• If the Saudi Technical Regulations or the Saudi standard specifications are unavailable, the Authority shall apply any legislation, regulations or specifications relating to cosmetic products, its factories and personnel requirements until these regulations issued by technical regulations or standard specifications as the followings sequence:

  • 1. Technical Regulations, legislation or Gulf specifications.

  • 2. Technical Regulations, legislation, international specifications or documents issued by relevant international organizations, international agreements or relevant joint committees.

  • 3. Legislation or specifications issued by competent regional bodies.

  • 4. Technical Regulations, standard specifications or requirements approved in any other country.

• 1. The Authority shall publish a list of illegal substances in cosmetic products

• 2. The Authority shall publish a list of restricted use substances in cosmetic products.

• 3. The Authority shall update the lists periodically or whenever the need arises and publish them on its website.

• 5-1-L: The Authority may use specialized companies to verify the conformity of cosmetic products with Technical Regulation and standard specifications and conditions approved by it as a third party with the continued responsibility of the Authority for those tasks.

• 5-2-L: The Authority shall create the conditions to be applied in the companies that may be engaged without prejudice to the conditions of other government bodies. 

• 5-3-L:

•  Tasks of the Verifying Company:

  • A. Ensure the conformity of cosmetic product to the Technical Regulations, standard specifications and conditions approved by the Authority.

  • B. Examination of the technical documents submitted for listing.

  • C. Any tasks consistent with its capabilities that the Authority considers to be assigned to it.

• 5-4-L: The Authority shall monitor the performance of the tasks assigned to the verifying companies.

• 6-1-L: The Authority shall issue the listing certificate after ensuring that listing application has met its requirements and the certificate shall be valid for 5 years from the date of its issuance.

• 6-2-L: The listing certificate shall be renewable for a period of one year or similar period (5 years) and the applicant shall apply 90 days before the certificate is expired. The period of a renewed certificate shall be valid from the date of expiration of the previous certificate.

• 6-3-L: Listing will considered invalid when the certificate expires without renewal. In addition, the product should be re-listed if the product is intended to be re-imported or re-traded.

• 6-4-L: The expiration of the certificate shall not prevent trading the product at markets and warehouses until the expiration of the product.

• 6-5-L: The listed product shall not be exempt from the listing obligations and responsibilities after the cancellation of listing the product.

• Circular No. 7-1-L: The product shall be listed in accordance with the following procedures and conditions:

  • a) Submit the listing application attached with the listing required documents which determined by the Authority.

  • b) The product to be listed shall be corresponds to the Technical Regulations and conditions approved by the Authority.

• Circular No. 7-2-L: The manufacturer or the manufacturing company shall authorize whoever is required to represent them in the Authority by a certified letter of authorization from a trusted body according to the procedures approved by the authority.

• Circular No. 7-3-L: If needed, the Authority shall verify the manufacturing practices of the external manufacturer of the listed product.

The lister commitment shall report the cases provided in Article Ten, paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) of the Law as soon as it is aware of them.

• Circular No. 11-1-L: Each cosmetic product shall contain the followings:

  • - The product name, the product trade name, the factory, the manufacturer company and their addresses.

  • - Product’s validity.

  • - Any special warnings or alerts to be observed when using the product and any special caution information on in for professional use.

  • - The function of the product and how it used unless it is not clear from the method of submission.

  • - Product components list.

  • - Production date and batch number or one of them.

  • - Size or net product weight.

  • - Country of origin.

  • - Product storage instructions.

  • - Any other data determined by the Authority.

• Circular No. 11-2-L:The Authority shall specify the data to be written in Arabic Language on the product.

• Circular No. 12-1-L: The Authority shall publish in its website a list of the cosmetic products that listed in the cosmetic products record. In addition, the authority will periodically reviews the list by adding new products and updating the status of listed products. 

• In order to obtain a technical manufacturer license, it is required to fill a license application with the required documents in accordance with the Guidelines of Licensing Cosmetic Products Factories