Listerine
Zero Mouthwash, Clean Mint (2019 formulation)
Mouthwash
Cleaner pick · Safest mouthwash we have rated
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Xylimelts Dry Mouth Melts, Mint Free (2020 formulation)+79 on ingredient safety
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Ingredient safety
A 27-point gap between the two loudest voices.
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Ingredient safety
27 pts apartIndependent — not funded by the brands it rates. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
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Also screened, nothing found: ECHA SVHC Candidate List · California Proposition 65 · ANSES Endocrine Disruptors · EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI) · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · Health Canada Ingredient Hotlist · IARC Monographs
Recognized on a safer-ingredients list: US EPA Safer Choice recognizes 55% of ingredients as safer choices — a marker, never a score.
Environmental
Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction
Labor
Run by a nonprofit. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. This rates Listerine as a company and applies to everything they make, not this product alone. Checked this week. about this rater →
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4 ratings · 2 of 4 axes
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Ingredients, decoded
Data availability
Robust10 of 11 characterized
Our sources have reference data on 10 of 11 listed ingredients; 1 is uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill.
Worth a look (3)
EU-prohibitedflagged by 2 of 9 lists
Undisclosed fragrance blendflagged by 2 of 9 lists
Transparency concernflagged by 1 of 9 lists
No flags in our sources (7)
No data in our sources (1)
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What these ingredient tags mean (1)
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common irritantPROPYLENE GLYCOL, SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE
- PROPYLENE GLYCOL: A solvent that shows up in patch-test clinics, more often as irritation than as allergy. American Contact Dermatitis Society, Allergen of the Year 2018 (Jacob SE, Scheman A, McGowan MA, Dermatitis 2018;29(1):3-5).
- SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE: A strong cleansing agent used as the reference irritant in skin-irritation testing. OECD Test Guideline 439 (in vitro skin irritation, reconstructed human epidermis), paragraph 24: "The suggested PC is 5% aqueous SDS", sodium dodecyl sulphate, the same substance as sodium lauryl sulfate, CAS 151-21-3.