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Jamaican Black Castor Oil Cowash
Conditioner
Cleaner pick · Safest cleansing we have rated
Africology Skincare & Spa
Bio Therapy Shampoo+49 on ingredient safety
250ml · 47.50 ZAR · 19 ZAR/100 ml
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A 47-point gap between the two loudest voices.
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Also screened, nothing found: ECHA SVHC Candidate List · California Proposition 65 · EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI) · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · IARC Monographs
Recognized on a safer-ingredients list: US EPA Safer Choice recognizes 56% of ingredients as safer choices — a marker, never a score.
Environmental
Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction
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Ingredients, decoded
Data availability
Robust39 of 39 characterized
Our sources have reference data on all 39 listed ingredients.
Worth a look (10)
ANSES endocrine candidateflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
Strong contact sensitizerflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
Undisclosed fragrance blendflagged by 2 of 9 lists →
EU-restricted (with limits)flagged by 2 of 9 lists →
EU-restricted (with limits)flagged by 2 of 9 lists →
Mild sensitizer for someflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
Health Canada Hotlist — restrictedflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
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No flags in our sources (29)
- Aqua/Water/Eau
- Cetearyl Alcohol
- Betaine
- Linum Usitatissimum Seed Extractfragrance material
- Ricinus Communis Seed Oil
- Tocopherol
- Phytosterols
- Glycerinhumectant
- Ceramide NGbarrier lipid
- Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine
- Polyquaternium-10
- Potassium Chloride
- Dipropylene Glycol
- Polyquaternium-37
- Caprylyl Glycol
- Propylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate
- PEG-40 Castor Oil
- Sodium Benzoate
- PEG-400
- PPG-1 Trideceth-6
- Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate
- PEG-100 Stearate
- Hydroxypropyl Bispalmitamide MEA
- PEG-3 Distearate
- Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate
- Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate
- Ceteareth-25
- Abies Balsamea Resinfragrance material
- Piroctone Olamine
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 irritantCocamidopropyl Betaine
- Cocamidopropyl Betaine: A mild cleansing agent, but a recurring patch-test finding, usually traced to leftovers from how it is made. American Contact Dermatitis Society, Allergen of the Year 2004 (Fowler JF Jr, Dermatitis 2004;15(1):3-4).
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.
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".
barrier lipidCeramide NG
- Ceramide NG: One of the lipid families the skin barrier is actually built from. Feingold KR and Elias PM, "The role of ceramides in the disruption of the cutaneous permeability barrier, a common manifestation of skin disorders", J Lipid Res 2024;65(8):100593, DOI 10.1016/j.jlr.2024.100593, open access: the barrier lipid matrix "by weight is approximately 50% ceramides, 25% cholesterol, and 15% free fatty acids".