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The one rule

We never blend a score that hides who disagrees. Funding model travels with every rating. Weights are computed at read time and never stored.

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Herbivore Botanicals

BAKUCHIOL Dual-Retinol Alternative Face Serum

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Your composite

100OUT OF 100Excellent
100
Safety
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Eco
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Labor
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Pkg

Why this score

lenses agree

100

Scan

100

Precautionary

100

Tolerance

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Flags

No ingredient flags.

Every rater, every axis

Ingredient safety

Raters agree
  • Greenlens Ingredient ScanIndependentunverified match
    100
  • Greenlens Tolerance ScreenIndependentunverified match
    100

Coverage & match quality

2 ratings · 1 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

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. 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. 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. 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. 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 Ingredient Scan100 on 0–100→100
  • Greenlens Tolerance Screen100 on 0–100→100
Average of 100 · 100pillar100

Why the safety score

Greenlens Ingredient Scan

Independent · EU regulatory reference

100/100

No EU-regulated hazards recognized among 16 ingredients.

Starts at 100; 16 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. See how the strict and lenient lenses read the same list, ingredient by ingredient.

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Weighted by what you care about

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Environmentalno rating

No rater covers this axis for this product, so its weight can't move the score.

Laborno rating

No rater covers this axis for this product, so its weight can't move the score.

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

Robust·14 of 16 characterized

Our sources have reference data on 14 of 16 listed ingredients; 2 are uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill.

Every listed ingredient: its function, where our safety lists land, and whether our sources have data on it.
IngredientWhat it doesSafetyData
Water/aqua/eau→solventsolventNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
propanediol→solventviscosity controllingsolventviscosity controllingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
glycerin→perfuminghumectantdenaturantperfuminghumectantdenaturantNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
piroctone olamine→preservativeanti-seborrheicpreservativeanti-seborrheicNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
dicaprylyl carbonate→emollientskin conditioningemollientskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
caprylic/capric triglyceride→perfumingfragranceskin conditioningperfumingfragranceskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
bakuchiol→antimicrobialantioxidantemollientantimicrobialantioxidantemollientNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
pisum sativum extract→skin conditioningskin protectingskin conditioningskin protectingNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
morus alba bark extract→skin conditioningskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
lentinous edodes mushroom extract→—Not in our sourcesNo data
melia azadirachta flower extract→skin conditioningskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
citrus aurantium dulcis fruit extract→fragranceskin conditioningfragranceskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
radix polygoni multiflori root extract→—Not in our sourcesNo data
haematococcus pluvialis extract→antioxidantantioxidantNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
lavandula angustifolia oil→fragrancetonicfragrancetonicNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
pentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate→antioxidantantioxidantNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized