Colgate
Plaque Release Toothpaste Total Fragrant Mint
Toothpaste95gGTIN 6920354835926
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Mineral Toothpaste Flavorless+50 on ingredient safety
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Ingredient safety
A 55-point gap between the two loudest voices.
35Greenlens Ingredient ScanIndependent
vs90EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI)Government
050100
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Ingredient safety
55 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: ANSES Endocrine Disruptors · ECHA SVHC Candidate List · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · California Proposition 65 · IARC Monographs
Environmental
Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction
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Run by a nonprofit. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. This rates Colgate as a company and applies to everything they make, not this product alone. Checked this week. about this rater →
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6 ratings · 2 of 4 axes
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Ingredients, decoded
Data availability
Robust18 of 19 characterized
Our sources have reference data on 18 of 19 listed ingredients; 1 is uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill.
Worth a look (8)
Undisclosed fragrance blendflagged by 2 of 9 lists →
Strong contact sensitizerflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
EU harmonised skin sensitizerflagged by 2 of 9 lists →
EU-restricted (with limits)flagged by 2 of 9 lists →
EU-restricted (with limits)flagged by 3 of 9 lists →
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No flags in our sources (10)
No data in our sources (1)
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What these ingredient tags mean (4)
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common irritantcocamidopropyl betaine
- cocamidopropyl betaine: A mild cleansing agent, but a recurring patch-test finding, usually traced to leftovers from how it is made. American Contact Dermatitis Society, Allergen of the Year 2004 (Fowler JF Jr, Dermatitis 2004;15(1):3-4).
fragrance materialbenzyl alcohol
- benzyl alcohol: Used both as a fragrance component and as a preservative; the EU names it either way. EU Regulation (EC) 1223/2009, Annex III entry 45: 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 (38), which is footnote (37) plus a condition: stock that does not comply may still be made available until 31 July 2028 only "provided that they comply with the restrictions applicable on 15 August 2023", and only if it was lawfully placed on the Union market before the 31 July 2026 cut-off. Entry 45 covers its non-preservative use; it is separately an allowed preservative at Annex V entry 34.
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".
soothingzinc oxide
- zinc oxide: A mineral UV filter that the FDA also recognises as a skin protectant. FDA OTC skin protectant monograph, 21 CFR 347.10(u), lists zinc oxide as a skin-protectant active at 1 to 25%. Its labelled indication is 21 CFR 347.50(b)(3), "dries the oozing and weeping of poison: ivy, oak, sumac". The monograph does not give it the "minor skin irritation and itching" wording.