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Enthaarungscreme
Balea

Enthaarungscreme

enthaarungscreme125mlGTIN 4066447380439
Cold Wax Hair Sensitive Skin Formula

Cleaner pick · Safest hair removal we have rated

Parissa

Cold Wax Hair Sensitive Skin Formula

+46 on ingredient safety

Ingredient safetyRaters agree
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Your composite

59OUT OF 100Fair

range 53–73

54▲▼ split
Safety
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Eco
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Labor
64
Pkg

Why this score

40-point split

58

Scan

42

Precautionary

82

Tolerance

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4 ingredients

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Ingredient safety

A 40-point gap between the two loudest voices.

42Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependent
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82IARC MonographsGovernment
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Ingredient safety

40 pts apart
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✓Also screened, nothing found: Health Canada Ingredient Hotlist · ECHA SVHC Candidate List · EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI) · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · California Proposition 65

✓Recognized on a safer-ingredients list: US EPA Safer Choice recognizes 53% of ingredients as safer choices — a marker, never a score.

Environmental

    ✓Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction

    Packaging

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    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.

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    Environmentalno rating

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

    Laborno rating

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

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

    What we know about the packaging

    Partly identified·1 of 2 identified

    1 of 2 packaging components is a named material; Plastic (unspecified) is recorded only in general terms, so that part of the score is a stand-in.

    • Recorded only as “plastic” — no resin code. It could be PET (#1) (widely recyclable) or PVC (#3) (hard to recycle); nothing on record says which, so it counts as 46 out of 100, the middle of that range.

    This says how precisely the packaging is described, not how good it is — a fully identified material can still be a bad one.

    Ingredients, decoded

    Data availability

    Robust·13 of 15 characterized

    Our sources have reference data on 13 of 15 listed ingredients; 2 are uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill.

    Worth a look (4)

    • CI 778918/10colorantraters disagree

      ANSES CMR-listed · flagged by 5 of 9 lists →

    • PARFUM6/10undeclared fragrance blendperfuming · fragranceraters disagree

      Undisclosed fragrance blend · flagged by 2 of 9 lists →

    • POTASSIUM THIOGLYCOLATE4/10depilatory · hair waving or straighteningraters disagree

      EU-restricted (with limits) · flagged by 2 of 9 lists →

    • CALCIUM HYDROXIDE4/10bufferingraters disagree

      EU-restricted (with limits) · flagged by 2 of 9 lists →

    ✓No flags in our sources (9)

    • AQUA
    • CETEARYL ALCOHOL
    • UREAhumectant
    • ISOPROPYL MYRISTATEcomedogenic in testing
    • GLYCERINhumectant
    • SERICA EXTRACT
    • NELUMBO NUCIFERA FLOWER EXTRACT
    • HELIANTHUS ANNUS SEED OIL
    • PROPYLENE GLYCOLcommon irritant

    No data in our sources (2)

    • BUTYROSPERUM PARKII BUTTER EXTRACT
    • SODIUM CETARYL SULFATE

    Not a verdict — our authorities simply have no reference for these.

    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.
    • common irritantPROPYLENE GLYCOL

      • PROPYLENE GLYCOL: A solvent that shows up in patch-test clinics, more often as irritation than as allergy. American Contact Dermatitis Society, Allergen of the Year 2018 (Jacob SE, Scheman A, McGowan MA, Dermatitis 2018;29(1):3-5).
    • undeclared fragrance blendPARFUM

      • PARFUM: 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.
    • humectantUREA, GLYCERIN

      • UREA: A humectant the skin already makes; at higher levels it also softens thickened skin. StatPearls, "Moisturizers", NCBI Bookshelf NBK545171, updated 12 February 2024: "Urea is a component of NMF. The addition of urea to moisturizers helps with the absorption of water into the stratum corneum." The FDA label for prescription-strength urea calls it keratolytic and states that its mechanism of action is not yet known.
      • 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".