Do cosmetic ingredients, such as antioxidants and preservatives, need to be listed on product labels?
The ingredient information of cosmetics is essential for consumers to choose cosmetics that suit their needs. Some ingredients may cause allergies for some consumers. Consumers can avoid known allergens by checking the product's full ingredient information.
In order to protect consumers' right to know, the Measures for the Administration of Cosmetics Labels stipulates that the standard Chinese names of all ingredients of cosmetics should be marked on the product labels, with "ingredients" as the guide word, and listed in descending order of the content of each ingredient in the product formula.
Cosmetic ingredients is refers to the process of production purposefully added to the product formula, and play a role in the final product, in order to ensure the quality of cosmetics raw material and added to the raw material is very tiny amounts of antioxidants, preservatives, stabilizers such as ingredients, while when applying for registration or registration in the form of raw materials for the distribution of the product formula is allowed, However, ingredients that do not belong to cosmetics may not be marked on the product label. Of course, businesses can also label products to give consumers a full picture of possible ingredients in a product.
In short, very minor amounts of antioxidants, preservatives, stabilizers and additional ingredients added to cosmetic ingredients to ensure the quality of the ingredients may or may not be labeled.
2026-07-25
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