On December 31, 2021, China’s National Medical Product Administration (NMPA) launched an online cosmetic ingredient submission platform. This platform, Cosmetic Ingredients Safety Information Registration Platform, will require companies handing existing cosmetic ingredients to submit information. The platform is created based the requirements of CASR (state council order No.727).  For foreign cosmetic ingredient manufacturers, they can create their own accounts to submit information, or authorize representative companies to submit ingredient information on their behalf.  

On December 31, 2021, China’s National Medical Product Administration (NMPA) launched an online cosmetic ingredient submission platform. This platform, Cosmetic Ingredients Safety Information Registration Platform, will require companies handing existing cosmetic ingredients to submit information. The platform is created based the requirements of CASR (state council order No.727).  For foreign cosmetic ingredient manufacturers, they can create their own accounts to submit information, or authorize representative companies to submit ingredient information on their behalf.  

Cosmetics Raw Material manufacturers, domestic or overseas, are required to submit to the Cosmetic Ingredients Safety Information Registration Platform. Manufacturers can submit information by themselves, or they can appoint an authorized representative to submit and maintain ingredient safety information on their behalf. This applied to cosmetic raw materials regardless of its tonnage.  

This applies to two types of substances:  

1. Substance that are included in IECIC (Chemical Inventory, Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances Produced or Imported in China) but not listed in IECSC (Inventory of Existing Cosmetic Ingredients Produced or Imported in China)  

2. Substances that are listed in IECIC and IECSC.  

Basic information and manufacturing process  

1. Trade name  

2. Composition  

3. Basic properties  

4. Purpose of use 

5. Suggested percentage in cosmetics 

6. Restrictions on the use of raw materials  

7. Properties  

8. Physical and chemical properties  

9. Brief statement of the Manufacturing process  

Quality control requirements and characteristic indicators  

1. Identification method  

2. Quality and characteristics of ingredients  

Limit requirements for risky substances

1.  Heavy metal  

2. Microbiology indicators  

3. Pesticide residue risk  

4. Others  

Assessment conclusions of international authorities  

Brief description of the requirements for use in other industries  

Other issues to be explained