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Glowing Complexion Serum
Uncommon Beauty

Glowing Complexion Serum

Face
Aloe Ferox Serum

Cleaner pick · Safest serums & essences we have rated

Africology Skincare & Spa

Aloe Ferox Serum

+6 on ingredient safety

30ml · 569 ZAR · 1896.67 ZAR/100 ml

Ingredient safetyRaters agree
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Your composite

91OUT OF 100Excellent

range 89–93

94
Safety
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Eco
88
Labor
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Pkg

Why this score

8-point split

90

Scan

98

Precautionary

94

Tolerance

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Ingredient safety

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✓Also screened, nothing found: US NTP Report on Carcinogens · ECHA SVHC Candidate List · ANSES Endocrine Disruptors · Health Canada Ingredient Hotlist · California Proposition 65 · EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI) · IARC Monographs

✓Recognized on a safer-ingredients list: US EPA Safer Choice recognizes 65% of ingredients as safer choices — a marker, never a score.

Environmental

    ✓Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction

    Labor

    • Run by a nonprofit. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →

    Coverage & match quality

    4 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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    Environmentalno rating

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

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    Packagingno rating

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

    Ingredients, decoded

    Data availability

    Robust·20 of 20 characterized

    Our sources have reference data on all 20 listed ingredients.

    Worth a look (2)

    • Phenoxyethanol4/10preservative · antimicrobialraters disagree

      Mild sensitizer for some · flagged by 1 of 9 lists →

    • Sodium Hydroxide4/10buffering · denaturantraters disagree

      EU-restricted (with limits) · flagged by 2 of 9 lists →

    ✓No flags in our sources (18)

    • Water
    • Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
    • Coco-Caprylate/Caprate
    • Propanediol
    • Squalane
    • Glycerinhumectant
    • Limnanthes Alba Seed Oil
    • Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate
    • Niacinamidesoothing
    • Pentylene Glycol
    • Castor Oil/Ipdi Copolymer
    • Microcrystalline Cellulose
    • Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
    • Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate
    • Tocopherol
    • Cellulose Gum
    • Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil
    • Helianthus Annuus Leaf/Stem Extract
    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.

    • 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".
    • soothingNiacinamide

      • Niacinamide: A vitamin B3 form that supports the skin barrier and has anti-inflammatory activity; it turns up in products aimed at acne, rosacea and eczema. Camillo L, Zavattaro E, Savoia P, "Nicotinamide: A Multifaceted Molecule in Skin Health and Beyond", Medicina (Kaunas) 2025;61(2):254, DOI 10.3390/medicina61020254, PMID 40005371, open access: it "is extensively used in ... the treatment of dermatological conditions such as blistering diseases, atopic dermatitis, rosacea, and acne vulgaris", and contributes to reducing inflammation. On the acne evidence specifically: Liu H, Yu H, Xia J, Liu L, Liu GJ, Sang H, Peinemann F, "Topical azelaic acid, salicylic acid, nicotinamide, sulphur, zinc and fruit acid (alpha-hydroxy acid) for acne", Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2020;5:CD011368, DOI 10.1002/14651858.CD011368.pub2, PMID 32356369, records "low-quality evidence" for every nicotinamide comparison it could pool, and none of its four nicotinamide studies measured the physician global assessment at all.