Skinstitut · Expert Retinol Face Oil
Three independent Greenlens lenses read the same 21 ingredients and land 82 points apart. That gap is not an error. Each lens asks a different question, and this page shows every answer, ingredient by ingredient, blended into nothing.
Our sources have reference data on all 21 listed ingredients. Our sources can only speak to ingredients they recognize — either flagged by an authority or known to be a common, well-characterized ingredient. An uncharacterized ingredient is a gap in our data, not a clean bill of health: a quiet safety scan over ingredients we can’t place is a weaker signal than one over ingredients we can.
Independent
The regulatory baseline. Follows EU cosmetic law: prohibited and restricted ingredients cost points, and allergen labelling is capped so it cannot tank a score on its own.
Flagged 12 of 21 ingredients: 3 restricted, 3 of concern, 6 regulated allergens.
Independent
The strict lens. Flags any ingredient with a listed hazard trait (SIN List, IARC, Prop 65), even when regulators still permit it.
Flagged 3 of 21 ingredients on hazard grounds: 2 carcinogen-linked, 1 endocrine-active.
Independent
The lenient lens. Trusts dose and regulation: permitted ingredients kept within their legal caps are tolerated, and only genuinely prohibited substances take a big hit.
Flagged 3 of 21 ingredients: 3 restricted (within-limit).
These lenses disagree. A split of 82 points crosses our disagreement threshold (20). We keep every verdict and never average them; the table below is where the split comes from.
| Ingredient | Scan | Precautionary | Tolerance |
|---|---|---|---|
| RetinolEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III (restricted) | −10restricted | −40carcinogen | −6restricted |
| BHT / BHACommon transparency/sensitization concern (not a regulatory ban) | −12 |
Coverage & match quality
1 rating · 1 of 4 axes
The overall ring on the product page is the weighted mean of the four pillars using your weights, computed fresh on every visit and never stored. How each lens's reference lists were built, penalty by penalty, is on the methodology page.
← Back to Expert Retinol Face Oil| −40carcinogen |
| noted, 0concern |
| BHT / BHACommon transparency/sensitization concern (not a regulatory ban) | −12concern | −22endocrine | noted, 0concern |
| ARACHIS HYPOGAEA OIL; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA SEEDCOAT EXTRACT; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA FLOUR; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA FRUIT EXTRACT; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA SPROUT EXTRACT; HYDROGENATED PEANUT OIL; PEANUT ACID; PEANUT GLYCERIDES; PEANUT OIL PEG-6 ESTERS; PEANUTAMIDE MEA; PEANUTAMIDE MIPA; POTASSIUM PEANUTATE; SODIUM PEANUTAMPHOACETATE; SODIUM PEANUTATE; SULFATED PEANUT OILEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III (restricted) | −10restricted | · | −6restricted |
| RetinolEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III (restricted) | −10restricted | · | −6restricted |
| Fragrance / Parfum (undisclosed)Common transparency/sensitization concern (not a regulatory ban) | −12concern | · | noted, 0concern |
| Alpha-Isomethyl IononeEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III / Reg. (EU) 2023/1545 (labelled fragrance allergen) | −3allergen | · | noted, 0allergen |
| CitralEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III / Reg. (EU) 2023/1545 (labelled fragrance allergen) | −3allergen | · | noted, 0allergen |
| CoumarinEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III / Reg. (EU) 2023/1545 (labelled fragrance allergen) | −3allergen | · | noted, 0allergen |
| GeraniolEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III / Reg. (EU) 2023/1545 (labelled fragrance allergen) | −3allergen | · | noted, 0allergen |
| LimoneneEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III / Reg. (EU) 2023/1545 (labelled fragrance allergen) | noted, 0allergen | · | noted, 0allergen |
| LinaloolEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III / Reg. (EU) 2023/1545 (labelled fragrance allergen) | noted, 0allergen | · | noted, 0allergen |
−N points subtracted by that lens, labelled with its concern · noted, 0 seen but tolerated under that philosophy · · not on that lens's reference lists. Open an ingredient for the full reasoning and every rater's position. 9 other ingredients matched no list at all.