Stop wondering.
Start knowing.
You’ve studied the FDA website. You’ve asked online and gotten conflicting information. You’ve read up on (and thought you understood) what’s required. You’ve even checked ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini … and still you’re not totally sure.
Compliance Advisor gives you the tools to check your own work — any time, day or night. The AI reads your label and applies Marie’s written criteria; every pass and fail comes from Marie’s rules, not an AI’s opinion. And when the tools aren’t enough, you get an answer from Marie, not a bot.
- Check your label against the labeling requirements — before you print
- See every acceptable version of your ingredient declaration and pick the one you like
- Know whether your fragrance blend meets IFRA safety standards
- Check your ingredient names against the preferred names
- Get a specific answer to a specific question — from Marie, not a bot
- Plain-English guidance you can use today
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The same rules every time — no different answer on Tuesday than Monday.
New regulations, guidance and resources added regularly.
Not knowing is the hardest part
Most makers don’t get stuck because they can’t find information. They get stuck because they find too much of it, from sources that don’t agree, with no way to tell which one is right.
You can read the regulation and still not know whether, or exactly how, it applies to you. You can get a confident answer online and have no idea whether the person giving it has ever labeled and sold a product in their life. Even scarier, you can ask an AI and get something that sounds authoritative but has a serious hidden flaw.
So finishing a label takes longer than making the product. And it’s a LOT less fun. You get to the version you’re fairly sure about, but there’s still the part you keep meaning to double-check, and the nagging worry that something might be off and you don’t know exactly what.
The good news is that the time you’ve already put into this isn’t wasted. Wanting to understand the rules — not just be told what to do — is the right instinct. It’s why all the articles from Navigating the Rules and Regs belong in the Reference Library. When you want to delve into the details, it’s there.
But you shouldn’t have to hold all of it in your head to finish a label. Compliance Advisor is somewhere you can actually check: a label goes in and comes back marked, this passes, this doesn’t, here’s what to fix. An ingredient list comes back with every acceptable version so you can choose one. A fragrance blend comes back with the allergen math already done.
What’s left is the work you actually wanted to be doing — and a label you can print and use without a second thought.
This isn’t just software. It’s my expertise.
yes, really — I do write the code!
I’ve spent more than twenty years helping soap and cosmetic makers understand and comply with FDA, FTC, state and international regulations.
My books have sold more than 100,000 copies, because I believe complicated regulations should be explained in plain English.
I also wrote the code. These tools run on rules I wrote from those twenty years, built into programming I tested myself. The AI reads your label and, where a check needs it, applies my written criteria to what it read. It doesn’t make up its own rules.
So when you ask a question here, you get my experience — not a generic answer, and not an AI guess.
- Decades of experience
- Thousands of questions answered
- Practical guidance in plain English
- Built for soap & cosmetic makers
- Rules and code written by me
Twenty years of answers,
built into
six tools you can use yourself.
What you get (and how it helps)
Label Full Check
A comprehensive review of your complete label — 53 checks against federal and state labeling rules and common best practice.
- Ingredient declaration, warnings, directions, claims and more
- Clear pass / fail results, each with the reason and what to do
- A plain-English report with the next step spelled out
- Re-run it after you make corrections — that’s what it’s for
Ingredient Declaration Builder
Enter your formula with percentages and get back all the correct ways to state your ingredient declaration (even more for soap!) with the right names, in the right order.
- Search a vetted ingredient database
- Ordered automatically by concentration
- Official names, common names, or both
- Copy, download or print — and saved to your dashboard
Fragrance Allergen & IFRA Checker
Checks your fragrance and essential oil usage against IFRA standards and EU/California fragrance allergen lists.
- Calculation of the highest likely amounts of any IFRA-restricted fragrance substances
- IFRA category and maximum usage rates
- Identification of California-reportable allergens
- Download or print — and saved to your dashboard
Ask Marie
When the rules are unclear, or your situation is the odd one, send me the question and I’ll get you an answer.
- Most questions answered within 1 business day
- Clear, practical guidance you can act on
- No question is too basic, and none is too odd
- Your questions saved to your dashboard for reference
Monthly Office Hours
A live call each month. Bring your questions, or listen to everyone else’s — that’s usually where the useful stuff is.
- Open Q&A with Marie
- Walk through real labels and real problems
- Can’t make it live? Send your question ahead
- Every session recorded and saved to the Reference Library
Reference Library
Articles, worksheets, checklists and recordings — including past Office Hours sessions and all the articles in Marie’s book, Navigating the Rules and Regs. (New sections of the book are going live weekly as they’re added.)
- Searchable by topic and by keyword
- Templates and checklists you can adapt for your own products
- Keep track of what you’ve read or watched and what you haven’t
- Glossary of 400+ labeling and compliance terms
This isn’t for everyone. (worth saying up front)
If you only sell occasionally at craft fairs, make a handful of products, and aren’t looking to grow, you probably don’t need a subscription. Buy a Label Quick Check when you need one, and take advantage of the free articles on the blog.
If you make products or labels for others, a subscription covers your own products, not your clients’. Talk to me and we’ll work out something that fits.
If you’re selling into the EU or Canada, the tools will flag where those rules differ, but they’re built around US requirements and won’t cover everything you need there.
Makers trust Marie Gale
I love, love, love your organized and thorough approach; you really do provide great value for the investment. I'm so grateful I found you.
Thank you, Marie! I am so glad to have your help.
Questions people ask
It does — your $9 comes off your first payment if you subscribe within 60 days of running your check.
The surest way to get it is to use the link in one of your Quick Check emails, or the one on your results page, and enter the same email address you bought your Quick Check with. The $9 comes off the total as soon as you do. Being signed in works too.
If you have trouble getting the credit to apply, contact me and we’ll get it sorted out.
Pick your plan
- Every compliance tool
- 10 Label Full Checks a month
- Everything else with no monthly limit
- Ask Marie — answers from a person
- Monthly live office hours
- The searchable compliance library
- No setup fee, no contract
- Cancel any time from your dashboard
What happens next
- 1 Pay, and your subscription starts straight away.
- 2 We’ll email you a link to set your password — that’s the last step.
- 3 Already have an account with us? Just sign in; there’s nothing to set up again.
- 4 Every tool opens the moment you’re in.
- 5 Change your plan or cancel any time from your dashboard.
Your rate is locked. For as long as your subscription stays active — if the price goes up later, yours doesn’t.
Not ready? Start with the free MoCRA Wizard, or take a single Label Quick Check for $9 — and that $9 comes off your first payment if you subscribe within 60 days of running it.