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Half a billion consumers and the second largest beauty market in the world. The safety report is your entry ticket: from €450 per product, signed by a qualified assessor.
Your formula, reviewed against the EU lists of banned and restricted ingredients
Your CPSR, signed by a qualified safety assessor
Ready to notify on the SCPN (UK) or CPNP (EU) and go on sale
Prices
Each step has one offer, a fixed price and a set time. You only pay for the step you need, and what you pay for step 2 is deducted from step 3.
Formula still changing
Prepare while you formulate
Our guide lists the four things every UK or EU launch needs and the documents to ask your suppliers for, so you collect them while you finish the formula.
Before your CPSR
Formula final, documents uncertain
CPSR Readiness Review
We confirm which of the 18 documents on the EU checklist you have and which are missing, with who to ask for each one. You also get your fixed CPSR quote.
Formula final, documents complete
Your CPSR, signed
Annex I safety report: Part A with your product data and Part B evaluated and signed by a qualified EU safety assessor, ready for your PIF and CPNP.
Prices exclude VAT. The CPSR price depends on the number of ingredients and products; you receive a fixed quote before any commitment.
€110 bn
European cosmetics retail sales in 2025. A large market, and a regulated one.
Source: Cosmetics Europe
861,686
cosmetic product notifications in the UK since 2020. Each one needs a safety report behind it.
Source: UK Office for Product Safety and Standards, May 2026
36%
of EU dangerous-product alerts in 2025 were cosmetics, the most reported category.
Source: European Commission, Safety Gate 2025
Why Europe
Europe buys more beauty than any region except the United States. Its rules are strict, and that is exactly why a product that meets them earns trust: from buyers, from retailers, and from customers who read the label.
One notification, 27 countries. A product notified on the CPNP can be sold across the whole EU.
Room for small brands. More than 9,600 small and medium companies make up Europe's cosmetics industry.
Growth that lasts. Sales grew 6.3% in 2024, led by fragrances and make-up.
Sources: Cosmetics Europe, Our Industry and Market Performance 2024.
Why your formula review matters
The EU keeps lists of banned and restricted substances, with limits, conditions and warnings, and updates them several times a year. An ingredient that was fine last year may need a new limit or a new warning today.
Found early, it is a small change to the formula or the label. Found after printing, it can mean relabelling a whole batch or taking a product off sale.
How Sobel protects your formula
Each ingredient checked against Annexes II to VI, including the latest amendments
Fragrance allergens identified, so your label lists what it must
Exposure calculated for your real product type, not a generic one
Label warnings that come straight from the safety assessment
Your formula stays confidential, with an NDA if you need one
More than a report
Your CPSR is built to be used: it goes straight into your product file and your notification, with label warnings ready for your artwork. One team, from the first review to the day you launch.
Annex I safety report, Part B signed
From €450 per product
Organised and ready for an inspection
CPNP for the EU, SCPN for the UK
Warnings, allergens and the right address
When your formula or the EU lists change
Why the CPSR matters
The CPSR is not paperwork for its own sake. It is the document authorities, retailers and distributors ask for, and the one that decides your label warnings.
No safety assessment, no sale
Under Regulation (EC) 1223/2009 and the UK rules, every cosmetic needs a safety assessment by a qualified person, kept in its Product Information File before it is placed on the market.
Authorities and retailers ask for it
Market surveillance can request the file at any time. Retailers, marketplaces and distributors increasingly ask for it before they list a product.
Cosmetics top the alert list
36% of EU dangerous-product alerts in 2025 were cosmetics. An unsupported conclusion or a missing test is what turns a launch into a withdrawal.
What a weak or late CPSR costs you
A delayed launch, and a delayed first sale
Rework, re-testing and unplanned spend
Questions from authorities or retailers
Distribution deals on hold
The road to market
Each moment needs something different. Sobel works with you at every one of them, so you only do what your product needs now, in the right order.
Formulating
The formula may still change
You are here if you are still testing textures, ingredients or suppliers.
Collecting documents
Formula final, documents uncertain
You are here if you have a final formula but are not sure your supplier documents are complete.
Safety assessment
Formula final, documents complete
You are here if you have every document and want the safety report done.
Launch
Report done, product notified
You are here when your CPSR is signed and your product goes on sale.
On the market
Selling, and staying compliant
You are here if your product is on sale and the formula, label or rules change.
Moments 1 to 3 are where most brands start, with the prices shown at the top of this page.
Step 2 · CPSR Readiness Review
You send us your documents and a specialist confirms each one is there and is the right document. You receive a written answer: can the CPSR start now, and if not, what exactly is missing and who to ask.
What we check
Each of the 18 documents on the EU checklist: received or missing
That each file is the right document, for your product and manufacturer
That certificates are still valid and letters are signed
What you receive
A written report with every item marked received, missing or to check, the list of documents to request and from whom, and a fixed quote for your CPSR.
What it is not
It confirms each required document is present and is the right type. It does not assess their content. Consistency between documents is checked at the start of the CPSR and may lead to further requests.
After you send the form
1
Formula still changingThe guide downloads right away. When your formula is final, come back to step 2 or 3.2
Formula final, documents uncertainYou receive the payment link and the list of documents to send us by email. Your report arrives 5 business days after payment and receipt of your documents.3
Formula final, documents completeFor 1 or 2 products you receive the payment link and the list of documents by email. For more products we send your fixed quote first. The assessment starts once your documents are complete.What every CPSR needs
Collect these from your formulator and suppliers. Not sure you have them all? That is what step 2 answers.
Final formula with INCI names and percentages
Specification and SDS of each raw material
IFRA certificate and allergen list for fragrances
Finished product specification
Stability and microbiology data
Label artwork and packaging information
Manufacturing process and GMP certificate
Signed letters on use, exposure and side effects
Questions
Ready to start? Choose your step: the free guide, the Readiness Review or your CPSR.
From €450 per product. The final price depends on the number of ingredients and products, and you receive a fixed quote before any commitment.
It is real work by a specialist on your documents. The €150 is fully deducted from your CPSR if you go ahead with us.
Start with the free guide (step 1). A CPSR assesses one exact formula, so any change later means a new assessment.
Choose step 2 or 3 as usual and tell us how many products. The price per product drops for larger ranges.
No. The CPSR price covers the safety report. The EU or UK Responsible Person, the notification and the Product Information File are separate services with their own price, quoted when you need them.
Yes. EU annexes change regularly, so we check an existing report against the current rules and tell you whether it needs an update.
90 days from the date we deliver the Readiness Review. One formula counts as one product.
Tell us where your product is today and see your next step, with its price.
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