Can slimming, bust-enhancing or stretch-mark products be exported to China as cosmetics?

Slimming, bust-enhancing or stretch-mark products should be assessed conservatively before they are exported to China as cosmetics. The current special-cosmetics list no longer includes the older special-use classes for slimming or bust enhancement. That does not mean every body-shaping cream is now an ordinary cosmetic. A product that claims to reduce fat, enlarge breasts physiologically, change body shape as a medical effect, or treat stretch marks as scars may be a new-efficacy special cosmetic or may fall outside cosmetics altogether. The classification rules state that products used on scars are not cosmetics under the repair efficacy.

Published 11 November 2026 · Updated 11 November 2026

How to judge the path

If a claim does not fit any listed efficacy, it may be treated as a new efficacy, which is a special cosmetic and cannot use the ordinary-filing cycle.

Follow the rules and system requirements in force at the time of submission rather than copying a pre-2021 special-use certificate story.

Typical documents, tests and labels

Do not promise drug-like body-contour results or post-surgical scar treatment on a cosmetic label. Jinshang Testing organizes the compliance work. Testing is coordinated with partner laboratories, and those laboratories issue the reports they perform.

Cautions

Moisturizing a stretch-mark-prone area without claiming to treat scars may remain ordinary moisturizing care, provided that is the honest intended use.

Questions we are often asked

Can I file a “bust firming” cream as ordinary firming?

Firming is a listed ordinary efficacy for helping skin stay firm or elastic. Wording that promises to enlarge breasts or change physiology goes beyond that and should be reassessed.

Is a hot-cream slimmer a cosmetic?

If it only warms the skin as a sensory cosmetic effect and moisturizes, it may remain ordinary. If it claims to consume fat or replace medical weight loss, it is not following a cosmetic path.