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Product category · Updated May 27, 2026

Cosmetics & Personal Care recalls

Cosmetics and personal care product recalls

Total recalls
1,057
Top agency
FDA Drug
Years covered
2001–2026
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Cosmetics & Personal Care accounts for 1,057 recalls — about 1.1% of the federal recall archive, of which 18% of graded records are high-severity.

The FDA, CPSC and NHTSA have published 1,057 cosmetics & personal care recalls between 2001 and 2026 — roughly 1.1% of the 100,165-record archive. Of the 1,057 records graded for severity, 18% are high-severity. Most are issued by FDA Drug. Counts reflect market size and reporting activity, not a product's inherent danger.

  • 1,057 total recalls
  • 1.1% of the archive
  • 18% graded high-severity
  • FDA Drug top agency

Category snapshot

Cosmetics & Personal Care accounts for 1,057 recalls — about 1.1% of the 100,165-record federal archive, with 188 graded high-severity, most issued by FDA Drug.

1,057
total recalls
18%
graded high-severity
FDA Drug
top issuing agency
2001–2026
years covered

Cosmetics & Personal Care recalls by year

2001–2026

0 20 40 60 80 100 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 43 26 87 48 99 70 50 81 39 43 61 21

Source: FDA · CPSC · NHTSA As of May 27, 2026

Severity distribution

Graded records only

recalls
Source FDA / CPSC severity classification

Recalls by issuing agency

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Source PlainRecalls index of federal feeds

Counts reflect market size and reporting activity, not inherent danger — we do not rank products by risk from raw recall volume.

Recalls in Cosmetics & Personal Care

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What to do with this

Monitoring cosmetics & personal care? Start here.

  • Check a specific product against the full federal archive before you use or buy it. Recall checker
  • Most cosmetics & personal care recalls come from FDA Drug — browse that agency's full feed. FDA Drug recalls
  • Sort the whole archive by severity to see the highest-risk active recalls first. Rankings

Recall categorization follows the issuing agency's product taxonomy; always confirm specifics on the official notice.

Nearby categories

Adjacent product categories that share hazard patterns or regulatory oversight.

Data sources

Category data as of May 27, 2026.

Every figure on PlainRecalls is rendered directly from official FDA, CPSC and NHTSA recall records — no number is typed in by an editor. Category counts and the year trend are computed across the full archive for cosmetics & personal care. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 27, 2026.