OPSS enforcement actions 1 October 2025 to 31 March 2026
Updated 19 February 2024
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The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), the UK’s product regulator is part of the Department for Business and Trade, and exercises the powers of the Secretary of State in relation to a range of regulations. Our approach to addressing non-compliance by those we regulate, and potential product safety risks, is set out in our Enforcement Policy. This also sets out the approach we take to publishing details of enforcement actions.
The enforcement actions listed below were taken by OPSS from 1 October 2025 onwards. Further enforcement actions will be added periodically. Actions are grouped under the following headings: Product Safety.
Product Safety – February 2026
Business: HOTHOUSE BEAUTY LTD marketed as “Kids Stuff”
Action taken:
Suspension Notice dated 27 February 2026, served under Regulation 11(1) of the General Product Safety Regulations 2005, with effect until 27 August 2026.
Products:
Kids Stuff Blue Crazy Foaming Soap 200ml foaming soap, Kids Stuff Pink Crazy Foaming Soap 200 ml, Kids Stuff Purple Crazy Foaming Soap 200ml, with batch numbers:
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26109E 3 (Pink);
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25947E 1 (Pink);
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26112E 5 (Blue);
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26112E 4 (Blue);
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25948E 3 (Blue);
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25651E 3 (Purple); and any other aerosolised foaming soap products, produced by Hothouse Beauty Ltd, with the same flammability characteristics.
Detail:
There are reasonable grounds to suspect that the products are not safe products and therefore may contravene Regulation 5 of the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 because the flammability characteristics of the products, when used under normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions, pose a safety risk, particularly to vulnerable persons including children.
The producer is required to suspend the products from the market while further investigations are carried out.
The risk associated with these products is highlighted on the Product Safety Report.