The Body Shop
Body butter shea
Body Butter50mltypically $12–30GTIN 5028197194024
Cleaner pick · Safest moisturize we have rated
Africology Skincare & Spa
Bio Therapy Body Lotion+44 on ingredient safety
250ml · 78 ZAR · 31.20 ZAR/100 ml
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Ingredient safety
A 52-point gap between the two loudest voices.
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Ingredient safety
52 pts apartA government authority. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
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Also screened, nothing found: ECHA SVHC Candidate List · California Proposition 65 · IARC Monographs · US NTP Report on Carcinogens
Environmental
Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction
Labor
raters agreeRun by a nonprofit. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. This rates The Body Shop as a company and applies to everything they make, not this product alone. Checked this week. about this rater →
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Coverage & match quality
8 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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- Leaping Bunny — audited cruelty-free — counts toward labor
- PETA cruelty-free — audited cruelty-free — counts toward labor
Ingredients, decoded
Data availability
Robust22 of 23 characterized
Our sources have reference data on 22 of 23 listed ingredients; 1 is uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill.
Worth a look (8)
ANSES endocrine candidateflagged by 3 of 9 lists
Undisclosed fragrance blendflagged by 2 of 9 lists
EU harmonised skin sensitizerflagged by 2 of 9 lists
ANSES endocrine candidateflagged by 2 of 9 lists
Mild sensitizer for someflagged by 1 of 9 lists
Health Canada Hotlist — restrictedflagged by 1 of 9 lists
EU-regulated fragrance allergenflagged by 1 of 9 lists
EU-restricted (with limits)flagged by 2 of 9 lists
No flags in our sources (14)
- Aqua
- Butyrospermum Parkii Butter/Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter
- Cetearyl Alcohol
- Theobroma Cacao Seed Butter/Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter
- Glycerinhumectant
- Cetearyl Glucoside
- Triethyl Citrate
- Orbignya Oleifera Seed Oil
- Dimethiconerich occlusive
- Oryza Sativa Bran Wax/Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Wax
- Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate
- Caprylyl Glycol
- Xanthan Gum
- Tocopherol
No data in our sources (1)
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.
fragrance materialLinalool, Coumarin, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Limonene
- Linalool: A floral fragrance component named separately on the label. EU Regulation (EC) 1223/2009, Annex III entry 84: a fragrance substance whose presence must be indicated in the list of ingredients above 0,001% in leave-on and 0,01% in rinse-off products, because of established contact-allergy risk.
- Coumarin: A sweet hay-scented fragrance component named separately on the label. EU Regulation (EC) 1223/2009, Annex III entry 77: a fragrance substance whose presence must be indicated in the list of ingredients above 0,001% in leave-on and 0,01% in rinse-off products, because of established contact-allergy risk.
- Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone: A powdery violet fragrance component named separately on the label. EU Regulation (EC) 1223/2009, Annex III entry 90: a fragrance substance whose presence must be indicated in the list of ingredients above 0,001% in leave-on and 0,01% in rinse-off products, because of established contact-allergy risk.
- Limonene: A citrus-smelling fragrance component named separately on the label; the one name covers three related isomers. EU Regulation (EC) 1223/2009, Annex III entry 88: a fragrance substance whose presence must be indicated in the list of ingredients above 0,001% in leave-on and 0,01% in rinse-off products, because of established contact-allergy risk. That entry carries transition footnote (37): stock that does not comply, lawfully placed on the Union market before the 31 July 2026 cut-off, may still be made available until 31 July 2028. It is marked on the racemic dl-limonene/Dipentene line and the (S)-(l-limonene) line, but NOT the (R)-p-mentha-1,8-diene (d-limonene) line, CAS 5989-27-5, whose duty was already running as entry 88 before Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/1545 and so needed no transition. All three isomers are declared under the single glossary name "Limonene", so that name on a label does not identify which of them is present.
undeclared fragrance blendParfum/Fragrance
- Parfum/Fragrance: 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.
rich occlusiveDimethicone
- Dimethicone: A silicone that forms a film on the surface of the skin without an oily feel. FDA OTC skin protectant monograph, 21 CFR 347.10(g), lists dimethicone as a skin protectant at 1 to 30%.
humectantGlycerin
- 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".