EltaMD
UV Shield Face Sunscreen, SPF 45
Sun Care
Cleaner pick · Safest sunscreen we have rated
Iunik Global
Centella Calming Daily Sunscreen+30 on ingredient safety
$24
Ingredient safetyRaters agree
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Labor
A 58-point gap between the two loudest voices.
30Cruelty-Free CertificationNonprofit
vs88Open Beauty Facts CertificationsNonprofit
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Ingredient safety
45 pts apartA government authority. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
Independent — not funded by the brands it rates. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
Independent — not funded by the brands it rates. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
A government authority. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
Independent — not funded by the brands it rates. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
A government authority. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
Also screened, nothing found: US NTP Report on Carcinogens · ECHA SVHC Candidate List · California Proposition 65 · IARC Monographs
Environmental
Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction
Labor
58 pts apartRun by a nonprofit. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. This rates EltaMD as a company and applies to everything they make, not this product alone. Checked this week. about this rater →
Run by a nonprofit. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
Coverage & match quality
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
Robust18 of 19 characterized
Our sources have reference data on 18 of 19 listed ingredients; 1 is uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill.
Worth a look (4)
Endocrine-activeflagged by 2 of 9 lists →
EU harmonised skin sensitizerflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
Mild sensitizer for someflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
Health Canada Hotlist — restrictedflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
No flags in our sources (14)
- Zinc oxidesoothing
- Purified Water
- Isopropyl Palmitatecomedogenic in testing
- Cetearyl Alcohol
- Polysorbate 60
- Oleth-3 Phosphate
- Cetearyl Glucoside
- Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer
- Polyisobutene
- Polyether-1
- Butylene Glycol
- PEG-7 Trimethylolpropane Coconut Ether
- Tocopheryl Acetate
- Triethoxycaprylylsilane
No data in our sources (1)
Not a verdict — our authorities simply have no reference for these.
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.
comedogenic in testingIsopropyl Palmitate
- Isopropyl Palmitate: A light emollient named among the pore-clogging materials in the rabbit-ear assay. 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.
soothingZinc oxide
- Zinc oxide: A mineral UV filter that the FDA also recognises as a skin protectant. FDA OTC skin protectant monograph, 21 CFR 347.10(u), lists zinc oxide as a skin-protectant active at 1 to 25%. Its labelled indication is 21 CFR 347.50(b)(3), "dries the oozing and weeping of poison: ivy, oak, sumac". The monograph does not give it the "minor skin irritation and itching" wording.
Where this came from
Cruelty-free status recorded from eltamd.com ↗
Researched facts on Greenlens always carry the page that stated them — nothing is inferred from a model's memory.