How to Label your Soap

White Label and Private Label customers ask this question the most: How do I label my products? 

Ingredients Declaration for Soap

Marie Gale, author, soap and cosmetic labeling expert, states at her blog Ingredient Labels for Soap, “Sometimes (often, actually) a soapmaker has a true soap for which no cosmetic claims have been made, but still wants to tell their customers what is in the soap. Since it’s not a cosmetic, the FDA regulations don’t apply, so there is considerably more freedom in what you say. In this case, you could use “saponified oils of ___”. The ingredients don’t necessarily have to be in descending order of predominance – they don’t even have to all be included.”

So in short, you technically do not have to disclose any ingredients in soap, crazy right? As long as you are selling it as soap you don't need to disclose any ingredients according to the FDA. Here at MamaSuds we require our white label and private label customers to disclose ingredients on all our products because it aligns with our ethos and it's just good practice. 

You cannot make or publish customer reviews that claim the soap does anything but cleans. That means you can't say it clears eczema or psoriasis. 

The FDA can and has sent warning letters and fined companies for such claims. 

For all of our White Label and Private Label customers we require the following on the products we manufacture: 

Identity of the product, net weight, name and address of the manufacturer and ingredients.