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Health Essential Moisturizing Lotion
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Iunik Global
Beta Glucan Daily Moisture Cream+55 on ingredient safety
$17
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Ingredient safety
A 58-point gap between the two loudest voices.
30ANSES Endocrine DisruptorsGovernment
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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 · ECHA SVHC Candidate List
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Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction
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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 (4)
ANSES CMR-listedflagged by 3 of 9 lists →
ANSES CMR-listedflagged by 5 of 9 lists →
Undisclosed fragrance blendflagged by 2 of 9 lists →
Mild sensitizer for someflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
No flags in our sources (19)
- WATER
- GLYCERINhumectant
- STEARIC ACID
- ISOPROPYL MYRISTATEcomedogenic in testing
- MINERAL OILrich occlusive
- GLYCERYL STEARATE
- GLYCOL STEARATE
- DIMETHICONErich occlusive
- PEG-100 STEARATE
- PETROLATUMrich occlusive
- CETYL ALCOHOL
- TAPIOCA STARCH
- MAGNESIUM ALUMINUM SILICATE
- HYDROXYACETOPHENONE
- ACRYLATES/C10-30 ALKYL ACRYLATE CROSSPOLYMER
- DISODIUM EDTA
- XANTHAN GUM
- STEARAMIDE AMP
- AVENA SATIVA STRAW EXTRACT
What these ingredient tags mean (4)
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 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.
rich occlusiveMINERAL OIL, DIMETHICONE, PETROLATUM
- MINERAL OIL: A refined oil that sits on the surface of the skin; it has a heavy finish. FDA OTC skin protectant monograph, 21 CFR 347.10(l): "Mineral oil, 50 to 100 percent; 30 to 35 percent in combination with colloidal oatmeal in accordance with 347.20(a)(4)."
- DIMETHICONE: A silicone that forms a film on the surface of the skin without an oily feel. FDA OTC skin protectant monograph, 21 CFR 347.10(g), lists dimethicone as a skin protectant at 1 to 30%.
- PETROLATUM: A barrier that sits on the surface of the skin, which is also why it feels heavy. FDA OTC skin protectant monograph, 21 CFR 347.10(m) and (r), lists petrolatum and white petrolatum as skin protectants at 30 to 100%.
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".