Cosmetic Adverse Event Reports
FDA adverse event data for cosmetic products. Browse by category, brand, or specific product. Reports come from consumers, health professionals, retailers, and cosmetic manufacturers.
Browse by category
The 13 cosmetic product categories as defined by FDA (21 CFR Part 720). Each category page aggregates all FDA reports for products in that category.
Skin Care
Skin care products include moisturizers, serums, cleansers, toners, sunscreens, and treatment creams applied to the skin. This category...
Hair Care
Hair care products including shampoos, conditioners, hair masks, leave-in treatments, styling gels, sprays, mousses, and hair smoothing or...
Hair Coloring
Hair coloring preparations including permanent dyes, semi-permanent dyes, bleaches, highlighting kits, and color rinses. Hair dyes have...
Eye Makeup
Eye-area cosmetics including mascara, eyeliner, eyeshadow, brow products, and eye primers. Reports in this category often involve ocular...
Face Makeup
Face makeup products including foundation, concealer, powder, blush, bronzer, highlighter, primer, and setting sprays. Lip products are...
Lip Products
Lip cosmetics including lipsticks, lip glosses, lip stains, lip liners, lip balms, and lip plumpers. Lip products are subject to incidental...
Fragrance
Fragrance products including perfumes, eau de toilette, eau de parfum, body sprays, and scented mists. Fragrance is a leading cause of...
Body Wash & Soap
Personal cleanliness products including body washes, bar soaps, liquid hand soaps, exfoliating washes, and intimate cleansers. High-volume...
Bath Products
Bath additives including bath bombs, bubble baths, bath salts, bath oils, and bath soaks. Often cited in adverse events involving prolonged...
Deodorant & Antiperspirant
Underarm products including roll-on, stick, spray, and natural deodorants, plus antiperspirants containing aluminum salts. Common reaction...
Shaving Products
Shaving preparations including shaving cream, gel, foam, after-shave lotions, after-shave balms, and pre-shave oils. Common reactions...
Nail Products
Nail products including polishes, polish removers, treatments, glues, and artificial nail systems. Acrylate-based products are a recurring...
Baby & Children's Cosmetics
Cosmetic products specifically formulated for infants and children, including baby lotion, baby shampoo, baby powder, and children's...
Top products by report volume
Specific named products (not brands) with the most FDA reports. Some entries here will look like brands - that's a quirk of the data set's free-text product field, which doesn't formally distinguish brand from product.
- Johnsons Powder No Upc 34,352
- J And J Baby Powder 30,847
- Shower To Shower No Upc 22,263
- Shower To Shower Powder 16,833
- Shower To Shower Talcum Powder 3,414
- Johnsons Powder 1,839
- Johnson'S Powder 1,582
- Johnson'S Baby Powder 833
- Johnsons Baby Powder Unspecified 621
- Wen Cleansing Conditioner 415
- Shower To Shower 297
- Shower To Shower Talcum Product 279
- J&J Baby Powder Usa 234
- Wen 164
- Monat Renew Shampoo 136
- Eos Lip Balm 109
- Shower To Shower Powder(Powder) 94
- Wen Sweet Almond Mint Cleansing Conditioner 92
- Wen Shampoo 72
- Devacurl No-Poo 70
- J And J Baby Powder(Johnson And Johnson Baby Powder) Powder 68
- Devacurl One Condition 67
- Tattoo Ink 64
- Wen Sweet Almond Mint 64
- Monat 62
- Gold Bond 61
- Devacurl Ultra Defining Gel 58
- Shower To Shower Powder(Sodium Bicarbonate, Calcium Phosphate, Maltodextrin, Talc, Zea Mays Starch)(Powder)(Sodium Bicarbonate, Calcium Phosphate, Maltodextrin, Talc, Zea Mays Starch) 57
- Shower To Shower Talcum 57
- Brazilian Blowout 56
- Shower To Shower Powder(Calcium Phosphate, Maltodextrin, Sodium Bicarbonate, Talc, Zea Mays Starch)(Powder)(Calcium Phosphate, Maltodextrin, Sodium Bicarbonate, Talc, Zea Mays Starch) 55
- Devacurl 53
- Monat Revive Shampoo 52
- Olaplex No.4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo 51
- Johnsons Baby Powder 50
- Olaplex No.5 Bond Maintenance Conditioner 50
- Monat Revitalize Conditioner 49
- Dove Dry Shampoo 46
- Wen Hair Products 46
- Shower To Shower Powder(Calcium Phosphate, Maltodextrin, Sodium Bicarbonate, Talc, Zea Mays Starch) Powder 45
- No.4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo 45
- Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder 44
- Devacurl Conditioner 43
- Devacurl No Poo Original 42
- Devacurl One Condition Original 40
- Devacurl Low Poo Delight 40
- Monat Shampoo 39
- Pureology Hydrate Shampoo 38
- Devacurl Styling Cream 36
- Wen Lavender Cleansing Conditioner 36
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Get started →About this data
Data comes from the FDA's adverse event reporting system for cosmetic products. The dataset covers adverse events for foods, dietary supplements, and cosmetics; we filter to cosmetics only.
Reactions are coded in MedDRA. Reports come from consumers, health professionals, retailers, and cosmetic manufacturers.
Limitations: The public data does not include case narratives, only structured fields. The presence of a report does not establish that the product caused the event - reports reflect what was reported, not FDA conclusions about causality.
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