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Pro Microneedling Gel Mask+25 on ingredient safety
$40
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Ingredient safety
A 29-point gap between the two loudest voices.
65ANSES Endocrine DisruptorsGovernment
vs94Greenlens Tolerance ScreenIndependent
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Also screened, nothing found: California Proposition 65 · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · ECHA SVHC Candidate List · EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI)
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
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Ingredients, decoded
Data availability
Robust23 of 24 characterized
Our sources have reference data on 23 of 24 listed ingredients; 1 is uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill.
Worth a look (3)
ANSES CMR-listedflagged by 5 of 9 lists →
Mild sensitizer for someflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
Health Canada Hotlist — restrictedflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
No flags in our sources (20)
- PROPANEDIOL
- KAOLIN
- SODIUM COCOYL GLUTAMATE
- PYRUS MALUS FRUIT EXTRACT
- HECTORITE
- GLYCERINhumectant
- XANTHAN GUM
- CAMELLIA SINENSIS LEAF POWDER
- COFFEA ARABICA SEED OILfragrance material
- CAPRYLYL GLYCOL
- MICA
- HEXYLENE GLYCOL
- ETHYLHEXYLGLYCERIN
- SODIUM PCAhumectant
- IRON OXIDE
- SODIUM PHYTATE
- PERSEA GRATISSIMA OIL
- HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL
- TIN OXIDE
- TOCOPHEROL
No data in our sources (1)
Not a verdict — our authorities simply have no reference for these.
What these ingredient tags mean (1)
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humectantGLYCERIN, SODIUM PCA
- 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".
- SODIUM PCA: The salt of PCA, one of the water-holding substances the outer layer of skin makes for itself. Dörner C, Steinbinder J, Sachslehner AP, Sukseree S, Eckhart L, "Amino Acid Metabolism of the Skin: Control by Specific Enzymes and Contribution to Protective Functions", Metabolites 2025;15(9):601, DOI 10.3390/metabo15090601, open access, section "Glutamine Is Converted to Pyrrolidone Carboxylic Acid, a Component of the NMF": "pyrrolidone carboxylic acid (PCA), also known as pyroglutamic acid or 5-oxoproline, accumulates in the stratum corneum."