What CraftCert covers
CraftCert classifies candles, wax melts, reed diffusers and room sprays against GB CLP, using the hazard data you enter from your suppliers’ safety data sheets, and drafts the label that classification produces.
Does the evidence pack replace a safety data sheet?
No. The evidence pack is not a safety data sheet and will not satisfy a retailer asking for one. They are separate documents.
The pack is CraftCert’s record of how your product was classified: the ingredient table you entered, the classification result, and the label elements that follow from it. It is meant for your own files and for trading-standards or marketplace audits.
If a retailer requires a full SDS, you will need to have one prepared separately. The evidence pack is a useful starting point for whoever writes it, along with your supplier SDSs.
Worth knowing before it goes anywhere: the pack includes the ingredient table you entered, with exact percentages. Treat it as commercially sensitive. Fine to give the person preparing your SDS, but think twice before sending it to a retailer, who does not need that level of detail to list your product.
Is the classification valid in the EU?
CraftCert produces GB CLP classifications only. GB and EU CLP update separately now, so for the EU or Northern Ireland you would need an EU CLP classification and the site does not do that. For sales in Great Britain, GB CLP is the right basis.
Northern Ireland follows EU CLP rather than GB CLP. If you sell there as well as in Great Britain, CraftCert covers part of what you need and not all of it. This is worth checking if you sell through a marketplace that lists across the whole of the UK. An EU CLP classification is not necessarily the only difference, either — what is changing in GB CLP covers where the two regimes have diverged.
What the classification does not cover
Cosmetics safety assessment. Soap, bath bombs, lip balm and skincare fall under the UK Cosmetics Regulation rather than CLP, so CraftCert does not classify them. The Cosmetic Product Safety Report, the SCPN notification, the Product Information File and the INCI ingredient list all need a qualified cosmetic safety assessor, and CraftCert does not produce any of them.
If you pick soap or bath bomb in the product form, CraftCert will not create the product. It is blocked rather than partially supported, and those products need a qualified cosmetic safety assessor instead. To work out which regime a given product falls under in the first place, the CLP or cosmetics regulation guide and the free cosmetic labelling checker both cover it without signing up.
Physical hazards, in part. Some physical hazards follow from what your ingredients are, and CraftCert classifies those where the product form allows it — a flammable liquid, for example, or a mixture corrosive to metals. Others do not follow from ingredients at all: whether a finished candle or wax melt is a flammable solid is established by testing the finished product, and CraftCert does not do that and cannot tell you the answer.
Two consequences worth knowing. A candle or a wax melt is a solid, so the flammable-liquid classes do not apply to it and CraftCert will not classify them there, even where an ingredient safety data sheet carries one — the open question for a solid is the flammable-solid one, which needs testing. And where an ingredient carries a physical-hazard code this engine has no category for at all, the classification result says so, rather than passing over it.
So treat a CraftCert classification as covering the health and environmental hazard classes, and the physical ones only as far as ingredient data can carry them.
IFRA conformity. An IFRA certificate sets usage limits for a fragrance by product category. That is a separate standard from CLP, and CraftCert neither reads IFRA certificates nor checks your product against one.
Toys. Products designed or clearly intended for play by children fall under the Toy (Safety) Regulations 2011 and the EN71 standards, which are a separate regime from CLP.
A professional compliance opinion. CraftCert drafts from the data you enter. It is not a professional compliance opinion and does not replace a qualified safety assessor. Accuracy depends on the supplier safety data sheets you enter, so verify the label against your original SDSs before putting it on a product. Legal responsibility for that label stays with you as the supplier.
Still not sure?
If you are not certain whether CraftCert covers what you sell, email support@craftcert.co.uk and describe the product. A straight answer either way is more use than a guess.