Fluoride Toothpaste, Charcoal Peppermint (2020 formulation) safety rating

Fluoride Toothpaste, Charcoal Peppermint (2020 formulation) safety rating | Greenlens

Raters split

Ingredient safety

A 58-point gap between the two loudest voices.

42Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependent

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100Greenlens Tolerance ScreenIndependent

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All 870 cleaner options, safest first We show the best 12, including the strongest on each axis.

Every rater, every axis

58 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. about this rater →
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Recognized on a safer-ingredients list: US EPA Safer Choice recognizes 70% of ingredients as safer choices — a marker, never a score.

Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction

raters agree

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Coverage & match quality

5 ratings · 2 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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Ingredient safety1.0×

Environmentalno rating

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Labor1.0×

Packagingno rating

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0 means ignored. Higher = more weight in your composite.

Data availability

Robust10 of 10 characterized

Our sources have reference data on all 10 listed ingredients.

Worth a look (2)

COCAMIDOPROPYL BETAINEcommon irritantantistatic · cleansing · hair conditioningraters disagree
Strong contact sensitizerflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
FLAVOR

No flags in our sources (8)

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.

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).
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".