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We never blend a score that hides who disagrees. Funding model travels with every rating. Weights are computed at read time and never stored.

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Catalog/Head&shoulders/Classic Clean Shampoo
Classic Clean Shampoo
Head&shoulders

Classic Clean Shampoo

Shampoo700mlGTIN 0056100020561

Your composite

49OUT OF 100Poor

range 45–59

70▲▼ split
Safety
—
Eco
30
Labor
46
Pkg

Why this score

40-point split

76

Scan

60

Precautionary

100

Tolerance

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Cleaner options

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Flagged

5 ingredients

What's flagged →

Raters split

Ingredient safety

A 40-point gap between the two loudest voices.

60Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependent
vs
100Greenlens Tolerance ScreenIndependent
050100
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Cleaner options

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Same category, ranked by ingredient safety, never by affiliate payout.

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Every rater, every axis

Ingredient safety

Split · 40 pts apart
  • Greenlens Tolerance ScreenIndependentunverified match
    100
  • Greenlens Ingredient ScanIndependentunverified match
    76
  • Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependentunverified match
    60
  • EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI)Governmentunverified match
    90
  • Health Canada Ingredient HotlistGovernmentunverified match
    70

Lowest 60 · highest 100 · gap 40

Also screened — no listing found

  • US NTP Report on Carcinogens
  • ECHA SVHC Candidate List
  • IARC Monographs
  • California Proposition 65
  • ANSES Endocrine Disruptors

Environmental

    Also screened — no listing found

    • EU Microplastics Restriction

    Labor

    • Cruelty-Free CertificationNonprofitunverified match
      30

    Packaging

    • Greenlens Packaging ScanIndependentunverified match
      46

    Coverage & match quality

    7 ratings · 3 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.

    no black box

    How this score is built

    We don't rate products ourselves. We collect what each public rater already says, put every scale on common ground, and keep the disagreements visible instead of averaging them away.

    1. 1

      Collect each rater's own score

      Every source keeps its native verdict for this product. We never invent a score for an axis a source didn't measure.

    2. 2

      Normalize to 0–100, higher = better

      Raters can use different scales and directions: some where a low number means safe, some where a high one does. We map them all onto one 0–100 axis and flip the ones that run backwards so the numbers are finally comparable.

    3. 3

      Average per axis, but keep the spread

      Scores on the same axis become one representative number (their mean). When raters split by 20+ points we flag it and keep every rater's number. A disagreement is never blended into silence.

    4. 4

      Your weights make the overall

      The ring is the weighted average of the four pillars using your weights. It's computed fresh every time and never stored, so there's no hidden “objective” default.

    worked example · Ingredient safety

    • Greenlens Tolerance Screen100 on 0–100→100
    • Greenlens Ingredient Scan76 on 0–100→76
    • Greenlens Precautionary Screen60 on 0–100→60
    • EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI)90 on 0–100→90
    • Health Canada Ingredient Hotlist70 on 0–100→70
    Average of 100 · 76 · 60 · 90 · 70pillar70

    Raters split here, so this 70 is a midpoint, not a consensus. The spread stays on the “every rater” list above.

    Why the safety score

    Greenlens Ingredient Scan

    Independent · EU regulatory reference

    76/100

    Flagged 2 of 17 ingredients: 2 of concern.

    • Sodium Lauryl SulfateCommon transparency/sensitization concern (not a regulatory ban)−12
    • Fragrance / Parfum (undisclosed)Common transparency/sensitization concern (not a regulatory ban)−12

    Starts at 100; 15 other ingredients carried no recognized regulated hazard. Absence of a flag means no regulated hazard was recognized — not proof of safety. This is one lens; see where raters disagree above.

    Why this score

    Every ingredient, under all three lenses

    The Scan is one opinion. The strict and lenient lenses read the same list and land 40 points apart. See what each one flags, and what it costs.

    All three lenses →

    Weighted by what you care about

    Tune your weights

    composite recomputes live

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    Environmentalno rating

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

    1.0×
    1.0×
    0 means ignored. Higher = more weight in your composite.

    Flagged ingredients

    • Sodium Lauryl Sulfate3 positions →
    • Cocamidopropyl Betaine3 positions →
    • Fragrance / Parfum (undisclosed)3 positions →
    • Methylchloroisothiazolinone4 positions →
    • Methylisothiazolinone5 positions →

    Ingredients, decoded

    Data availability

    Robust·15 of 17 characterized

    Our sources have reference data on 15 of 17 listed ingredients; 2 are uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill.

    Every listed ingredient: its function, where our safety lists land, and whether our sources have data on it.
    IngredientWhat it doesSafetyData
    Water→antiplaqueskin conditioningsolventantiplaqueskin conditioningsolventNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    sodium lauryl sulfate→cleansingdenaturantfoamingcleansingdenaturantfoaming4/10Transparency concern· flagged by 1 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
    sodium laureth sulfate→cleansingfoamingsurfactant - cleansingcleansingfoamingsurfactant - cleansingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    glycol distearate→emollientopacifyingsurfactant - emulsifyingemollientopacifyingsurfactant - emulsifyingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    zinc carbonate→opacifyingopacifyingNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
    sodium chloride→fragranceoral carebulkingfragranceoral carebulkingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    sodium xylenesulfonate→surfactant - hydrotropesurfactant - hydrotropeNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    cocamidopropyl betaine→antistaticcleansinghair conditioningantistaticcleansinghair conditioning6/10Strong contact sensitizer· flagged by 1 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
    fragrance→—4/10Transparency concern· flagged by 1 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
    dimethicone→emollientantifoamingskin conditioningemollientantifoamingskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    sodium benzoate→preservativefragranceanticorrosivepreservativefragranceanticorrosiveNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    guar hydroxypropyltrimonium chloride→film formingantistaticskin conditioningfilm formingantistaticskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
    magnesium carbonate hydroxide→bindingbufferingbulkingbindingbufferingbulkingNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
    methylchloroisothiazolinone→preservativepreservative6/10Strong contact sensitizer· flagged by 2 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
    methylisothiazolinone→preservativepreservative7/10Strong contact sensitizer· flagged by 3 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
    blue 1→—Not in our sourcesNo data
    red 33→—Not in our sourcesNo data