Compliance · CA Senate Bill 258
California law gives you the right to see what's inside the cleaning chemistry you buy. Here's what the Act covers, the 22 chemical lists behind it, and how to pull the paperwork for any designated product on our shelves.
The law, in plain terms
Senate Bill 258 wrote ingredient transparency into the Health & Safety Code: cleaning-product ingredient lists went public — first on manufacturers' websites, then on the labels themselves. It applies to designated products sold in California no matter where they're made.
Online · since Jan 1, 2020
Manufacturers of designated products sold in California must publish each product's intentionally added ingredients on their own website — chemical name, CAS number, what the ingredient does, and whether it sits on a designated list — plus certain nonfunctional constituents present at or above 0.01% (100 ppm).
On the label · since Jan 1, 2021
Labels must call out intentionally added ingredients that appear on a designated list — or carry the full ingredient list — and point to the manufacturer's web disclosure for the rest. The fine print on a bottle of wheel cleaner got real.
22 benchmarks
Disclosure is triggered by 22 authoritative chemical lists — California's Prop 65, U.S. EPA and NTP programs, the EU's CMR and endocrine-disruptor inventories, IARC's carcinogen groups, and more. Every one of them is linked below, straight to the issuing body.
Where AutofxMart fits
AutofxMart is a distributor. The Act puts the disclosure duty on the manufacturer of each designated product — the wash soaps, wheel cleaners, degreasers, glass cleaners, compounds, polishes, waxes, air care, and shop hand cleaners on our shelves. Brands like Meguiar's, 3M, and Mothers publish those ingredient pages on their own sites, which is exactly where the law wants them.
Our job is access. Every regulated SKU we list links its Safety Data Sheet, California Proposition 65 warnings surface right on the product page, and our support desk will chase down a manufacturer's disclosure for anything we stock — no trade account required.
Need the paperwork?
By law, ingredient disclosures live on the manufacturer's website — but you don't have to go hunting. Start here and the document finds you.
Every regulated SKU we list links its Safety Data Sheet and technical documents. The fastest route for most jobs is the SDS & Technical Library — searchable by brand, SKU, or document type.
Covered manufacturers must publish a Right to Know ingredient page for every designated product on their own website. Find the maker in our brands directory, then look for “ingredients”, “transparency”, or “SB 258” in their footer.
Can't find the document, or need it for a compliance binder? Email support@autofxmart.com with the SKU and we'll send the SDS or point you at the manufacturer's disclosure — usually same business day.
The screening benchmarks
Health & Safety Code §108952(g) defines the designated lists — 22 chemical inventories maintained by California, U.S., and international authorities. An intentionally added ingredient appearing on any of them must be disclosed. Each row links straight to the issuing body.
Fragrance & flavor
Beyond the 22 lists, the Act reaches fragrance allergens on Annex III of the EU Cosmetics Regulation (EC No 1223/2009): present at or above 0.01% (100 ppm) in a designated product, they belong in the ingredient disclosure. If a tutti-frutti air freshener smells that strong, the disclosure says why.
SDS ≠ disclosure
Safety Data Sheets follow federal OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard, which uses different triggers and thresholds than California's disclosure rules — so Section 3 of an SDS won't always match a Right to Know ingredient page word for word. Both are correct; they answer different laws. When in doubt, keep both in the binder.
On our shelves
Under the Act, the designated products in our catalogue are the cleaning side of the bay — car wash and detail chemistry, degreasers, glass cleaners, compounds and polishes, air care, and shop hand cleaners. The makers you'll see most:
Straight answers
No. The Act covers “designated products”: general cleaning products, air care, automotive appearance chemistry — wash soaps, wheel cleaners, degreasers, glass cleaners, compounds, polishes, waxes — and floor maintenance products. Refinish chemistry like primers, basecoats, clears, fillers, reducers, and adhesives falls under federal OSHA Hazard Communication instead: that's the SDS attached to every regulated product page.
No — and a careful shop keeps both. The SDS answers OSHA's workplace-hazard rules; the Right to Know disclosure answers California's consumer-ingredient rules. Thresholds and listing triggers differ, so the two documents won't always match. SDS live in our SDS library; ingredient disclosures live on each manufacturer's website.
The manufacturer — the party whose name is on the label. As a retailer, AutofxMart isn't the disclosing party under the Act. What we do is keep the paper trail short: brands that publish, SDS one click from the product page, and a support desk that will pull any document for anything we sell.
On the product page, where they belong. Proposition 65 is a separate California law — the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 — and products that require a warning show it before you add to cart. Details at p65warnings.ca.gov.
For every cleaning product in regular use: the current SDS — HazCom requires one wherever employees handle the product — plus, for designated products, a pointer to the manufacturer's ingredient disclosure. Run the three steps above for each SKU in the wash bay and the binder is audit-ready. Want a hand building it? support@autofxmart.com.
Compliance binder duty?
Send the SKU and we'll get the SDS, the tech sheet, or the manufacturer's ingredient disclosure into your hands — same business day, most of the time.
