The INKEY List
Starter retinol serum
Serum30mltypically $12–30GTIN 5061087560738
Cleaner pick · Safest serums & essences we have rated
Africology Skincare & Spa
Aloe Ferox Serum+20 on ingredient safety
30ml · 569 ZAR · 1896.67 ZAR/100 ml
Ingredient safetyRaters agree
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Ingredient safety
A 30-point gap between the two loudest voices.
70Health Canada Ingredient HotlistGovernment
vs100Greenlens Tolerance ScreenIndependent
050100
See why, ingredient by ingredientAll 1098 cleaner options, safest first We show the best 12, including the strongest on each axis.
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Ingredient safety
30 pts apartA government authority. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
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Independent — not funded by the brands it rates. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
Independent — not funded by the brands it rates. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
A government authority. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
Also screened, nothing found: ECHA SVHC Candidate List · California Proposition 65 · IARC Monographs · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · ANSES Endocrine Disruptors
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 INKEY List as a company and applies to everything they make, not this product alone. Checked this week. about this rater →
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Packaging
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Coverage & match quality
8 ratings · 3 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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What we know about the packaging
Unidentified0 of 1 identified
Nobody recorded what this pack is actually made of beyond “recycled plastic”, so the packaging score is a stand-in for the middle of that range — not a reading of this container.
- Recorded only as “recycled 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
Robust39 of 43 characterized
Our sources have reference data on 39 of 43 listed ingredients; 4 are uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill.
Worth a look (5)
EU harmonised skin sensitizerflagged by 1 of 9 lists
EU harmonised skin sensitizerflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
Health Canada Hotlist — restrictedflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
Mild sensitizer for someflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
Health Canada Hotlist — restrictedflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
No flags in our sources (34)
- WATER
- GLYCERIN
- DICAPRYLYL CARBONATE
- PROPANEDIOL
- CANDELILLA
- JOJOBA
- GLYCERYL STEARATE
- CETYL ALCOHOL
- CYCLODEXTRIN
- GLYCERYL BEHENATE
- SODIUM ACRYLOYLDIMETHYL TAURATE COPOLYMER
- SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE
- CETEARYL ALCOHOL
- SQUALANE
- PHOSPHOLIPIDS
- XANTHAN GUM
- BISABOLOL
- GLYCINE SOJA OIL
- POLYSORBATE 60
- ETHYLHEXYLGLYCERIN
- SODIUM PHYTATE
- HYDROXYPINACOLONE RETINOATE
- CAPRYLIC
- CAPRIC TRIGLYCERIDE
- GLYCOLIPIDS
- SORBITAN ISOSTEARATE
- POLYSORBATE 80
- GLYCINE SOJA
- SUCROSE LAURATE
- TOCOPHEROL
- ZINGIBER OFFICINALE ROOT EXTRACT
- 1‚2-HEXANEDIOL
- HYDROXYACETOPHENONE
- INULIN LAURYL CARBAMATE
No data in our sources (4)
Not a verdict — our authorities simply have no reference for these.
Where this came from
Cruelty-free status recorded from theinkeylist.com ↗
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