Burt's Bees
Renewal Firming Eye Cream (2020 formulation)
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Peek Performance Overnight Repair Eye Cream+19 on ingredient safety
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Ingredient safety
A 30-point gap between the two loudest voices.
70Health Canada Ingredient HotlistGovernment
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Also screened, nothing found: EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI) · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · ANSES Endocrine Disruptors · IARC Monographs · ECHA SVHC Candidate List · California Proposition 65
Recognized on a safer-ingredients list: US EPA Safer Choice recognizes 51% of ingredients as safer choices — a marker, never a score.
Environmental
Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction
Labor
raters agreeRun by a nonprofit. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. This rates Burt's Bees as a company and applies to everything they make, not this product alone. Checked this week. about this rater →
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Ingredients, decoded
Data availability
Robust41 of 41 characterized
Our sources have reference data on all 41 listed ingredients.
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Mild sensitizer for someflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
No flags in our sources (38)
- WATER
- CAPRYLIC/CAPRIC TRIGLYCERIDE
- GLYCERINhumectant
- STEARYL ALCOHOL
- CETYL ALCOHOL
- GLYCERYL STEARATE
- BEESWAX
- BAKUCHIOL
- TOCOPHEROL
- BETA VULGARIS ROOT EXTRACT
- CITRULLUS LANATUS FRUIT EXTRACT
- LENS ESCULENTA FRUIT EXTRACT
- PYRUS MALUS FRUIT EXTRACT
- GLYCINE SOJA OIL
- SCUTELLARIA ALPINA FLOWER/LEAF/STEM EXTRACT
- TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE LEAF EXTRACT
- ADANSONIA DIGITATA FRUIT EXTRACT
- HIBISCUS SABDARIFFA FLOWER EXTRACT
- CHLORELLA VULGARIS EXTRACT
- PLANKTON EXTRACT
- PHRAGMITES COMMUNIS EXTRACT
- PORIA COCOS EXTRACT
- STEARIC ACID
- RIBOSE
- XANTHAN GUM
- LECITHIN
- HYDROLYZED CORNSTARCH
- DIPOTASSIUM GLYCYRRHIZATE
- P-ANISIC ACID
- POTASSIUM STEARATE
- LINOLEIC ACIDbarrier lipid
- LINOLENIC ACID
- MAGNESIUM ALUMINUM SILICATE
- SODIUM LACTATE
- SODIUM PCAhumectant
- SODIUM CITRATE
- SODIUM BENZOATE
- POTASSIUM SORBATE
What these ingredient tags mean (3)
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exfoliating acidLACTIC ACID
- LACTIC ACID: An alpha hydroxy acid that loosens surface skin cells; it also makes skin more sun-sensitive while you use it. FDA, "Guidance for Industry: Labeling for Topically Applied Cosmetic Products Containing Alpha Hydroxy Acids as Ingredients" (announced at 70 FR 1721, 10 January 2005; FDA web pages title it "Labeling for Cosmetics Containing Alpha Hydroxy Acids"), which names this acid and recommends the statement "Sunburn Alert: This product contains an alpha hydroxy acid (AHA) that may increase your skin's sensitivity to the sun and particularly the possibility of sunburn."
humectantGLYCERIN, SODIUM PCA
- 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".
- SODIUM PCA: The salt of PCA, one of the water-holding substances the outer layer of skin makes for itself. Dörner C, Steinbinder J, Sachslehner AP, Sukseree S, Eckhart L, "Amino Acid Metabolism of the Skin: Control by Specific Enzymes and Contribution to Protective Functions", Metabolites 2025;15(9):601, DOI 10.3390/metabo15090601, open access, section "Glutamine Is Converted to Pyrrolidone Carboxylic Acid, a Component of the NMF": "pyrrolidone carboxylic acid (PCA), also known as pyroglutamic acid or 5-oxoproline, accumulates in the stratum corneum."
barrier lipidLINOLEIC ACID
- LINOLEIC ACID: An essential fatty acid the skin barrier uses and cannot make for itself. Khnykin D, Miner JH, Jahnsen F, "Role of fatty acid transporters in epidermis", Dermatoendocrinol 2011;3(2):53-61, DOI 10.4161/derm.3.2.14816, open access: "The human body can produce all but two of the fatty acids it needs: linoleic acid (C18:2, n6) and alpha-linolenic acid (C18:3, n3)", and replacing linoleic acid with a non-essential fatty acid "will lead to barrier defects". Feingold and Elias, J Lipid Res 2024: linoleate "is required for the synthesis of a subgroup of acylceramides".