Legal Question in Consumer Law in California

Re: Selling home made cosmetics

You may have a gold mine there. Call me directly at 6192223504.

Re: Selling home made cosmetics

The answer to your question really depends what the ingredients are. Your opinion that no medications or drugs are involved is irrelevant. Your list of ingredients may or may not contain a regulated substance and the character of the ingredients will usually determine if it is regulated. Your statement that the lotion has an anti-inflammatory property is a red flag to me.

Did you know that the FDA regulates anti-perspirants but not deodorants? Anti-perspirants contain a chemical that alters a natural bodily function but deodordants are just perfumes. Therefore, knowing all the ingredients is of the utmost importance for an attorney to properly advise you in this matter.

Re: Selling home made cosmetics

The FDA regulations are designed to protect big business from competition (you would be required to spend hundreds of thousands of $$ to prove your compound is absolutely safe) and yes, you could run afoul of them no matter how safe the ingredients you are using. My best guess is you will be able to stay under their radar, at least for a while, unless you are importing or exporting the stuff through customs. Probably nothing bad would happen to you except you might get a notice to cease and desist and, who knows, you might be profitable enough by then to afford good legal and/or scientific help. Google for the "GRAS List" (ingredients that are Generally Recognized As Safe). Of course, FDA will claim that even your GRAS ingredients, mixed together, might be unsafe and the compound would still need to go through all the testing and approval hoops. You might want to contact a patent lawyer about whether or not your concoction might be patentable (in which case some big corporation might offer to buy the patent from you).