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Catalog/MyChelle/Dermaceuticals Perfect C PRO Serum, 25%
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MyChelle

Dermaceuticals Perfect C PRO Serum, 25%

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Aloe Ferox Serum

Cleaner pick · Safest serums & essences we have rated

Africology Skincare & Spa

Aloe Ferox Serum

+37 on ingredient safety

30ml · 569 ZAR · 1896.67 ZAR/100 ml

Ingredient safetyRaters agree
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Your composite

76OUT OF 100Good

range 64–94

63▲▼ split
Safety
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Eco
88
Labor
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Pkg

Why this score

3-point split

97

Scan

98

Precautionary

100

Tolerance

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Ingredient safety

A 60-point gap between the two loudest voices.

40ANSES Endocrine DisruptorsGovernment
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100Greenlens Tolerance ScreenIndependent
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✓Also screened, nothing found: Health Canada Ingredient Hotlist · ECHA SVHC Candidate List · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · California Proposition 65 · IARC Monographs

Environmental

    ✓Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction

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    6 ratings · 2 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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    Ingredients, decoded

    Data availability

    Robust·27 of 27 characterized

    Our sources have reference data on all 27 listed ingredients.

    Worth a look (5)

    • ASCORBIC ACID6/10fragrance · antioxidant · bufferingraters disagree

      ANSES endocrine candidate · flagged by 1 of 9 lists →

    • ALCOHOL6/10commonly dryingfragrance · antimicrobial · antifoamingraters disagree

      ANSES endocrine candidate · flagged by 1 of 9 lists →

    • ALCOHOL DENAT6/10commonly dryingfragrance · antimicrobial · antifoamingraters disagree

      ANSES endocrine candidate · flagged by 1 of 9 lists →

    • BENZYL ALCOHOL6/10fragrance materialpreservative · perfuming · solventraters disagree

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

    • PHENOXYETHANOL4/10preservative · antimicrobialraters disagree

      Mild sensitizer for some · flagged by 1 of 9 lists →

    ✓No flags in our sources (22)

    • AQUA
    • SODIUM BICARBONATE
    • PENTYLENE GLYCOL
    • POLYGLYCERYL-4 CAPRATE
    • PHASEOLUS RADIATUS MERISTEM CELL CULTURE EXTRACT
    • SOLANUM LYCOPERSICUM FRUIT LIPIDS
    • WINE EXTRACT
    • GLUCOSAMINE HCL
    • ASTAXANTHIN
    • BETA-CAROTENE
    • ERGOTHIONEINE
    • FRUCTOOLIGOSACCHARIDES
    • UBIQUINONE
    • HELIANTHUS ANNUUS SEED OIL
    • TOCOPHEROL
    • CITRUS RETICULATA PEEL OIL
    • GLYCERINhumectant
    • SCLEROTIUM GUM
    • ETHYLHEXYLGLYCERIN
    • HAMAMELIS VIRGINIANA WATER
    • POLYSORBATE 20
    • POTASSIUM SORBATE
    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.

    • commonly dryingALCOHOL, ALCOHOL DENAT

      • ALCOHOL: A fast-evaporating solvent that leaves a dry finish. International Chemical Safety Card ICSC 0044, Ethanol (anhydrous), prepared by an international group of experts for the ILO and WHO: "The substance defats the skin, which may cause dryness or cracking." Bommannan et al., as reported by Lachenmeier DW, "Safety evaluation of topical applications of ethanol on the skin and inside the oral cavity", J Occup Med Toxicol 2008;3:26, DOI 10.1186/1745-6673-3-26, open access, reference 82: "Bommannan et al. found in vivo in humans that ethanol enters the skin and removes measurable quantities of the lipid barrier material from the stratum corneum." Both describe stronger exposures than a cosmetic formula.
      • ALCOHOL DENAT: Denatured ethanol: a fast-evaporating solvent that thins a formula and leaves a dry finish. International Chemical Safety Card ICSC 0044, Ethanol (anhydrous), prepared by an international group of experts for the ILO and WHO: "The substance defats the skin, which may cause dryness or cracking." WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care (2009) records depletion of the skin lipid barrier by lipid-dissolving alcohols, and also that "the lipid-dissolving effect of alcohols is inversely related to their concentration". Both describe stronger exposures than a cosmetic formula.
    • 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

      • 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".