About CIGREG
Cosmetic regulatory intelligence for global beauty brands.
Cosmetic regulatory intelligence is the systematic tracking of global cosmetic regulations and the translation of those rules into concrete decisions for your products: which ingredients have moved, what needs reformulating, which filings are due and when. CIGREG delivers that intelligence as a service across four markets - the EU, UK, Switzerland and the US - through a single Responsible Person relationship, so you do not build a regulatory team or stitch together multiple vendors.
Why CIGREG exists
Modern brands move faster than the old model of compliance.
Independent, online-first brands now formulate quickly, sell direct to customers and cross borders earlier than previous generations of beauty brands did. The moment a product ships to the EU, UK, Switzerland or the US, it takes on a set of legal obligations: a named Responsible Person, a compliant Product Information File, a signed safety assessment and the right notification in each market.
Those obligations are size-blind. A hobbyist selling a few bars of soap faces the same mandatory CPSR, PIF and Responsible Person requirement in the EU as a multinational, with no small-business exemption and no turnover threshold. The vocabulary alone (Responsible Person, authorised representative, PIF, CPSR, CPNP) reads as enterprise legalese, and many solo makers assume the rules were never written for them. They were.
The result is a familiar pattern. A brand that finally solves the EU learns the UK is a separate regime with its own Responsible Person and its own OPSS notification, and that the US now has MoCRA on top. Each market roughly repeats the workload. Some small sellers respond by geo-blocking Europe or dropping export markets entirely rather than face the paperwork and the cost.
Traditional regulatory consultancies were built for large companies with a handful of products and a budget to match. They bill by the hour, which makes them slow and expensive for a brand with thirty products and a launch deadline. CIGREG is built for those brands, with fixed prices, fast turnaround and one partner covering four markets.
What we do
Cosmetic regulatory intelligence, without the overhead.
We act as your Responsible Person in the EU and UK, your responsible agent in Switzerland and your US Agent under MoCRA.
We produce the safety dossiers, Product Information Files and notifications you need, and we keep them current as the rules change. You get the coverage of a full regulatory department without hiring one.
A non-EU brand cannot be its own EU Responsible Person, and only a Responsible Person legally established in the Union can access the CPNP portal to notify a product. The same holds in the UK, where the Responsible Person must have a genuine UK-established address (a PO box or mail-forwarding address does not qualify) and files through SCPN at the OPSS. Switzerland requires a responsible person or agent with an address on Swiss territory, because the compliance obligation cannot be delegated to anyone located abroad. Under MoCRA, a foreign facility that must register also needs a US Agent who is physically present in the United States. CIGREG holds each of these roles so you do not have to establish an entity in every market.
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Four markets, one partner
One relationship for every market your brand enters.
Every market is a separate legal regime with its own paperwork and its own Responsible Person rules. CIGREG covers all four from a single relationship, so nothing falls between them.
These four markets are not one market with four flavours. Each has its own law, its own portal, and its own definition of who is legally responsible for the product. A notification in one does nothing for the others. The EU CPNP and the UK SCPN are entirely separate systems that do not talk to each other, so uploading to the EU portal does not cover Great Britain. An EU Responsible Person does not cover Switzerland, and a Swiss address on the packaging does not transfer the legal obligation to it. Northern Ireland is treated separately again: under the Windsor Framework the NI market follows EU Regulation 1223/2009 and the EU route rather than the Great Britain route.
European Union
Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009. A Union-established Responsible Person, a signed CPSR, a PIF held for ten years, and a CPNP notification before placing on the market.
United Kingdom
Great Britain is a separate regime. A UK Responsible Person files through SCPN at the OPSS. A PO box or mail-forwarding address does not qualify as establishment.
Switzerland
A responsible person or agent with an address on Swiss territory. Self-monitoring dossier, typically held ten years. No EU-style notification portal, and EU compliance does not carry over.
United States
MoCRA: facility registration, product listing, and a US Agent for a foreign facility that must register. Listing records what is sold. It is not FDA approval.
Why one partner
What a single international model does for your brand.
Most compliance providers cover one jurisdiction well and bundle the rest poorly. That leaves brands stitching together several vendors, one per market, each with its own contract, contact and portal login.
One dossier workflow
The same product data feeds the EU CPSR and PIF, the UK file, the Swiss self-monitoring dossier and the US listing pack, so a formula change is not re-explained four times.
No portal mismatch
CPNP, SCPN and Cosmetics Direct stay in the same relationship. An EU upload is never treated as a UK or US filing.
One named contact
Market-surveillance questions, label reprints and renewals go to one team instead of three vendors arguing about whose file is current.
A handover that stays live
A Responsible Person can be changed after products are already on the market. Notifications stay live while the name and address are updated.
Switching to CIGREG
Changing your Responsible Person, without a gap in coverage.
A common worry is being locked in to a provider. You are not. A Responsible Person can be changed after your products are already on the market.
A new Responsible Person can take over your existing CPNP and SCPN accounts and manage future updates from there, so your notifications stay live through the change. We review the documents you already hold, confirm what is current, and update the Responsible Person name and address where it appears (on the CPNP or SCPN record, and on the product label at the next print run). The aim is a clean handover with your products continuously covered.
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Built around the things brands actually need.
Fixed prices, published up front
The work is quoted before it starts. Line items live on the pricing page. We do not invent a new hourly rate after you send the formula.
Qualified assessor sign-off
Every safety report is reviewed and signed by a qualified safety assessor. Cassandra Maddocks, a Sweden-based chemist and biochemist, reviews CIGREG guides and safety assessments.
Four markets in one relationship
EU, UK, Switzerland and the US from one partner. You do not hire a second vendor the first time a customer in another market places an order.
The file has to last
Cosmetic regulatory intelligence is only useful if it is current. We track global cosmetic regulations across the EU, UK, Switzerland and the US as they happen - ingredient status changes, new prohibited substance lists, updated labelling requirements - and apply them to your dossiers without waiting for you to ask. The Responsible Person role stays active for the whole time the product is on the market.
Straight answers
What we are careful to be honest about.
Some claims in this market are easy to make and hard to keep. We would rather set expectations plainly.
Cosmetic regulatory intelligence is only useful when it is accurate. We flag what we do not know, and we do not sell certainty where none exists.
Listing a product with the FDA does not mean it is FDA approved. The FDA does not approve cosmetic products before they reach the market, and no compliance provider can obtain an approval that does not exist. What MoCRA requires is facility registration and product listing, plus safety substantiation kept on file, and that is what we deliver.
Compliance does not remove the cost of testing. The safety assessment relies on lab work such as stability, challenge and microbiological testing, and for some claims on substantiation studies. Those costs and timelines sit with the testing itself. What we can do is price our own work up front and run the paperwork around the testing without adding delay.
A small business is not automatically exempt from everything. The MoCRA small-business exemption reduces the registration and listing burden for firms under the sales threshold, but adverse-event reporting, labelling and safety substantiation still apply, and the exemption is lost entirely if a product falls into a higher-risk category such as one that regularly contacts the mucous membrane of the eye. In the EU and UK there is no small-business exemption from the Responsible Person requirement at all.
Our team
The people behind CIGREG.
CIGREG is led by Shervin Yavari. Legal entity is Cosmetic Intelligence Group LLC (Florida). Separately he founded SBR Group Sàrl, a cosmetics company in Switzerland. SBR is not CIGREG. Our regulatory work is delivered by experienced associates and reviewed by qualified safety assessors, including Cassandra Maddocks, a Sweden-based chemist and biochemist with over ten years of experience formulating cosmetics. How we research, verify and review what we publish is set out in our cosmetic regulatory methodology and our editorial standards.
Common questions
Questions brands ask before they start.
Plain answers to the questions we hear most often about who CIGREG is and how the four markets work.
In practice
Compliance, in the real world.
