This regulation, pursuant to Article 8 of the Cosmetics Act, is to ensure the management of manufacture (import) and safety management by defining standards of negative ingredients, restrictive ingredients used in cosmetics and by determining the matters related to cosmetic safety management standards in market. This regulation shall be applied all the cosmetics of manufacture, import or distribute.

Main contents:

Chapter 1 General provisions

• Purpose

• Scope of Application

Chapter 2 Raw Materials That May Not Be Used in Cosmetics and Standards for the Use of Raw Materials That Require Usage Restrictions

• Raw Materials that May Not Be Used

• Standards for the Use of Raw Materials that Require Usage Restrictions

Chapter 3 Prohibited Raw Materials for Custom Cosmetics 

• Negative List of Prohibited Raw Materials for Custom Cosmetics

Chapter 4 Safety Control Standards of Distributed Cosmetics

• Safety Control Standards of Distributed Cosmetics

• Reexamination of Regulations

Annex 1 Prohibited Ingredients

Annex 2 Restricted Ingredients

Annex 3 Safety standards on human cell and tissue culture media

Annex 4 Test methods of safety management on in-market cosmetics