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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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Catalog/BILLY JEALOUSY LLC/Salicylic Face Wash
Salicylic Face Wash
BILLY JEALOUSY LLC

Salicylic Face Wash

skincare

Your composite

90OUT OF 100Excellent

range 86–94

90
Safety
90
Eco
—
Labor
—
Pkg

Why this score

17-point split

81

Scan

98

Precautionary

94

Tolerance

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Cleaner options

12 found

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Flagged

6 ingredients

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Cleaner options

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Same category, ranked by ingredient safety, never by affiliate payout.

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Every rater, every axis

Ingredient safety

Raters agree
  • Health Canada Ingredient HotlistGovernmentunverified match
    85
  • Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependentunverified match
    98
  • Greenlens Tolerance ScreenIndependentunverified match
    94
  • Greenlens Ingredient ScanIndependentunverified match
    81

Also screened — no listing found

  • ANSES Endocrine Disruptors
  • ECHA SVHC Candidate List
  • EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI)
  • IARC Monographs
  • California Proposition 65
  • US NTP Report on Carcinogens

Recognized on a safer-ingredients list

  • US EPA Safer Choice (SCIL) — 50% of ingredients recognized

Environmental

  • EU Microplastics RestrictionGovernmentunverified match
    90

Coverage & match quality

5 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

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

  • Health Canada Ingredient Hotlist85 on 0–100→85
  • Greenlens Precautionary Screen98 on 0–100→98
  • Greenlens Tolerance Screen94 on 0–100→94
  • Greenlens Ingredient Scan81 on 0–100→81
Average of 85 · 98 · 94 · 81pillar90

Why the safety score

Greenlens Ingredient Scan

Independent · EU regulatory reference

81/100

Flagged 5 of 12 ingredients: 1 restricted, 3 regulated allergens.

  • CamphorEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III / Reg. (EU) 2023/1545 (labelled fragrance allergen)−3
  • MentholEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III / Reg. (EU) 2023/1545 (labelled fragrance allergen)−3
  • Eucalyptus Globulus Leaf OilEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III / Reg. (EU) 2023/1545 (labelled fragrance allergen)−3
  • POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE / SODIUM HYDROXIDEEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III (restricted)−10

Starts at 100; 8 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 17 points apart. See what each one flags, and what it costs.

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Weighted by what you care about

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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.

Flagged ingredients

  • Camphor4 positions →
  • Carbomer4 positions →
  • Eucalyptus Globulus Leaf Oil3 positions →
  • Menthol3 positions →
  • Phenoxyethanol3 positions →
  • POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE / SODIUM HYDROXIDE3 positions →

Ingredients, decoded

Data availability

Robust·11 of 12 characterized

Our sources have reference data on 11 of 12 listed ingredients; 1 is 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→antiplaqueskin conditioningsolventantiplaqueskin conditioningsolventNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Isopropyl Alcohol→perfumingantifoamingsolventperfumingantifoamingsolventNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Polysorbate 20→surfactant - cleansingsurfactant - emulsifyingsurfactant - cleansingsurfactant - emulsifyingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Carbomer→emulsion stabilisinggel formingviscosity controllingemulsion stabilisinggel formingviscosity controlling4/10EU microplastics-restricted· flagged by 1 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
Butylene Glycol→fragrancehumectantskin conditioningfragrancehumectantskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Phenoxyethanol→preservativeantimicrobialpreservativeantimicrobial4/10Mild sensitizer for some· flagged by 1 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
Camphor→fragrancedenaturantplasticiserfragrancedenaturantplasticiser4/10EU-regulated fragrance allergen· flagged by 2 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
Menthol→fragrancedenaturantrefreshingfragrancedenaturantrefreshing4/10EU-regulated fragrance allergen· flagged by 1 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
Eucalyptus Globulus Leaf Oil→perfumingskin conditioningperfumingskin conditioning4/10EU-regulated fragrance allergen· flagged by 1 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
Sodium Hydroxide→bufferingdenaturantbufferingdenaturant4/10EU-restricted (with limits)· flagged by 2 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
Tetrasodium EDTA→chelatingchelatingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Blue 1→—Not in our sourcesNo data