Effective January 1, 2025, Democrat-led officials in New York are regulating shampoo and where you can get it.

That’s right, folks, this isn’t a joke; they are actually regulating shampoo.

Hotels with 50 rooms or more will be obligated to discard toiletry bottles that are less than 12 ounces, per the Department of Environmental Conservation’s guidelines.

You read that correctly. Meaning that those great little bottles of shampoo that are in your hotel room are gone.

This regulation stems from a bill that was passed in the New York Assembly and was first brought forward in 2019. It addresses what is referred to as “hospitality personal care products,” a sophisticated term for the mini toiletries we are all familiar with.

What will occur if a hotel doesn’t adhere to the regulation? Initially, they will receive a warning and a 30-day period to rectify the issue. If they fail to do so, they will be met with a $250 fine. If they continue to disregard the rule after an additional 30 days, they incur a fine of $500.

Before you begin to fret, luckily, top hotel changes haven’t lost their mind and are installing workaround to ease travelers. Marriott Hotels, for example, are already transitioning from smaller toiletry bottles to larger, pump-topped ones.

Similarly, Hilton properties are expected to transition to full-size shampoo, conditioner, and soap amenities by 2023, eliminating the use of single-use miniature bottles and reducing the disposal of soap bars.

Note what happened here.

Democrat officials regulated small shampoo bottles (which use less plastic), so some hotel chains just swapped them out with bottles that use MORE PLASTIC!

Which defeats the whole purpose of the regulation.

What’s noteworthy is that starting from 2026, this rule will apply to all hotels in New York, not just the larger establishments.

The wizards of smart in the New York assembly apparently never considered that hotels would get bigger bottles.

I don’t believe for a second that using bigger bottles means that there will be less bottles. You know for a fact that people are going to take those bottles home with them especially if they are full size. Hotels will now just stock as many bottles as they did before just with bigger ones.

Great job New York! SMH.