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Upload a formula and check it against rules in 15 markets. Each flag links to its source.
Brands, manufacturers, consultants, and retailers can work from the same checks and source texts.
Check SKUs before launch, keep PIF and MoCRA filings current, and get updates when a rule changes.
Clear client formulas from one workspace. Use the API to run the checks in your own systems.
Run checks, build documents, and prepare filings. Each result cites its source.
Check vendor formulas against your published clean program rules.
Run the check yourself in a few minutes.
Drop in a CSV, Excel, or PDF ingredient list, or paste plain INCI text. We match each name against a database of more than 33,000 ingredients.
Choose any of 15 markets, from the US and EU to the UK, Canada, Japan, Korea, China, Australia, Brazil, India, Singapore, Thailand, UAE, Mexico, and Taiwan.
We check each ingredient and amount against the markets you chose. Each flag links to the rule behind it.
Use one workspace from formula review through filing.
Screen against EU Annexes II, III, V and VI, US restrictions, the Health Canada Hotlist, and more. We hold over 1,300 restrictions, and each one links to the text it came from.
Prepare validated SPL XML and an ESG package for FDA facility registration and product listing. File through your FDA ESG account.
Log events, generate MedWatch Form 3500A, and track the 15-business-day reporting deadline. Records retained per MoCRA's 6-year rule (3 years for qualifying small businesses).
Build and maintain the PIF required by Article 11 of Regulation (EC) 1223/2009, organized per product and ready for a competent-authority request.
Prepare label text for each market, including INCI order, warnings, and required statements.
Check PFAS bans in seven states, ingredient lists in four states, California Prop 65, and New York's 1,4-dioxane limits. Each flag includes the text of the law.
Check all 81 labelled allergens under Reg. (EU) 2023/1545 against the stated amount and threshold. Track the 2026 and 2028 dates for each product.
VAIN saves each formula edit and shows which flags the change opened or cleared.
Check marketing claims against FDA examples, the FD&C cosmetic and drug rules, EU Reg. 655/2013, and FTC guidance. The review cites the source text.
Regulatory Studio checks its sources and screens your catalog again when a rule changes.
Each week, we check FDA notices and SCCS opinions and send any changes to your dashboard and inbox.
When a source changes, we screen your catalog again and show which flags opened or cleared for each product.
Keep decisions, CoAs, and claim support with each flag. If a file expires, VAIN reopens the flag and warns you.
Check formulas against the published rules for Clean at Sephora, Planet Aware, Ulta Conscious Beauty, Target Clean, and Walmart's Made Without List. Each result cites the retailer's document.
Check ingredients against 9,551 entries from EWG's Unacceptable List by name and CAS number.
Track sign-up dates, reports, and small-producer exemptions for the seven Circular Action Alliance states. Each result cites the law.
Import your Shopify catalog. VAIN pulls the INCI list from each product page so you can start a check.
Validated SPL XML and complete, submission-ready packages for facility registration and product listing.
Use the API from your own system or sync a catalog from VAIN Brand Studio.
Services differ by market. The list below shows what VAIN supports in each one.
MoCRA checks, facility registration, product listing, SPL files, filing packages, adverse events, and labels.
Annex screening with citations, PIF assembly, and label content under Regulation (EC) 1223/2009.
Restriction screening and market analysis for the UK, Canada, Japan, Korea, China, Australia, Brazil, India, Singapore, Thailand, UAE, Mexico, and Taiwan.
Compare the software and services available to your team.
Some small businesses qualify for exemptions. Answer two questions to see which rules may apply.
1. Were your average gross annual US cosmetic sales over the last 3 years under $1 million?
2. Do any of your products contact the eye's mucus membrane, get injected, get ingested, or alter appearance for more than 24 hours?
Based on Section 612 of the FD&C Act, added by the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022. This is general information, not legal advice.
Check one product or bring in your full catalog.