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Vitamin C & Niacinamide Facial Moisturizer
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Vitamin C & Niacinamide Facial Moisturizer

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Ingredient safety

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    • EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI) flagged an ingredient

    This finding stands: the ingredient it names really is on the list we hold. Its 0-100 score does not count toward the pillar, because we only hold part of this label, and a partial list can only ever score too generously.

    ✓Also screened, nothing found: California Proposition 65 · ANSES Endocrine Disruptors · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · ECHA SVHC Candidate List · IARC Monographs · Health Canada Ingredient Hotlist

    ✓Recognized on a safer-ingredients list: US EPA Safer Choice recognizes 56% of ingredients as safer choices — a marker, never a score.

    Environmental

      ✓Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction

      Packaging

      • Independent — not funded by the brands it rates. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. We started showing this score on Sep 11, 2026. about this rater →

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      1 rating · 1 of 4 axes

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      • Fewer raters reach smaller-brand products, so a missing rating is not a clean bill of health, only a gap.

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      Ingredient safetyno rating

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

      Environmentalno rating

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      Laborno rating

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      1.0×
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      What we know about the packaging

      Unidentified·0 of 1 identified

      Nobody recorded what this pack is actually made of beyond “plastic”, so the packaging score is a stand-in for the middle of that range — not a reading of this container.

      • Recorded only as “plastic” — no resin code. It could be PET (#1) (widely recyclable) or PVC (#3) (hard to recycle); nothing on record says which, so it counts as 46 out of 100, the middle of that range.

      This says how precisely the packaging is described, not how good it is — a fully identified material can still be a bad one.

      How we know the packaging

      Read from the product photo, not declared by the maker — treat this score as weaker.

      The container looks like this, rather than the maker saying so. A photo also cannot show the resin code moulded into the base, so every plastic container reads as “plastic, unspecified” — the cautious end of the plastics range, not a finding about this particular pack.

      Ingredients, decoded

      Data availability

      Partial list·16 shown

      Only part of this product's ingredient list could be read from its source, so what is shown here is incomplete. We do not publish a safety score from a partial list.

      Worth a look (1)

      • Benzyl Alcohol6/10fragrance materialpreservative · perfuming · solventraters disagree

        EU harmonised skin sensitizer · flagged by 2 of 9 lists →

      ✓No flags in our sources (15)

      • Water
      • Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
      • Zea Mays Starch
      • Glycerinhumectant
      • Coconut Alkanes
      • Niacinamidesoothing
      • Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate
      • Cetearyl Alcohol
      • Behenyl Alcohol
      • Butyrospermum Parkii Butter
      • Panthenolhumectantsoothing
      • Xanthan Gum
      • Ethylhexylglycerin
      • Coco-Caprylate/Caprate
      • Sodium Benzoate
      What these ingredient tags mean (3)

      These describe what an ingredient is, not whether it is a problem. The stance marks above are the ratings; these are not.

      • fragrance materialBenzyl Alcohol

        • Benzyl Alcohol: Used both as a fragrance component and as a preservative; the EU names it either way. EU Regulation (EC) 1223/2009, Annex III entry 45: a fragrance substance whose presence must be indicated in the list of ingredients above 0,001% in leave-on and 0,01% in rinse-off products, because of established contact-allergy risk. That entry carries transition footnote (38), which is footnote (37) plus a condition: stock that does not comply may still be made available until 31 July 2028 only "provided that they comply with the restrictions applicable on 15 August 2023", and only if it was lawfully placed on the Union market before the 31 July 2026 cut-off. Entry 45 covers its non-preservative use; it is separately an allowed preservative at Annex V entry 34.
      • humectantGlycerin, Panthenol

        • Glycerin: A humectant, and one of the two ingredients a comparison of moisturiser components found made a significant difference to skin hydration. FDA OTC skin protectant monograph, 21 CFR 347.10(h), lists glycerin as a skin protectant at 20 to 45%. On the humectant half: Jeong CB, Han JY, Cho JC, Suh KD, Nam GW, "Analysis of electrical property changes of skin by oil-in-water emulsion components", Int J Cosmet Sci 2013;35(4):402-410, DOI 10.1111/ics.12059, PMID 23621673, found that "glycerine and urea showed significant skin hydration effects compared with other humectants".
        • Panthenol: A provitamin B5 humectant used in products aimed at irritated and healing skin. On the humectant half: Ferreira VTP, Silva GC, Martin AA, Maia Campos PMBG, "Topical dexpanthenol effects on physiological parameters of the stratum corneum by Confocal Raman Microspectroscopy", Skin Res Technol 2023;29(9):e13317, DOI 10.1111/srt.13317, PMID 37753694, PMCID PMC10504581, open access, Introduction: "As a humectant, it has been shown to retain water more efficiently than other humectants during the last stages of dehydration..." On the soothing half, which that paper does NOT support: Cho YS, Kim HO, Woo SM, Lee DH, "Use of Dexpanthenol for Atopic Dermatitis—Benefits and Recommendations Based on Current Evidence", J Clin Med 2022;11(14):3943, DOI 10.3390/jcm11143943, PMID 35887707, open access, section 3.5: "To facilitate wound healing, dexpanthenol reduces inflammation, and promotes cell proliferation and epithelial remodeling."
      • soothingNiacinamide, Panthenol

        • Niacinamide: A vitamin B3 form that supports the skin barrier and has anti-inflammatory activity; it turns up in products aimed at acne, rosacea and eczema. Camillo L, Zavattaro E, Savoia P, "Nicotinamide: A Multifaceted Molecule in Skin Health and Beyond", Medicina (Kaunas) 2025;61(2):254, DOI 10.3390/medicina61020254, PMID 40005371, open access: it "is extensively used in ... the treatment of dermatological conditions such as blistering diseases, atopic dermatitis, rosacea, and acne vulgaris", and contributes to reducing inflammation. On the acne evidence specifically: Liu H, Yu H, Xia J, Liu L, Liu GJ, Sang H, Peinemann F, "Topical azelaic acid, salicylic acid, nicotinamide, sulphur, zinc and fruit acid (alpha-hydroxy acid) for acne", Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2020;5:CD011368, DOI 10.1002/14651858.CD011368.pub2, PMID 32356369, records "low-quality evidence" for every nicotinamide comparison it could pool, and none of its four nicotinamide studies measured the physician global assessment at all.
        • Panthenol: A provitamin B5 humectant used in products aimed at irritated and healing skin. On the humectant half: Ferreira VTP, Silva GC, Martin AA, Maia Campos PMBG, "Topical dexpanthenol effects on physiological parameters of the stratum corneum by Confocal Raman Microspectroscopy", Skin Res Technol 2023;29(9):e13317, DOI 10.1111/srt.13317, PMID 37753694, PMCID PMC10504581, open access, Introduction: "As a humectant, it has been shown to retain water more efficiently than other humectants during the last stages of dehydration..." On the soothing half, which that paper does NOT support: Cho YS, Kim HO, Woo SM, Lee DH, "Use of Dexpanthenol for Atopic Dermatitis—Benefits and Recommendations Based on Current Evidence", J Clin Med 2022;11(14):3943, DOI 10.3390/jcm11143943, PMID 35887707, open access, section 3.5: "To facilitate wound healing, dexpanthenol reduces inflammation, and promotes cell proliferation and epithelial remodeling."