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Cosmetics only · lead with safetyProduct data from public sources incl. Open Beauty Facts & EWG Skin Deep · their ratings never scraped or shown
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Boots Vitamin C Serum
Boots No7

Boots Vitamin C Serum

Face
Aloe Ferox Serum

Cleaner pick · Safest serums & essences we have rated

Africology Skincare & Spa

Aloe Ferox Serum

+7 on ingredient safety

30ml · 569 ZAR · 1896.67 ZAR/100 ml

Ingredient safetyRaters agree
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Your composite

93OUT OF 100Excellent

Ingredient safety only

range 82–100

93
Safety
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Why this score

2-point split

100

Scan

98

Precautionary

100

Tolerance

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Every rater, every axis

Ingredient safety

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✓Also screened, nothing found: EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI) · California Proposition 65 · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · ANSES Endocrine Disruptors · ECHA SVHC Candidate List

Environmental

    ✓Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction

    Coverage & match quality

    5 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.

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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·19 of 19 characterized

    Our sources have reference data on all 19 listed ingredients.

    Worth a look (3)

    • PHENOXYETHANOL4/10preservative · antimicrobialraters disagree

      Mild sensitizer for some · flagged by 1 of 9 lists

    • CITRIC ACID4/10fragrance · chelating · bufferingraters disagree

      Health Canada Hotlist — restricted · flagged by 1 of 9 lists

    • ALOE BARBADENSIS LEAF JUICE4/10skin conditioningraters disagree

      IARC possible carcinogen (Group 2B) · flagged by 1 of 9 lists

    ✓No flags in our sources (16)

    • AQUA
    • GLYCERINhumectant
    • PEG-12 DIMETHICONE
    • 3-O-ETHYL ASCORBIC ACID
    • PPG-26-BUTETH-26
    • SODIUM CITRATE
    • AMMONIUM ACRYLOYLDIMETHYLTAURATE/VP COPOLYMER
    • PEG-40 HYDROGENATED CASTOR OIL
    • DIPOTASSIUM GLYCYRRHIZATE
    • CHLORPHENESIN
    • XANTHAN GUM
    • BISABOLOLsoothing
    • DISODIUM EDTA
    • MALTODEXTRIN
    • POTASSIUM SORBATE
    • SODIUM BENZOATE
    What these ingredient tags mean (2)

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

    • humectantGLYCERIN

      • 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".
    • soothingBISABOLOL

      • BISABOLOL: The main soothing component isolated from chamomile. Eddin LB et al., "Health Benefits, Pharmacological Effects, Molecular Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Potential of alpha-Bisabolol", Nutrients 2022;14(7):1370, DOI 10.3390/nu14071370, PMID 35405982, open access: it "is integrated in many cosmetic formulations due to its skin soothing effects, well documented dermal absorption and the absence of dermal irritations or photosensitivity following its application". The EMA HMPC assessment report on Matricaria recutita (EMA/HMPC/55837/2011) discusses its anti-inflammatory data.