New Mexico has 1 cosmetics ingredient law we track, naming 0 substances plus 1 class rule.
Laws 2025, ch. 102, § 3(C)(3) (HB 212) · first date: January 1, 2028
“4 (3) cosmetics;”Source: nmlegis.gov
“section, beginning January 1, 2028, a manufacturer shall not 23 sell, offer for sale, distribute or distribute for sale in”Source: nmlegis.gov
Cosmetics: a product or product component, other than soap, intended to be applied to the human body for cleansing, beautifying or promoting attractiveness. No leave-on/rinse-off distinction. Leave-on and rinse-off products.
Soap: Soap excluded. Definition of 'cosmetic' covers products 'other than soap'.
“G. "cosmetic" means a product or product 23 component, other than soap, intended to be applied to the 24 human body for cleansing, beautifying or promoting 25 attractiveness;”Source: nmlegis.gov
Sell-through: None in the text.
Cited from the final bill text; signed April 8, 2025 as Laws 2025, ch. 102 (per the nmlegis.gov bill page). Codified in NMSA 1978 chapter 74, article 15 (section number not verified from an official source). The ban runs against manufacturers. Exempt: used products, FDA-regulated drugs/devices, products where the Environmental Improvement Board has found a currently unavoidable use, and products containing fluoropolymers (polymer with per/polyfluorinated carbon-only or perfluorinated polyether backbone that is solid at standard temperature and pressure) — which may take e.g. PTFE-containing cosmetics outside the ban. No trace-impurity carve-out and no sell-through. NMED rules (effective July 1, 2026) are being challenged in state and federal court (2026); no injunction against the statutory cosmetics ban was found, but this was not verified from court records.
“6 (2) used products offered for sale or”Source: nmlegis.gov
“(16) a product that contains fluoropolymers 6 consisting of polymeric substances for which the backbone of 7 the polymer is either a per- or polyfluorinated carbon-only 8 backbone or a perfluorinated polyether backbone that is a 9 solid at standard temperature and pressure.”Source: nmlegis.gov
“25 manufacture of a product where the continued presence, at any”Source: nmlegis.gov
Intentionally added PFAS in cosmetics (solid fluoropolymers exempt) · from January 1, 2028 · Laws 2025, ch. 102, § 3(C)(3) (HB 212)
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“4 (3) cosmetics;”Source: nmlegis.gov
Definition:
“S. "per- or poly-fluoroalkyl substance" means a 3 substance in a class of fluorinated organic chemicals 4 containing at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom;”Source: nmlegis.gov