Pricing
Fixed, transparent pricing for cosmetic compliance.
Prices per product, published openly. You pay no hourly rates, and you approve a fixed quote before any work begins.
Regulatory consultants often bill by the hour, which makes cost hard to predict and penalises brands with larger portfolios. CIG prices per product and publishes those prices. You see what each deliverable costs, and your quote is fixed before work starts.
Hourly billing has a specific problem for a small brand: you cannot know the total until the invoice arrives, and the meter runs on every email, revision and clarification. A per-product price removes that uncertainty. Each product you sell in a given market needs the same defined set of documents, so the cost of compliance is knowable in advance and scales in a straight line with the size of your range. If you launch three products, you can read this page and estimate your bill before you ever contact us.
Compliance is size-blind. A one-person shop selling a few bars of handmade soap faces the same mandatory Responsible Person, Product Information File and safety report obligations as a large brand, with no small-business exemption or turnover threshold in the EU or UK. Fixed prices are how we keep that burden legible for the smallest sellers, who feel it hardest, rather than hiding it behind an open-ended estimate.
Price list
Published prices.
Prices in USD. Per product unless noted. Your quote is fixed before any work begins.
What you get
What each price covers.
Each line on the list maps to a specific legal document or filing. Here is what sits behind each one, and what it does not cover.
EU and UK launch pack, $1,500 per product
The most direct route to selling one product in both the EU and the UK. It bundles the signed safety report (CPSR), the Product Information File (PIF) and the notifications into a single fixed price. Under Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 an EU product needs an EU-established Responsible Person, a PIF, a CPSR and a CPNP notification before it goes on sale. Great Britain runs a separate regime: a UK-established Responsible Person and an SCPN notification through the Office for Product Safety and Standards. The two portals do not talk to each other, so a product sold in both markets is notified twice. This pack covers that dual filing for one product.
Not included: the physical lab testing your formula may need to support the CPSR (stability, preservative challenge, microbiological and packaging-compatibility testing), any claim-substantiation studies, and the ongoing Responsible Person mandate once the product is live. Those are quoted separately once we see the formula.
Safety assessment (CPSR), $450 to $600 per product
The Cosmetic Product Safety Report defined in Annex I of Reg. 1223/2009. Part A gathers the safety information: composition, physico-chemical characteristics and stability, microbiological quality, impurities and packaging, use and exposure, and the toxicological profile. Part B is the assessment itself, with the conclusion, warnings, the reasoning including the Margin of Safety, and the assessor’s signature. Part B must be signed by a person holding a university diploma in pharmacy, toxicology, medicine or a similar discipline recognised in an EU Member State. A US or other non-EU report does not transfer, so an existing report from another market has to be redone in the EU format.
Not included: the underlying lab test results the assessor reviews. If your formula already has valid stability and challenge-test data, the assessor works from it. If it does not, that testing is a separate cost outside this figure.
Product Information File (PIF), $400 per product
The dossier a Responsible Person must hold and produce on request. Under Article 11 it contains the product description, the CPSR, the manufacturing method with a good manufacturing practice statement (ISO 22716), proof of any claimed effect where justified, and data on animal testing. It must be kept for ten years after the last batch was placed on the market. The same ten-year retention applies in the UK and Switzerland.
Not included: the safety report itself, which is priced separately above, and the notification filing. The launch pack bundles all three when you need them together.
CPNP / SCPN notification, $150 per product
The pre-market filing. In the EU this is the CPNP notification required under Article 13 before a product is placed on the market. In Great Britain it is the SCPN notification through OPSS. The portals themselves are free to use. The cost is in the work of preparing and submitting a correct notification, which only an appointed Responsible Person can legally do. A notification needs the product name and category, the Responsible Person’s details, the full INCI formulation, label and packaging images, and the safety report reference.
Not included: a separate Article 16 notification for products containing nanomaterials, which is quoted on top when it applies.
MoCRA facility registration and product listing, $900 setup
United States market entry under MoCRA. The setup covers facility registration and the product listing that the Responsible Person named on the label must file with the FDA, including the ingredient list. There is no FDA fee to register a facility or list a product, so this price is the preparation and submission work through the Cosmetics Direct portal, which uses a Structured Product Labeling format that is easy to get wrong. Facility registration renews every two years.
Not included: a US Agent for a foreign facility, which is a distinct role from the Responsible Person, and the ongoing adverse-event reporting duty. Ask us to add the US Agent role to your quote if your manufacturing facility is outside the United States.
Label and claims review, $300 per product
A review of your label and marketing claims against the rules of the market you are entering. Labelling errors, such as missing batch numbers, untranslated warnings or a missing INCI list, are a common reason products are withdrawn or relabelled. Claims are governed under Article 19 of Reg. 1223/2009, and unsubstantiated claims are a recurring enforcement weakness. In the United States, wording such as treats, repairs or reduces inflammation can reclassify a cosmetic as a drug and has triggered FDA warning letters.
Not included: the studies needed to substantiate a specific performance claim, such as an SPF value or a moisturisation figure. We flag which claims need evidence; the testing itself is separate.
Scope
What changes the price.
Three things move your total: how complex each product is, how many products you have, and how many markets you enter.
The formula
The safety report is a range, $450 to $600, because the assessment work depends on the formula. A product with a short ingredient list and a simple function sits at the lower end. A product with more ingredients, active ingredients or more complex claims takes more assessment work and sits higher. Certain product types carry more scrutiny, including products for babies and children and products that contact the eye area. Your quote confirms the exact figure once we see the INCI list.
The number of products
Compliance is priced per product because the law works per product. Each individual product needs its own safety report, its own Product Information File and its own notification entry. For soap and similar ranges this catches people out: each scent and colour variant is a separate product and needs its own entry, not one shared registration for the recipe. A larger catalogue therefore costs more before a single unit sells, which is why we scope precisely rather than quote a vague package.
The number of markets
Each market is a separate legal regime with its own Responsible Person and its own filing. An EU notification does nothing for the UK, and neither covers Switzerland or the United States. A Swiss-address responsible person is mandatory for Switzerland, because the obligation cannot be delegated to anyone located abroad. Adding a market adds a defined, published cost rather than an open-ended one, so you can decide market by market whether the sales justify the setup.
Worked examples
What a launch actually costs.
These examples use the published prices above so you can see how a total is built. Your own quote is fixed before any work begins.
One product, EU and UK
The launch pack covers the safety report, the Product Information File and both notifications for a single product across the EU and Great Britain.
$1,500
One fixed price for one product in two markets, before any lab testing your formula may need.
Three products, EU and UK
The launch pack is priced per product, so three products across the EU and Great Britain is three packs. This is the setup cost, before ongoing Responsible Person coverage.
$4,500
Three products across the EU and UK at $1,500 each.
One product, adding the United States
Take the single-product EU and UK launch pack at $1,500 and add MoCRA facility registration and product listing at $900. A label and claims review at $300 is optional but sensible before a US launch.
$2,400
EU and UK launch pack plus MoCRA setup for one product, before an optional label review.
The lab testing behind a safety report is the cost founders most often forget to budget for. Stability, preservative challenge, microbiological and packaging-compatibility testing are performed by a laboratory, not by us, and they are not part of these figures. We tell you which tests your formula needs and hand you a full quote before anything is commissioned, so nothing appears on an invoice you did not agree to first.
How pricing works
How to read this.
Ongoing
Compliance Care.
An ongoing subscription, from around $490 a month, that keeps your compliance current between launches.
Once your products are on the market, the work does not stop. Renewal dates fall due, ranges expand and regulations change. Compliance Care keeps your files current, tracks renewals across every market, and alerts you to changes before they become a problem.
Read about Compliance Care →From ~$490/mo
Ongoing monitoring and renewals across the EU, UK, Switzerland and the US.
Why fixed price
Fixed price against hourly billing.
The difference matters most to a small brand, where an unpredictable bill can decide whether a market is worth entering at all.
You know the total in advance
With an hourly consultant the total is not known until the work is finished, and the meter runs on every email, call and revision. With a published per-product price you can add up your launch from this page before you speak to anyone. The quote we send is fixed, so the figure you approve is the figure you pay.
Cost scales with your range, not the clock
Because each product needs the same defined set of documents, your cost grows in a straight line with the number of products and markets. A larger portfolio does not mean an open-ended bill; it means a known price multiplied by a known count. That predictability is exactly what hourly billing removes.
The same qualified sign-off
A fixed price does not mean a lighter dossier. Every safety report is reviewed and signed by a qualified safety assessor holding the diploma the regulation requires, professional-indemnity insurance covers the Responsible Person role, and no notification is filed without your confirmation. The price is fixed; the standard of the work is not negotiable.
One point of honesty about ranges. Two figures on this page are ranges rather than single numbers: the safety report, at $450 to $600, and Compliance Care, from around $490 a month. Both depend on inputs we confirm before you commit, the formula in one case and the number of products and markets in the other. Everything else on the list is a single published figure, and your quote turns all of it into one fixed total.
Larger portfolios
Distributor and portfolio pricing.
If you are a distributor or private-label manufacturer carrying many products across several markets, we structure setup and ongoing pricing around your portfolio. Tell us the size and shape of your range and we will quote accordingly.
Pricing questions
Pricing FAQ.
In practice
Compliance, in the real world.
