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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/St Ives/Fresh Skin Apricot Scrub
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St Ives

Fresh Skin Apricot Scrub

Face ScrubGTIN 5012254050125

Your composite

65OUT OF 100Fair

range 58–78

50▲▼ split
Safety
90
Eco
55
Labor
—
Pkg

Why this score

28-point split

65

Scan

60

Precautionary

88

Tolerance

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Cleaner options

12 found

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Flagged

6 ingredients

What's flagged →

Raters split

Ingredient safety

A 60-point gap between the two loudest voices.

30ANSES Endocrine DisruptorsGovernment
vs
90EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI)Government
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 · 60 pts apart
  • California Safe Cosmetics ProgramGovernmentweak match
    75
  • Greenlens Ingredient ScanIndependentunverified match
    65
  • IARC MonographsGovernmentunverified match
    82
  • Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependentunverified match
    60
  • ANSES Endocrine DisruptorsGovernmentunverified match
    30
  • EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI)Governmentunverified match
    90
  • Greenlens Tolerance ScreenIndependentunverified match
    88

Lowest 30 · highest 90 · gap 60

Also screened — no listing found

  • US NTP Report on Carcinogens
  • ECHA SVHC Candidate List
  • Health Canada Ingredient Hotlist
  • California Proposition 65

Recognized on a safer-ingredients list

  • US EPA Safer Choice (SCIL) — 57% of ingredients recognized

Environmental

  • EU Microplastics RestrictionGovernmentunverified match
    90

Labor

  • Cruelty-Free CertificationNonprofitunverified match
    55

Coverage & match quality

9 ratings · 3 of 4 axes

  • At least one rating was auto-linked to this product on a low-confidence match, so it may describe a different size or variant.
  • Fewer raters reach smaller-brand products, so a missing rating is not a clean bill of health, only a gap.

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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

  • California Safe Cosmetics Program75 on 0–100→75
  • Greenlens Ingredient Scan65 on 0–100→65
  • IARC Monographs82 on 0–100→82
  • Greenlens Precautionary Screen60 on 0–100→60
  • ANSES Endocrine Disruptors30 on 0–100→30
  • EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI)90 on 0–100→90
  • Greenlens Tolerance Screen88 on 0–100→88
Average of 75 · 65 · 82 · 60 · 30 · 90 · 88pillar50

Raters split here, so this 50 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

65/100

Flagged 4 of 28 ingredients: 2 restricted, 1 of concern, 1 regulated allergen.

  • TITANIUM DIOXIDEEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III (restricted)−10
  • Trialkylamines, trialkanolamines and their saltsEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III (restricted)−10
  • Fragrance / Parfum (undisclosed)Common transparency/sensitization concern (not a regulatory ban)−12
  • Benzyl AlcoholEU Cosmetics Regulation Annex III / Reg. (EU) 2023/1545 (labelled fragrance allergen)−3

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 28 points apart. See what each one flags, and what it costs.

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Weighted by what you care about

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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

  • Cocamidopropyl Betaine3 positions →
  • Titanium Dioxide5 positions →
  • Carbomer4 positions →
  • Trialkylamines, trialkanolamines and their salts4 positions →
  • Fragrance / Parfum (undisclosed)3 positions →
  • Benzyl Alcohol4 positions →

Ingredients, decoded

Data availability

Good·22 of 28 characterized

Our sources have reference data on 22 of 28 listed ingredients; 6 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
Juglans Regia→—Not in our sourcesNo data
Shell Powder→—Not in our sourcesNo data
Glyceryl Stearate→emollientsurfactant - emulsifyingemollientsurfactant - emulsifyingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Glycerin→perfuminghumectantdenaturantperfuminghumectantdenaturantNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Zea Mays→—Not in our sourcesNo data
Kernel Meal→—Not in our sourcesNo data
Cetearyl Alcohol→emollientemulsion stabilisingopacifyingemollientemulsion stabilisingopacifyingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Cetyl Alcohol→fragranceemollientemulsion stabilisingfragranceemollientemulsion stabilisingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate→cleansingfoamingsurfactant - cleansingcleansingfoamingsurfactant - cleansingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Cocamidopropyl Betaine→antistaticcleansinghair conditioningantistaticcleansinghair conditioning6/10Strong contact sensitizer· flagged by 1 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
Peg-100 Stearate→surfactant - cleansingsurfactant - cleansingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Cetyl Acetate→fragranceemollientskin conditioningfragranceemollientskin conditioningNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Sodium Chloride→fragranceoral carebulkingfragranceoral carebulkingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Titanium Dioxide→uv filteruv absorbercolorantuv filteruv absorbercolorant8/10ANSES CMR-listed· flagged by 5 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
Polysorbate 60→surfactant - cleansingsurfactant - emulsifyingsurfactant - cleansingsurfactant - emulsifyingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Sodium Sulfate→bulkingviscosity controllingbulkingviscosity controllingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Ceteareth-20→cleansingsurfactant - cleansingsurfactant - emulsifyingcleansingsurfactant - cleansingsurfactant - emulsifyingNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Acetylated Lanolin Alcohol→emollientocclusivehair conditioningemollientocclusivehair conditioningNo flags in our sourcesCosIng-catalogued
Carbomer→emulsion stabilisinggel formingviscosity controllingemulsion stabilisinggel formingviscosity controlling4/10EU microplastics-restricted· flagged by 1 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
Triethanolamine→fragrancebufferingsurfactant - cleansingfragrancebufferingsurfactant - cleansing8/10ANSES CMR-listed· flagged by 3 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
Fragrance→—4/10Transparency concern· flagged by 1 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
Prunus Armeniaca→—Not in our sourcesNo data
Fruit Extract→—Not in our sourcesNo data
Benzyl Alcohol→preservativeperfumingsolventpreservativeperfumingsolvent6/10EU harmonised skin sensitizer· flagged by 2 of 9raters disagreeReferenced
Benzoic Acid→preservativefragranceph adjusterspreservativefragranceph adjustersNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Sorbic Acid→preservativefragrancepreservativefragranceNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized
Sodium Benzoate→preservativefragranceanticorrosivepreservativefragranceanticorrosiveNo flags in our sourcesWell-characterized

Where this came from

Product identity (name, brand, category) verified against thewarehouse.co.nz ↗

Cruelty-free status recorded from crueltyfree.peta.org ↗

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