Rhode Island has 1 cosmetics ingredient law we track, naming 0 substances plus 1 class rule.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-18.18-4(a) (definitions § 23-18.18-3) · first date: January 1, 2027
“(a) Except as provided otherwise in this section, on and after January 1, 2027, no person shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale, or distribute for sale in the state any covered product that contains intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS.”Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov
“(a) Except as provided otherwise in this section, on and after January 1, 2027, no person shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale, or distribute for sale in the state any covered product that contains intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS.”Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov
“Enacted 06/19/2026”Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov
Cosmetics: articles applied to the human body for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness or altering the appearance, and their components; excludes soap. No leave-on/rinse-off distinction. Leave-on and rinse-off products.
Soap: Soap excluded. Definition of 'cosmetic' says the term shall not include soap.
“(ii) Articles intended for use as a component of any such article; except that such term shall not include soap.”Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov
Sell-through: None in the text.
Codified statute pages show history through P.L. 2025, ch. 21/24 (which added firefighting PPE). P.L. 2026, ch. 230/231 (identical H 7734 / S 2799, enacted 06/19/2026, effective on passage) did not change the cosmetics date; it added certified-mail notices and a new subsection (h) letting the DEM director grant renewable exemptions (up to 5 years per renewal) where a product benefits the environment or public health/safety, no technically feasible alternative exists and no comparable non-PFAS product is available at reasonable cost. Trace-impurity carve-out for cosmetics in (f). No sell-through. Enforced by the Department of Environmental Management; penalties apply from January 1, 2027.
“(iv) Cosmetics;”Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov
“(f) Notwithstanding any provision of this section, if a cosmetic product made through manufacturing processes intended to comply with this section contains an unavoidable trace quantity of PFAS that is attributable to impurities of natural or synthetic ingredients, the manufacturing process, storage or migration from packaging, or other such unintentional and unavoidable origin, such unavoidable trace quantity shall not cause the cosmetic product to be in violation of this section.”Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov
“(e) This section shall not apply to the sale or resale of used products.”Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov
“The use of PFAS as a processing agent, mold release agent, or intermediate is considered intentional introduction for the purposes of this chapter where PFAS is detected in the final covered product.”Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov
“(h) The director may grant, with modifications or conditions, an exemption for a product”Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov
“(2) There is no technically feasible alternative to the use of PFAS in the product; and”Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov
Intentionally added PFAS (all PFAS) in cosmetics (covered product) · from January 1, 2027 · R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-18.18-4(a) (definitions § 23-18.18-3)
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“on and after January 1, 2027, no person shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale, or distribute for sale in the state any covered product that contains intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS.”Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov
Definition:
“(19) "Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances" or "PFAS" means substances that include any member of the class of fluorinated organic chemicals containing at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom.”Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov