About
Small Print Labels turns what a maker already knows (a recipe, a supplier's declaration) into a correct, current product label, with a tool for each product type: soap, skincare & body, candles & wax melts, home fragrance and food & drink. This is the part of labelling that is genuinely hard to get right by hand.
Why it exists
Take soap, where most makers start. Makers must label ingredients by their INCI names, in the right order, with fragrance allergens declared once they cross a threshold. Free calculators handle bits of this, but the allergen maths is fiddly and the rules differ by market: the EU's declarable-allergen list recently expanded from the familiar 26 (24 still in force by 2023) to 81, Great Britain kept its older list of 25, and the US has its own regime with a soap exemption. Getting it wrong means reprinting a batch of labels, or worse. Every product type has rules like these, and Small Print Labels does the same one job properly for each, per region.
The tools
- Soap: From recipe to a correctly ordered INCI declaration: saponification, the current fragrance-allergen rules and a print-ready PDF label.
- Skincare & body: Lotions, balms, butters and scrubs: a correctly ordered INCI list with the leave-on allergen thresholds and a print-ready PDF label.
- Candles & wax melts: CLP hazard labels for scented candles and wax melts: pictograms, signal word and UFI, built from your fragrance supplier's safety data.
- Home fragrance: Reed diffusers and room sprays: CLP pictograms and hazard statements for the EU and UK with the UFI where it applies, the FHSA warning for the US, from your supplier's data.
- Food & drink: Ingredient labels for Natasha's Law, EU FIC and US FALCPA: a descending-weight list with allergens emphasised or a 'Contains' statement, from your recipe.
- Barcode generator: An EAN-13 or UPC-A barcode from the number GS1 gave you, drawn to GS1's specification and free to download as PDF, SVG or PNG.
Who it is for
Makers who sell what they make, at markets, in shops or online, in the EU, the UK or the US: soap and skincare makers, candle and wax-melt makers, home-fragrance makers and home bakers. Every tool runs in your browser, you can try each one before paying, and you pay only to export a print-ready label. The barcode generator is free.
How it works
It's a deterministic rules engine: the same recipe always gives the same label. Saponification, the 1% cutline, ordering, and the allergen calculation are computed from encoded rules, and every value in its rule tables is traced to the official text it came from. Where a value can't be verified against a primary source, the tool flags it for you to check. The whole method, from the published texts to the monthly check, is on how the rules get into the tools.
Your responsibility
This tool assists you; you remain responsible for your product's labelling. The ingredient and allergen data behind Small Print Labels is transcribed from the official texts and checked against them, and that check is rerun on every change. Always read the notes it shows before using a label commercially.