Bipartisan lawmakers are looking to regulate shampoos, makeup, perfume, and other personal care products more stringently, which could result in having the government inspect factories and ban ingredients to ensure safety.

The cosmetics industry for more than 80 years has enjoyed loose oversight from the Food and Drug Administration, the agency tasked with overseeing medicines, food, and medical devices. Now that the cosmetics industry has grown to a $60 billion-a-year market and has suffered some high-profile lawsuits, some members of Congress are looking for the FDA to police cosmetics more aggressively.