MoCRA Facility Registration & Product Listing Reports

March 25, 2025

On March 13th, 2025, the FDA announced the number of cosmetic facility registrations and cosmetic product listings that had been completed under MoCRA in the last year.

Facility Registrations

From December 18th, 2023 until January 1, 2025, there were 9,528 facility registrations submitted to the FDA. That’s over 9000 facilities that are making cosmetics!

It turns out that of those, 1,800 were from the US (with California, Florida, and Texas being the top three states). There were another 7,732 product registrations from foreign facilities. If a company is going to sell products inside the US, even if they are being made outside the US, they still must register their facility. Of those foreign registrations, 4,260 were from China. None of the other countries had more than 1,000 facilities.

Product Listings

For product listings, there were 589,762 unique products listed. And remember that a product can be listed just once when there are different variations of that product based on size, color, or fragrance. So in actual fact there were probably more products out on the market than just those 589,762 products. That’s a lot of products!

Compared to the Voluntary Program

If you compare it with the Voluntary Cosmetic Registration Program (“VCRP”) that was in effect from 1972 until March of 2023, the numbers are pretty amazing. Under the VCRP (as of when it shut down in March of 2023) there were only 5,176 active establishments registered, and only 35,000 product filings. So obviously, MoCRA is collecting a lot more information about the cosmetic facilities and products that are on the market.

Who Must Register

Companies are required to register their cosmetic facilities and products with the FDA if they are not exempt as a small business. To be exempt as a small business, you must have under $1M averaged annual revenue over the last three years and not make any products that are injectable, ingestible, or applied around the eye area where it can come in contact with the mucous membranes of the eye, or are products that remain on the body for more than 24 hours and have to be removed by a professional.

If you fall under a category where you are exempt, you still can register your facility if you want to, and you can list your products if you want to, but it is not required.

It will be interesting to see how these numbers change over the coming years. It will give us a good feel for the number of facilities that are out there and the number of products that are out there. At some point the FDA may make the more detailed information available, as they did with the Voluntary Cosmetic Registration Program.

If you’d like to learn more about the requirements of MoCRA, get tthe 4th Edition of my book “Soap and Cosmetic Labeling.” (updated February 2025).

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Comments

4 responses to “MoCRA Facility Registration & Product Listing Reports”

Jackalyn Nowak

July 15, 2025

Ohhhh sorry, I also add the name of my business along with my street name and town and state with zip. I do not add my mailbox number. I am concerned someone could possibly rob me or maybe worse.

I meant to add that to the above information.

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1. Marie Gale
  
  July 15, 2025
  
  Well, the requirement is the full physical address. If you leave the street address off your label, then you need to publish it online. You’ll probably have much less exposure by putting it on the label, since it would only be seen by people who actually buy your product – compared to putting it online where it would be available to anyone.
  
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Jackalyn Nowak

July 15, 2025

Hi Marie,

I started to sell body butters and lip balms this past fall, I use premade product and add scents, or mica safe colorants designed specifically for them. I use both the FDA ingredients and the INCI label ingredients on my labels.

I am in the exemption class as a small business because I only made about $1,000 last year.

Am I doing it right? I use the “cigar labels” on my 8oz/237ml on body butters, I put the INCI label on the bottom of my jar and the cigar label has the how to use on the left strap and the FDA ingredients on the right strap.

the center round label has my name of my business at the top of it in the Center in bold is Body Butter below that is the fragrance name (ex Lilac, Lavender and Sage, Peach) I do not use Mica or colorants in the base, only fragrance.

My lip balms are so hard because the labels are so small on them, I label the lip balms and add the fragrance name and I only add the INCI info for the ingredients. It doesn’t fit the tubes

So I guess that is the question, it is a cosmetic product from my understanding, are bath salts, sugar scubs also considered cosmetic?

Thank you Marie for creating this sight to help us soapers and makers, I love your books I have many of them.
You think you understand it all but I am hoping I am good to go.

It really bothers me that we have to put labels on the front of my fancy soaps, because customers cannot see the beauty of the products. What I started doing it leaving a bar out only have it in my cellophane packaging for them to see but I notice the customer always wants the soap that has not labels.

Go figure! : )

Look forward to your reply.

Thank you kindly,
Jackalyn Nowak

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1. Marie Gale
  
  July 15, 2025
  
  Yes, labeling lip balms can be challenging, but you should be able to fit all the required information on the tube.
  
  Yes, bath salts, sugar scrubs are cosmetics. Anything that is applied to the human body to cleanse, beautify, change appearance or make more attractive.
  
  Given all your questions (and the likelihood that you’ll have lots more as you get your labels perfected and your store set up), the best choice for you might be my Master Your Labeling membership rather than individual label reviews or hourly consulting. For more info, you can compare the help options.
  
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