Living nature
Active Brightening Serum
skincare
Raters split
Ingredient safety
A 20-point gap between the two loudest voices.
80EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI)Government
vs100Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependent
050100
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Every rater, every axis
Ingredient safety
Split · 20 pts apart- 94
- 82
- 90
- 100
- 85
- 80
Lowest 80 · highest 100 · gap 20
Also screened — no listing found
Environmental
Also screened — no listing found
Labor
- 74
Coverage & match quality
7 ratings · 2 of 4 axes
- Some ratings rest on an automatic match that has not been human-reviewed.
- Fewer raters reach smaller-brand products, so a missing rating is not a clean bill of health, only a gap.
no black box
How this score is built
no black box
How this score is built
We don't rate products ourselves. We collect what each public rater already says, put every scale on common ground, and keep the disagreements visible instead of averaging them away.
- 1
Collect each rater's own score
Every source keeps its native verdict for this product. We never invent a score for an axis a source didn't measure.
- 2
Normalize to 0–100, higher = better
Raters can use different scales and directions: some where a low number means safe, some where a high one does. We map them all onto one 0–100 axis and flip the ones that run backwards so the numbers are finally comparable.
- 3
Average per axis, but keep the spread
Scores on the same axis become one representative number (their mean). When raters split by 20+ points we flag it and keep every rater's number. A disagreement is never blended into silence.
- 4
Your weights make the overall
The ring is the weighted average of the four pillars using your weights. It's computed fresh every time and never stored, so there's no hidden “objective” default.
worked example · Ingredient safety
- Greenlens Tolerance Screen94 on 0–10094
- IARC Monographs82 on 0–10082
- Greenlens Ingredient Scan90 on 0–10090
- Greenlens Precautionary Screen100 on 0–100100
- Health Canada Ingredient Hotlist85 on 0–10085
- EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI)80 on 0–10080
Average of 94 · 82 · 90 · 100 · 85 · 80pillar84
Raters split here, so this 84 is a midpoint, not a consensus. The spread stays on the “every rater” list above.
Why the safety score
Greenlens Ingredient Scan
Independent · EU regulatory reference
90/100
Flagged 1 of 19 ingredients: 1 restricted.
Starts at 100; 18 other ingredients carried no recognized regulated hazard. Absence of a flag means no regulated hazard was recognized — not proof of safety. This is one lens; see where raters disagree above.
Why this score
Every ingredient, under all three lenses
The Scan is one opinion. The strict and lenient lenses read the same list and land 10 points apart. See what each one flags, and what it costs.
Weighted by what you care about
Tune your weights
composite recomputes live
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1.0×
Environmentalno rating
No rater covers this axis for this product, so its weight can't move the score.
1.0×
Packagingno rating
No rater covers this axis for this product, so its weight can't move the score.
0 means ignored. Higher = more weight in your composite.
Ingredients, decoded
Data availability
Robust18 of 19 characterized
Our sources have reference data on 18 of 19 listed ingredients; 1 is uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill.
| Ingredient | What it does | Safety | Data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquasolvent | solvent | No flags in our sources | Well-characterized |
| Glycerinperfuminghumectantdenaturant | perfuminghumectantdenaturant | No flags in our sources | Well-characterized |
| Pentylene glycolskin conditioningsolvent | skin conditioningsolvent | No flags in our sources | Well-characterized |
| Pentaclethra macroloba seed oilemollienthair conditioning | emollienthair conditioning | No flags in our sources | CosIng-catalogued |
| Cocos nucifera oilperfumingfragrancehair conditioning | perfumingfragrancehair conditioning | No flags in our sources | Well-characterized |
| Isoamyl laurateemollientskin conditioning | emollientskin conditioning | No flags in our sources | Well-characterized |
| Cetearyl olivatehair conditioning | hair conditioning | No flags in our sources | Well-characterized |
| Galactoarabinanfilm forming | film forming | No flags in our sources | CosIng-catalogued |
| Sorbitan olivatesurfactant - emulsifying | surfactant - emulsifying | No flags in our sources | Well-characterized |
| Phormium tenax extractskin conditioning | skin conditioning | No flags in our sources | CosIng-catalogued |
| Ascophyllum nodosum extractskin conditioning | skin conditioning | No flags in our sources | CosIng-catalogued |
| Xanthan gumbindingemulsion stabilisinggel forming | bindingemulsion stabilisinggel forming | No flags in our sources | Well-characterized |
| Sodium hyaluronatehumectantskin conditioning | humectantskin conditioning | No flags in our sources | Well-characterized |
| Rosa canina fruit oilemollientskin conditioning | emollientskin conditioning | No flags in our sources | CosIng-catalogued |
| Aloe barbadensis leaf juice powderskin conditioning | skin conditioning | IARC possible carcinogen (Group 2B)· flagged by 1 of 9raters disagree | Referenced |
| Tocopherolfragranceantioxidantskin conditioning | fragranceantioxidantskin conditioning | No flags in our sources | Well-characterized |
| Salicylic acidpreservativefragranceanti-seborrheic | preservativefragranceanti-seborrheic | EU harmonised CMR (cat. 2)· flagged by 4 of 9raters disagree | Referenced |
| Sodium phytatechelatingoral care | chelatingoral care | No flags in our sources | Well-characterized |
| Parfum.**From natural essential oils | Not in our sources | No data |