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Retinol Cream
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badgerbalm
Tattoo Balm+25 on ingredient safety
$13.99
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Ingredient safety
A 33-point gap between the two loudest voices.
65California Proposition 65Government
vs98Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependent
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Ingredient safety
33 pts apartA government authority. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. 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. about this rater →
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Also screened, nothing found: US NTP Report on Carcinogens · ANSES Endocrine Disruptors · ECHA SVHC Candidate List
Recognized on a safer-ingredients list: US EPA Safer Choice recognizes 57% of ingredients as safer choices — a marker, never a score.
Environmental
Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction
Labor
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8 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
Robust20 of 21 characterized
Our sources have reference data on 20 of 21 listed ingredients; 1 is uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill.
Worth a look (5)
Prop 65-listedflagged by 4 of 9 lists
EU harmonised skin sensitizerflagged by 1 of 9 lists
IARC possible carcinogen (Group 2B)flagged by 1 of 9 lists
Mild sensitizer for someflagged by 1 of 9 lists
EU-restricted (with limits)flagged by 2 of 9 lists
No flags in our sources (15)
- Water
- Mineral Oilrich occlusive
- Cetearyl Alcohol
- Glyceryl Stearate SE
- Isopropyl Myristatecomedogenic in testing
- Glycerinhumectant
- Butylene Glycol
- Ceteareth-20
- Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
- Camellia Sinensis Leaf
- Anthemis Nobilis Flower Extract
- Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
- Disodium EDTA
- Maltodextrin
- Caprylyl Glycol
No data in our sources (1)
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.
comedogenic in testingIsopropyl Myristate
- Isopropyl Myristate: A light emollient, and the ester the rabbit-ear literature names first. Fulton JE Jr, Pay SR, Fulton JE 3rd, "Comedogenicity of current therapeutic products, cosmetics, and ingredients in the rabbit ear", J Am Acad Dermatol 1984;10(1):96-105, PMID 6229554. The openly readable abstract names this ingredient among its "ingredient offenders", in prose and without a numeric rating: "Ingredient offenders include isopropyl myristate and its analogs, such as isopropyl palmitate, isopropyl isostearate, butyl stearate, isostearyl neopentanoate, myristyl myristate..." The rabbit-ear assay rates raw ingredients and does not predict how a finished formula behaves on human skin.
retinoidRetinol
- Retinol: A vitamin A derivative that speeds skin turnover; dryness and flaking while skin adjusts are its usual accompaniment. SCCS Opinion on Vitamin A (Retinol, Retinyl Acetate, Retinyl Palmitate), SCCS/1576/16, final version of 6 October 2016; Commission Regulation (EU) 2024/996 added the group to EU Regulation (EC) 1223/2009 Annex III entry 376, capping it at 0,05% retinol equivalent in body lotion and 0,3% in other leave-on and rinse-off products, with the label statement "Contains Vitamin A. Consider your daily intake before use."
rich occlusiveMineral Oil
- Mineral Oil: A refined oil that sits on the surface of the skin; it has a heavy finish. FDA OTC skin protectant monograph, 21 CFR 347.10(l): "Mineral oil, 50 to 100 percent; 30 to 35 percent in combination with colloidal oatmeal in accordance with 347.20(a)(4)."
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".