Essie
Strong Start Base Coat Nail Polish
2018 formulationNail Polish
Cleaner pick · Safest nails we have rated
Daylogic
Nail Polish Remover Acetone free, Lavender+12 on ingredient safety
Ingredient safetyRaters agree
Cleaner pick · Safest nails we have rated
Daylogic
Nail Polish Remover Acetone free, Lavender+12 on ingredient safety
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Cleaner options
170 found
Raters split
Ingredient safety
A 20-point gap between the two loudest voices.
All 170 cleaner options, safest first We show the best 12, including the strongest on each axis.
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Also screened, nothing found: California Proposition 65 · IARC Monographs · ECHA SVHC Candidate List · EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI) · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · Health Canada Ingredient Hotlist
Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction
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Coverage & match quality
5 ratings · 2 of 4 axes
Tune your weights
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+No rater covers this axis for this product, so its weight can't move the score.
No rater covers this axis for this product, so its weight can't move the score.
Data availability
Robust9 of 10 characterized
Our sources have reference data on 9 of 10 listed ingredients; 1 is uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill.
Worth a look (1)
ANSES endocrine candidateflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
No flags in our sources (8)
No data in our sources (1)
Not a verdict — our authorities simply have no reference for these.
These describe what an ingredient is, not whether it is a problem. The stance marks above are the ratings; these are not.
commonly dryingISOPROPYL ALCOHOL
Where this came from
Cruelty-free status recorded from peta.org ↗
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