strongly urge you to write or call your Congressional representative to share your concerns.