The Ordinary
Ascorbyl Glucoside Solution 12%
uncategorizedtypically under $12
Cleaner pick · Safest serums & essences we have rated
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30ml · 569 ZAR · 1896.67 ZAR/100 ml
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Ingredient safety
A 35-point gap between the two loudest voices.
65ANSES Endocrine DisruptorsGovernment
vs100Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependent
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Ingredient safety
35 pts apartA government authority. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
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Also screened, nothing found: Health Canada Ingredient Hotlist · California Proposition 65 · EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI) · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · IARC Monographs · ECHA SVHC Candidate List
Recognized on a safer-ingredients list: US EPA Safer Choice recognizes 50% 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. This rates The Ordinary as a company and applies to everything they make, not this product alone. Checked this week. about this rater →
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5 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
Robust12 of 12 characterized
Our sources have reference data on all 12 listed ingredients.
Worth a look (2)
ANSES CMR-listedflagged by 3 of 9 lists →
EU-restricted (with limits)flagged by 2 of 9 lists →
No flags in our sources (10)