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Regulatory preflight · Cosmetics & household products

Get your product checked before you print and launch. By an expert, not a tool.

A human regulatory preflight for independent cosmetic and household brands. I check your actual formula, your actual artwork, your claims and your EU market risks, then send you fixes you can apply before you print and before you launch.

Choose a service Free EU Product Readiness Check
  • Fixed price, from €390
  • Ready-to-apply fixes
  • No call required

Fictitious example · demonstration

HYDRATING SERUM · 30 ml

1Hydrates and soothes. Chemical-free.

2Ingredients: Aqua, Glycerin, Niacinamide, Parfum, Phenoxyethanol…

3Made in France

  1. 1.“Chemical-free”: misleading claim, remove it.
  2. 2.Fragrance allergen (Limonene) must be listed in the INCI.
  3. 3.Responsible person and PAO missing.

Compliance matrix · formula

  • Phenoxyethanol · 0.9%

    Annex V ≤ 1% · compliant

  • Limonene (from fragrance)

    Must be declared on label

  • Botanical extract

    CAS no. missing · data to obtain

33 issues found before print

Positioning

Between automated checkers and regulatory consultancies.

Automated checker

Fast and cheap, but it reads an ingredient list, not your product: not the real artwork, not the context of your claims, not the supplier data.

Bridge & Flow preflight

An expert reviews your actual formula, artwork and claims, and sends ready-to-apply fixes. Fixed price, stated turnaround.

Regulatory consultancy

Essential for regulated roles and large files, but often oversized for checking a product before print.

Services

Three fixed-price pre-launch checks

Pick by product and stage: before print, before the safety assessment or before market launch. Price and turnaround shown before you order.

Cosmetics

Cosmetic Label & Claims Review

“Are my label and claims ready to print, without a withdrawal risk?”

5 business days

from€390

Cosmetics

Formula & EU Market Fit Review

“Can my formula be sold in the EU as it is, before I pay for the safety assessment and artwork?”

7 business days

from€590

Household

EU Household Compliance Preflight

“Is my household product ready for the EU market: SDS, CLP label, UFI, risk points?”

5 business days

from€490

Classification needs work? Household Compliance Diagnostic€890Several products or markets? Regulatory Project Scoping€249

Prices exclude VAT — VAT treatment depends on the client's country of establishment and professional status. · Turnaround counted from a complete file (brief + documents).

Justine Teruel, founder of Bridge & Flow

Who reviews your product

Who checks your file

Justine Teruel, independent formulator and regulatory consultant.

I work on the formula, the bench trials and the regulation. My fixes reflect what your product can actually become, not just what the texts say.

My background
  • Formulation, bench work and regulation
  • Independent: no tie to any lab or notified body
  • Written, reasoned report with regulatory references

Verifiable profiles : Upwork · Malt · LinkedIn

What clients say

  • “Justine was exceptional and timely, thank you”

    Verified Upwork client feedback · 5.0/5

    Mission: Formulation Development Chemist – UK Supplement Label Compliance (2 Products)

    Upwork · See source
  • “Did a great job, very friendly and fast”

    Verified Upwork client feedback · 5.0/5

    Mission: Pharma Regulatory Compliance Specialist Needed for Risk Assessment

    Upwork · See source

Selected Upwork work includes CPSR/PIF support, cosmetic/skincare import classification, formula development and international label compliance.

MarketsEuropean Union by direct order · UK, US, Canada via scoping

Deliverables

What you receive

A written report, not a call. Here is what the deliverables look like, on fictitious demonstration examples.

Fictitious example · demonstration

HYDRATING SERUM · 30 ml

1Hydrates and soothes. Chemical-free.

2Ingredients: Aqua, Glycerin, Niacinamide, Parfum, Phenoxyethanol…

3Made in France

Priority fixes

  1. P1Remove “hypoallergenic” (not substantiated)
  2. P1Add responsible person name and address
  3. P2Enlarge mandatory statements

Label & Claims Review

  • Annotated artwork, point by point
  • Fixes ranked by priority
  • Claims to reword or substantiate
€390 · See the service

Compliance matrix · formula

  • Phenoxyethanol · 0.9%

    Annex V ≤ 1% · compliant

  • Limonene (from fragrance)

    Must be declared on label

  • Botanical extract

    CAS no. missing · data to obtain

Action plan

  1. P1Obtain the extract’s CAS number
  2. P1Declare Limonene on the label

Formula & EU Market Fit Review

  • Green / amber / red matrix per ingredient
  • Missing data to obtain
  • Action plan before the file
€590 · See the service
FDS / SDSCLPLabel

  • GHS05 pictogram (SDS § 2)

    Missing from label

  • UFI

    To be added

  • H / P statements

    Consistent with SDS

  • Detergent composition

    Meets Reg. 648/2004

EU Household Compliance Preflight

  • SDS / classification / label consistency
  • Checklist of fixes
  • Pre-launch watch points (UFI, packaging, claims)
€490 · See the service

Anonymized deliverable excerpt

Excerpt from an anonymised work sample: peptide hair serum project, role, technical focus and rationale
Formula & manufacturing readinessPeptide-based leave-on hair serum: scope, active compatibility, pH, preservation, physical stability and manufacturer transfer. Anonymised project.Cropped preview ·View full excerpt
Excerpt from an anonymised work sample: stain-remover development matrix by stain class
Household product · development matrixStain remover: stain class, challenge, what to screen and decision criteria. Representative framework, no client formula or data.Cropped preview ·View full excerpt

Method

How I work on your file

  1. 01

    I read your real documents

    Quantitative formula, artwork, SDS, claims: not a questionnaire.

  2. 02

    I check them against the texts

    Cosmetics Regulation, CLP, claims, detergents: every gap is referenced.

  3. 03

    I rank the risks

    Blocking, to fix, to watch: you know where to start.

  4. 04

    I propose the fix

    Replacement wording, data to obtain or a precise action.

Proposed fix · fictitious example

Before“Chemical-free, 100% natural”

Proposed“Formulated with 98% ingredients of natural origin (ISO 16128 calculation)”

Everything is chemical: the claim is misleading (truthfulness and honesty criteria). The rewording is verifiable if the calculation is documented in the PIF.

Reg. (EU) 655/2013 · Reg. (EC) 1223/2009, Art. 20

Real bench work

Beaker on a magnetic stirrer with a temperature probe during a formulation trial
Formulation · small-scale trialsPreparing a phase under magnetic stirring, with a temperature probe.
Heated stirrer with a sample and a digital thermometer showing the temperature
Process parametersControlled heating and temperature reading while making a prototype.
pH meter in a beaker holding a prototype, reading 6.7
pH checkMeasuring a prototype’s pH with a pH meter.

Real work photos · anonymised projects, no client data.

Why this approach

A compliant label won’t save a formula that isn’t.

Product development and market access are often handled separately. A formula can be clever yet incompatible with the target market; a regulatory file won’t fix a dosage or preservation issue.

Formula side
Ingredients, concentrations, preservation, supplier data: what must change, and how.
Regulatory side
Cosmetics Regulation, CLP, claims, mandatory statements: what blocks market placement.

How it works

Everything happens online, no meeting needed.

  1. 01

    Check eligibility

    2 minutes, instant result and final price.

  2. 02

    Pay online

    Fixed price, automatic invoice.

  3. 03

    Upload brief and documents

    Turnaround starts once the file is complete.

  4. 04

    Get the written report

    One round of questions included.

What I actually check

The points covered, check by check

Full details are on each offer page.

Label & Claims Review

  • Mandatory particulars (Art. 19) on every face
  • INCI list: names, order, 2026 fragrance allergens
  • “Free from”, “natural”, “clean” claims against Reg. 655/2013
  • Local languages, PAO, batch, Responsible Person
€390 · See the service

Formula & EU Market Fit Review

  • Prohibited or restricted substances (Annexes II to VI)
  • Concentration limits and conditions of use
  • Fragrance: IFRA and allergens to declare
  • Missing data before the CPSR and PIF
€590 · See the service

EU Household Compliance Preflight

  • SDS ↔ classification ↔ CLP label
  • Pictograms, H/P statements, signal word
  • UFI and poison centre notification
  • Biocidal-claim risk, packaging, 2026 hazard classes
€490 · See the service

Not sure what you need?

Take the free 2-minute EU Product Readiness Check: instant first result and the right service for your case.

Take the free Readiness Check

Free download: Cosmetic EU Notification Checklist — 8 points to check before notifying

The recap I use before every file. PDF format, in English and French.

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