Maximum Hold Hair Styling Gel safety rating

Maximum Hold Hair Styling Gel safety rating | Greenlens

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Ingredient safety

A 46-point gap between the two loudest voices.

42Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependent

88Greenlens Tolerance ScreenIndependent

050100

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Ingredient safety

46 pts apart

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Independent — not funded by the brands it rates. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. This score changed Sep 1, 2026: source data updated. about this rater →
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Independent — not funded by the brands it rates. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. This score changed Sep 1, 2026: source data updated. about this rater →

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

Environmental

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5 ratings · 2 of 4 axes

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Environmental1.0×

Laborno rating

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Packagingno rating

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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 (4)

TRIETHANOLAMINEfragrance · buffering · surfactant - cleansingraters disagree
ANSES CMR-listedflagged by 3 of 9 lists →
FRAGRANCEundeclared fragrance blend

No flags in our sources (6)

No data in our sources (1)

PHENOXYETHANOL LODOPROPYNYL BUTYLCARBAMATE

Not a verdict — our authorities simply have no reference for these.

What these ingredient tags mean (4)

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

common irritantPROPYLENE GLYCOL
- 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).
undeclared fragrance blendFRAGRANCE
- FRAGRANCE: A blend the label does not itemize, so what is in it cannot be read from the ingredient list. EU Regulation (EC) 1223/2009 permits the collective term "parfum"; the SCCS Opinion on Fragrance Allergens (SCCS/1459/11) reviews the contact-allergy evidence for the substances it can contain.
humectantD-PANTHENOL
- D-PANTHENOL: A provitamin B5 humectant used in products aimed at irritated and healing skin. On the humectant half: Ferreira VTP, Silva GC, Martin AA, Maia Campos PMBG, "Topical dexpanthenol effects on physiological parameters of the stratum corneum by Confocal Raman Microspectroscopy", Skin Res Technol 2023;29(9):e13317, DOI 10.1111/srt.13317, PMID 37753694, PMCID PMC10504581, open access, Introduction: "As a humectant, it has been shown to retain water more efficiently than other humectants during the last stages of dehydration..." On the soothing half, which that paper does NOT support: Cho YS, Kim HO, Woo SM, Lee DH, "Use of Dexpanthenol for Atopic Dermatitis—Benefits and Recommendations Based on Current Evidence", J Clin Med 2022;11(14):3943, DOI 10.3390/jcm11143943, PMID 35887707, open access, section 3.5: "To facilitate wound healing, dexpanthenol reduces inflammation, and promotes cell proliferation and epithelial remodeling."
soothingD-PANTHENOL
- A provitamin B5 humectant used in products aimed at irritated and healing skin.