Kuwait’s Ministry of Health has introduced more than 130 new regulations for salons, gyms, and beauty facilities, effective August 2025. The rules cover hygiene, product approvals, labelling, and child safety, raising the bar for both service providers and cosmetic brands.
For cosmetic formulators and beauty brands, the most important updates are:
- Only licensed and Ministry-approved products can be used in salons.
- Products must display expiry dates and a clear label with the date of opening and period-after-opening.
- In children’s salons only mild, fragrance-free products are allowed. Parabens and phthalates are strictly prohibited for children’s use.
- Intensive skin treatments, hair dyeing, and spray tans for minors are banned.
- Homemade herbal remedies cannot be prepared or sold unless labelled with full ingredient lists and expiry dates.
- Tattooing, permanent make-up, cupping, ear-piercing and similar treatments require special permits.
- Strict hygiene rules apply: sterilisation of tools, no reuse of razors, and health clearance certificates for all staff.
Why this matters:
Brands that highlight child-safe, compliant, and sustainable formulations can differentiate themselves in the Kuwaiti market.
Demand will grow for fragrance-free, paraben-free and phthalate-free products suitable for children.
Packaging and labelling must now include expiry dates and period-after-opening information.
Salons will favour suppliers that provide traceable and compliant formulations.
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