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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/Garnier/Pure Active Salicylic Purifying Gentle Cleanser
Garnier

Pure Active Salicylic Purifying Gentle Cleanser

CleanserGTIN 3600542488013

Your composite

66OUT OF 100Fair

range 63–77

77▲▼ split
Safety
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Eco
55
Labor
—
Pkg

Why this score

18-point split

80

Scan

98

Precautionary

88

Tolerance

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Cleaner options

12 found

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Flagged

4 ingredients

What's flagged →

Raters split

Ingredient safety

A 28-point gap between the two loudest voices.

70Health Canada Ingredient HotlistGovernment
vs
98Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependent
050100
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Cleaner options

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Every rater, every axis

Ingredient safety

Split · 28 pts apart
  • Greenlens Ingredient ScanIndependentunverified match
    80
  • Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependentunverified match
    98
  • EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI)Governmentunverified match
    80
  • Greenlens Tolerance ScreenIndependentunverified match
    88
  • Health Canada Ingredient HotlistGovernmentunverified match
    70

Lowest 70 · highest 98 · gap 28

Also screened — no listing found

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

Recognized on a safer-ingredients list

  • US EPA Safer Choice (SCIL) — 58% of ingredients recognized

Environmental

    Also screened — no listing found

    • EU Microplastics Restriction

    Labor

    • Cruelty-Free CertificationNonprofitunverified match
      55

    Coverage & match quality

    6 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 Scan80 on 0–100→80
    • Greenlens Precautionary Screen98 on 0–100→98
    • EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI)80 on 0–100→80
    • Greenlens Tolerance Screen88 on 0–100→88
    • Health Canada Ingredient Hotlist70 on 0–100→70
    Average of 80 · 98 · 80 · 88 · 70pillar77

    Raters split here, so this 77 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

    80/100

    Flagged 3 of 26 ingredients: 2 restricted.

    • POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE / SODIUM HYDROXIDEEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III (restricted)−10
    • Salicylic AcidEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III (restricted)−10

    Starts at 100; 24 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 18 points apart. See what each one flags, and what it costs.

    All three lenses →

    Weighted by what you care about

    Tune your weights

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    Environmentalno rating

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

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    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

    • POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE / SODIUM HYDROXIDE3 positions →
    • citric acid4 positions →
    • Salicylic Acid5 positions →
    • Phenoxyethanol3 positions →

    Ingredients, decoded

    Data availability

    Good·21 of 26 characterized

    Our sources have reference data on 21 of 26 listed ingredients; 5 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
    glycerin→perfuminghumectantdenaturantperfuminghumectantdenaturantNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    sodium to know methyl cocoyl taurate→—Not in our sourcesNo data
    coco-betaine→antistaticcleansinghair conditioningantistaticcleansinghair conditioningNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    sodium cocoyl isethionate→cleansinghair conditioningsurfactant - cleansingcleansinghair conditioningsurfactant - cleansingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    sodium chloride→fragranceoral carebulkingfragranceoral carebulkingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    niacinamide→smoothingsmoothingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    glyceryl stearate→emollientsurfactant - emulsifyingemollientsurfactant - emulsifyingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    peg-100 stearate→surfactant - cleansingsurfactant - cleansingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    ppg-5-ceteth-20→surfactant - cleansingsurfactant - emulsifyingsurfactant - cleansingsurfactant - emulsifyingNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
    peg-55 [=] #ehe propylene glycol oleate→—Not in our sourcesNo data
    sodium citrate→fragrancechelatingbufferingfragrancechelatingbufferingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    sodium es _ hyaluronate→—Not in our sourcesNo data
    sodium hydroxide→bufferingdenaturantbufferingdenaturant4/10EU-restricted (with limits)· flagged by 2 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
    2-oleamido-1,3 - fr octadecanediol→—Not in our sourcesNo data
    kaolin→colorantabrasiveabsorbentcolorantabrasiveabsorbentNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    coconut acid→emollientcleansingsurfactant - cleansingemollientcleansingsurfactant - cleansingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    propylene glycol→humectantskin conditioningsolventhumectantskin conditioningsolventNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    caprylyl glycol→emollientdeodoranthair conditioningemollientdeodoranthair conditioningNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    citric acid→fragrancechelatingbufferingfragrancechelatingbuffering4/10Health Canada Hotlist — restricted· flagged by 1 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
    polyquatemium-53→—Not in our sourcesNo data
    acrylates/c10-30 alkyl acrylate crosspolymer→film formingemulsion stabilisingviscosity controllingfilm formingemulsion stabilisingviscosity controllingNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
    sodium [= benzoate→preservativefragranceanticorrosivepreservativefragranceanticorrosiveNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
    salicylic acid→preservativefragranceanti-seborrheicpreservativefragranceanti-seborrheic6/10EU harmonised CMR (cat. 2)· flagged by 4 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
    phenoxyethanol→preservativeantimicrobialpreservativeantimicrobial4/10Mild sensitizer for some· flagged by 1 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
    chlorphenesin→preservativeantimicrobialpreservativeantimicrobialNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued

    Where this came from

    Product identity (name, brand, category) verified against superdrug.com ↗

    Researched facts on Greenlens always carry the page that stated them — nothing is inferred from a model's memory.