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The one rule

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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Lip Balm

Lip BalmGTIN 20683184

Your composite

62OUT OF 100Fair

range 50–90

38▲▼ split
Safety
—
Eco
85
Labor
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Pkg

Why this score

80-point split

15

Scan

95

Precautionary

25

Tolerance

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Flagged

4 ingredients

What's flagged →

Raters split

Ingredient safety

A 80-point gap between the two loudest voices.

15Greenlens Ingredient ScanIndependent
vs
95Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependent
050100
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Cleaner options

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Every rater, every axis

Ingredient safety

Split · 80 pts apart
  • Greenlens Ingredient ScanIndependentunverified match
    15
  • IARC MonographsGovernmentunverified match
    82
  • Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependentunverified match
    95
  • ANSES Endocrine DisruptorsGovernmentunverified match
    65
  • Greenlens Tolerance ScreenIndependentunverified match
    25
  • Health Canada Ingredient HotlistGovernmentunverified match
    85

Lowest 15 · highest 95 · gap 80

Also screened — no listing found

  • US NTP Report on Carcinogens
  • ECHA SVHC Candidate List
  • EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI)
  • California Proposition 65

Environmental

    Also screened — no listing found

    • EU Microplastics Restriction

    Labor

    • Cruelty-Free CertificationNonprofitunverified match
      85

    Coverage & match quality

    7 ratings · 2 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 Ingredient Scan15 on 0–100→15
    • IARC Monographs82 on 0–100→82
    • Greenlens Precautionary Screen95 on 0–100→95
    • ANSES Endocrine Disruptors65 on 0–100→65
    • Greenlens Tolerance Screen25 on 0–100→25
    • Health Canada Ingredient Hotlist85 on 0–100→85
    Average of 15 · 82 · 95 · 65 · 25 · 85pillar38

    Raters split here, so this 38 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

    15/100

    Flagged 3 of 26 ingredients: 1 prohibited, 1 restricted, 1 of concern. Score capped: a prohibited (banned) substance is present.

    Penalties alone would give 23, but a prohibited substance is present, so the score is capped at 15 — a genuine hazard isn’t diluted away by a long ingredient list.

    • Fragrance / Parfum (undisclosed)Common transparency/sensitization concern (not a regulatory ban)−12
    • 6 -Chloro-2-(6-chloro-4-methyl-3-oxobenzo[b]thien-2(3H)-ylidene)-4-methylbenzo[b]thiophene-3(2H)-one (VAT Red 1; CI 73360) when used as a substance in hair dye productsEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex II (prohibited)−55
    • TITANIUM DIOXIDEEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III (restricted)−10

    Starts at 100; 23 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 80 points apart. See what each one flags, and what it costs.

    All three lenses →

    Weighted by what you care about

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    Environmentalno rating

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

    1.0×
    Packagingno rating

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

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

    Flagged ingredients

    • Fragrance / Parfum (undisclosed)3 positions →
    • Citric Acid4 positions →
    • 6 -Chloro-2-(6-chloro-4-methyl-3-oxobenzo[b]thien-2(3H)-ylidene)-4-methylbenzo[b]thiophene-3(2H)-one (VAT Red 1; CI 73360) when used as a substance in hair dye products3 positions →
    • Titanium Dioxide5 positions →

    Ingredients, decoded

    Data availability

    Robust·23 of 26 characterized

    Our sources have reference data on 23 of 26 listed ingredients; 3 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
    Ricinus Communis Seed Oil→perfumingfragranceskin conditioningperfumingfragranceskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    Caprylic→—No flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    Capric Triglyceride→—No flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    C18 36 Acid Triglyceride→emollientskin conditioningemollientskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
    Candelilla Cera→film formingemollientfilm formingemollientNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
    Glyceryl Ricinoleate→emollientemollientNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
    Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate→emollienthair conditioningskin conditioningemollienthair conditioningskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
    Steary! Beeswax→—Not in our sourcesNo data
    Behenyl Beeswax→skin conditioningviscosity controllingskin conditioningviscosity controllingNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
    Polyglyceryl 3 Diisostearate→surfactant - emulsifyingsurfactant - emulsifyingNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
    Mica→colorantanticakingopacifyingcolorantanticakingopacifyingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    Tocopheryl Acetate→antioxidantskin conditioningantioxidantskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    Orbignya Oleifera Seed Oil→emollientemollientNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil→emollienthair conditioningskin conditioningemollienthair conditioningskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    Persea Gratissima Oil→skin conditioningskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    Panthenol→antistatichair conditioningskin conditioningantistatichair conditioningskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    water→antiplaqueskin conditioningsolventantiplaqueskin conditioningsolventNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    Parfum→perfumingfragranceperfumingfragrance4/10Transparency concern· flagged by 1 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
    Bisabolol→fragrancesoothingskin conditioningfragrancesoothingskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    Farmesol→—Not in our sourcesNo data
    Tocopherol→fragranceantioxidantskin conditioningfragranceantioxidantskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    Hydrogenated Palm Glycerides Citrate→emollientskin conditioningemollientskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    Citric Acid→fragrancechelatingbufferingfragrancechelatingbuffering4/10Health Canada Hotlist — restricted· flagged by 1 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
    CI 73360→colorantcolorant8/10EU-prohibited· flagged by 2 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
    CI 77891→colorantcolorant8/10ANSES CMR-listed· flagged by 5 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
    2 DE 50259 Pulheim→—Not in our sourcesNo data