Bath & Body Works
Anti Bacterial Hand Gel, Pocketbac Apricot + Apple (2018 formulation)
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Ingredient safety
A 69-point gap between the two loudest voices.
25Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependent
vs94Greenlens Tolerance ScreenIndependent
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Ingredient safety
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Also screened, nothing found: ECHA SVHC Candidate List · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI)
Recognized on a safer-ingredients list: US EPA Safer Choice recognizes 57% of ingredients as safer choices — a marker, never a score.
Environmental
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Coverage & match quality
9 ratings · 3 of 4 axes
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Ingredients, decoded
Data availability
Robust23 of 23 characterized
Our sources have reference data on all 23 listed ingredients.
Worth a look (5)
Carcinogen-linkedflagged by 5 of 9 lists →
ANSES endocrine candidateflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
Undisclosed fragrance blendflagged by 2 of 9 lists →
EU microplastics-restrictedflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
IARC possible carcinogen (Group 2B)flagged by 1 of 9 lists →
No flags in our sources (18)
- WATER
- ISOPROPYL ALCOHOLcommonly drying
- LACTOSE
- AMINOMETHYL PROPANOL
- ISOPROPYL MYRISTATEcomedogenic in testing
- CELLULOSE
- CITRUS AURANTIUM DULCIS PEEL OILfragrance material
- HYDROXYETHYL UREA
- WHEAT AMINO ACIDS
- TOCOPHERYL ACETATE
- HYDROXYPROPYL METHYLCELLULOSE
- GLYCERINhumectant
- CITRUS RETICULATA PEEL OIL
- HONEY EXTRACT
- ELAEIS GUINEENSIS EXTRACT
- COCOS NUCIFERA FRUIT EXTRACT
- OLEA EUROPAEA FRUIT EXTRACT
- ULTRAMARINES
What these ingredient tags mean (5)
These describe what an ingredient is, not whether it is a problem. The stance marks above are the ratings; these are not.
commonly dryingISOPROPYL ALCOHOL
- ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL: A fast-evaporating solvent with a drying finish, common in toners and hand products. International Chemical Safety Card ICSC 0554, Isopropyl alcohol, prepared by an international group of experts for the ILO and WHO: "Repeated or prolonged contact with skin may cause dryness and cracking." It describes a stronger exposure than a cosmetic formula.
comedogenic in testingISOPROPYL MYRISTATE
- ISOPROPYL MYRISTATE: A light emollient, and the ester the rabbit-ear literature names first. 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.
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.
retinoidRETINYL PALMITATE
- RETINYL PALMITATE: A gentler vitamin A ester that the skin converts to retinol. SCCS Opinion on Vitamin A (Retinol, Retinyl Acetate, Retinyl Palmitate), SCCS/1576/16, which assesses retinyl palmitate by name; EU Regulation (EC) 1223/2009 Annex III entry 376 covers it in the same group as retinol.
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".