Cosmetics
Placing a cosmetic product on the GB market means meeting the UK Cosmetics Regulation (retained Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009) - including notification through the Submit Cosmetic Notifications Portal (SCPN) and appointing a UK Responsible Person.
At Taylored Consultancy Ltd, we make cosmetic compliance clear and stress-free. From your Product Information File to your safety assessment and SCPN notification, we make sure your products meet UK requirements - and we keep you ahead of the growing divergence between UK and EU rules.
Clearing the path to market -
regulatory and quality expertise that gets your cosmetics safe, compliant, and ready for market.
Every cosmetic needs a safety assessment by a qualified assessor. We compile and review your CPSR so your product is demonstrably safe and compliant.
We help you build and maintain a complete PIF - the legally required dossier holding your formulation, safety and manufacturing information.
We check your formulation against the UK Annexes (prohibited, restricted and permitted substances) - including recent GB-specific bans and limits - so your product stays on the right side of the rules.
We review your labelling to ensure all mandatory information, warnings and claims meet UK requirements and are provided in English.
We review your marketing claims to ensure they are legal, decent, honest and properly evidenced.
We handle your Submit Cosmetic Product Notification (SCPN) so your product is correctly notified before going to market.
If you're based outside the UK, you need a UK Responsible Person. We act as your RP, taking legal responsibility for compliance, safety and record-keeping.
We help you implement cosmetics GMP to ISO 22716, the recognised standard underpinning the regulation.
Regulations can feel like a headache, but they don't have to be. We make sure you're covered, compliant, and ready to sell - without unnecessary delays or legal pitfalls.
ISO 22716 - Cosmetics Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
ISO 9001 - General quality management
ISO 14001 - Environmental management (where relevant)
Yes. Any cosmetic sold in Great Britain needs a UK Responsible Person named on the label, and if your business isn't established in the UK, you can't act as your own RP, so you'll need to appoint one. We provide UK RP services for overseas brands, taking on the legal accountability so you can sell into the UK market without setting up a local entity.
Broadly, yes, in substance. UK cosmetics law is the retained version of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, so the core safety, labelling and documentation requirements mirror the EU regime. The key difference is process: you need a UK Responsible Person and SCPN notification for the GB market, separate from your EU Responsible Person and CPNP notification, even if the formulation and PIF are identical.
The SCPN (Submit Cosmetic Product Notification) portal is the UK's system for notifying cosmetics before they go on sale in Great Britain. Your UK Responsible Person must submit notification details, including formulation and packaging information, before the product reaches the market, and it needs updating whenever significant changes are made to the product afterwards.
The UK Annexes set out ingredients that are prohibited outright, restricted to certain concentrations or uses, or permitted only with specific warnings, covering things like colourants, preservatives and UV filters. These lists are reviewed and updated over time, so a formulation review against the current Annexes is essential before launch, not just at the point you first developed the product.
Yes. Selling in both Great Britain and the EU means notifying separately through the SCPN and the CPNP, and appointing a Responsible Person in each region, since the UK and EU systems no longer talk to each other post-Brexit. The formulation, PIF and CPSR can often be shared across both, but the notification and RP steps are distinct legal requirements in each market.
UK cosmetic labels must include the product's function, ingredients list, net contents, expiry or period-after-opening, precautions for use, and the name and address of the Responsible Person, all in English. Labels also need to match what's declared in your PIF and notified through the SCPN, so label review is worth doing alongside your safety documentation rather than as an afterthought.
Switching is usually straightforward and doesn't require reformulating or relaunching anything. It's essentially an administrative handover: your new UK Responsible Person takes over the existing SCPN notification and PIF, confirms nothing about the product has changed, and updates the RP details on your label and paperwork. We handle the transition directly with your outgoing provider, so there's no gap in your compliance cover while the switch takes place.
A UK Responsible Person is legally accountable for a cosmetic's compliance in Great Britain, which covers keeping the PIF and CPSR up to date, ensuring the product is correctly notified through the SCPN, handling any serious undesirable effect reports, and acting as the point of contact for MHRA and Trading Standards enquiries. It's an ongoing legal responsibility, not a one-off registration task, which is why most overseas brands appoint a specialist rather than taking it on themselves.
Yes, we review cosmetic advertising and marketing content against the UK Advertising Standards Authority's CAP Code, covering everything from claims wording to the evidence you'd need if a competitor or the ASA challenged an ad. Getting this right proactively is far less costly than responding to an ASA ruling after the fact, so we build it into claims review rather than treating it as a separate step.
Still have questions? Contact us and we'll be happy to help.
