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Palmer's

Shea Formula Raw Shea Balm

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27OUT OF 100Horrible

Ingredient safety only

range 15–70

27▲▼ split
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Why this score

27-point split

15

Scan

42

Precautionary

25

Tolerance

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6 ingredients

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Ingredient safety

A 55-point gap between the two loudest voices.

15Greenlens Ingredient ScanIndependent
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70EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI)Government
050100
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Ingredient safety

55 pts apart

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✓Also screened, nothing found: Health Canada Ingredient Hotlist · ECHA SVHC Candidate List · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · California Proposition 65 · IARC Monographs

Environmental

    ✓Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction

    Coverage & match quality

    5 ratings · 1 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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    Environmentalno rating

    No rater covers this axis for this product, so its weight can't move the score.

    Laborno rating

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    Packagingno rating

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

    Ingredients, decoded

    Data availability

    Robust·12 of 13 characterized

    Our sources have reference data on 12 of 13 listed ingredients; 1 is uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill.

    Worth a look (6)

    • Hydroxyisohexyl 3-Cyclohexene Carboxaldehyde10/10fragrance materialperfuming · fragranceraters disagree

      EU-prohibited · flagged by 4 of 9 lists →

    • Benzyl Salicylate7/10fragrance materialuv absorber · perfumingraters disagree

      ANSES endocrine candidate · flagged by 3 of 9 lists →

    • Fragrance6/10undeclared fragrance blendperfumingraters disagree

      Undisclosed fragrance blend · flagged by 2 of 9 lists →

    • Benzyl Alcohol6/10fragrance materialpreservative · perfuming · solventraters disagree

      EU harmonised skin sensitizer · flagged by 2 of 9 lists →

    • Benzyl Benzoate6/10fragrance materialperfuming · antimicrobial · solventraters disagree

      ANSES endocrine candidate · flagged by 2 of 9 lists →

    • Hexyl Cinnamal6/10fragrance materialperfumingraters disagree

      ANSES endocrine candidate · flagged by 2 of 9 lists →

    ✓No flags in our sources (6)

    • Butyrospermum Parkii Butter
    • Canola Oil
    • Glycine Soja Oil
    • Microcrystalline Wax
    • Ozokerite
    • Tocopheryl Acetate

    No data in our sources (1)

    • Theobroma Cocao Seed Butter

    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.

    • fragrance materialBenzyl Alcohol, Benzyl Benzoate, Benzyl Salicylate, Hexyl Cinnamal, Hydroxyisohexyl 3-Cyclohexene Carboxaldehyde

      • Benzyl Alcohol: Used both as a fragrance component and as a preservative; the EU names it either way. EU Regulation (EC) 1223/2009, Annex III entry 45: a fragrance substance whose presence must be indicated in the list of ingredients above 0,001% in leave-on and 0,01% in rinse-off products, because of established contact-allergy risk. That entry carries transition footnote (38), which is footnote (37) plus a condition: stock that does not comply may still be made available until 31 July 2028 only "provided that they comply with the restrictions applicable on 15 August 2023", and only if it was lawfully placed on the Union market before the 31 July 2026 cut-off. Entry 45 covers its non-preservative use; it is separately an allowed preservative at Annex V entry 34.
      • Benzyl Benzoate: A balsamic fragrance component named separately on the label. EU Regulation (EC) 1223/2009, Annex III entry 85: a fragrance substance whose presence must be indicated in the list of ingredients above 0,001% in leave-on and 0,01% in rinse-off products, because of established contact-allergy risk.
      • Benzyl Salicylate: A faintly floral fragrance component named separately on the label. EU Regulation (EC) 1223/2009, Annex III entry 75: a fragrance substance whose presence must be indicated in the list of ingredients above 0,001% in leave-on and 0,01% in rinse-off products, because of established contact-allergy risk. The entry was replaced by Commission Regulation (EU) 2026/909 of 27 April 2026, which caps it per product type from 0,004% in oral products to 4% in fragrance products; under its footnote (**), products not complying may not be placed on the Union market from 1 January 2027, nor made available from 1 July 2028.
      • Hexyl Cinnamal: A jasmine-like fragrance component named separately on the label. EU Regulation (EC) 1223/2009, Annex III entry 87: a fragrance substance whose presence must be indicated in the list of ingredients above 0,001% in leave-on and 0,01% in rinse-off products, because of established contact-allergy risk.
      • Hydroxyisohexyl 3-Cyclohexene Carboxaldehyde: A floral fragrance component the EU no longer permits in cosmetics. It was a declarable fragrance allergen at Annex III entry 79 of EU Regulation (EC) 1223/2009. Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1410 deleted that entry and inserted it at Annex II entry 1380 (HICC, CAS 51414-25-6 and 31906-04-4), prohibiting it in cosmetic products.

    • 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.