Why Soothing Oatmeal Conditioner scores the way it does | Greenlens
Dermaveen · Soothing Oatmeal Conditioner
Why this score
Three independent Greenlens lenses read the same 21 ingredients and land 40 points apart. That gap is not an error. Each lens asks a different question, and this page shows every answer, ingredient by ingredient, blended into nothing.
How well-studied are these ingredients?
Data coverage · Robust
18/21
Our sources have reference data on 18 of 21 listed ingredients; 3 are uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill. Our sources can only speak to ingredients they recognize — either flagged by an authority or known to be a common, well-characterized ingredient. An uncharacterized ingredient is a gap in our data, not a clean bill of health: a quiet safety scan over ingredients we can’t place is a weaker signal than one over ingredients we can.
Uncharacterized in our data: Avena Sativa, Kernel Flour, Aloe Barbadensis.
Three lenses, one ingredient list
Greenlens Ingredient Scan
Independent
15Horrible
The regulatory baseline. Follows EU cosmetic law: prohibited and restricted ingredients cost points, and allergen labelling is capped so it cannot tank a score on its own.
Flagged 3 of 21 ingredients: 1 prohibited, 1 restricted. Score capped: a prohibited (banned) substance is present.
Greenlens Precautionary Screen
Independent
55Fair
The strict lens. Flags any ingredient with a listed hazard trait (SIN List, IARC, Prop 65), even when regulators still permit it.
Flagged 3 of 21 ingredients on hazard grounds: 1 endocrine-active, 1 persistent/bioaccumulative, 1 mild sensitizer. Score capped: an endocrine-active ingredient is present.
Greenlens Tolerance Screen
Independent
25Horrible
The lenient lens. Trusts dose and regulation: permitted ingredients kept within their legal caps are tolerated, and only genuinely prohibited substances take a big hit.
Flagged 2 of 21 ingredients: 1 prohibited, 1 restricted (within-limit). Score capped: a prohibited (banned) substance cannot be tolerated.
These lenses disagree. A split of 40 points crosses our disagreement threshold (20). We keep every verdict and never average them; the table below is where the split comes from.
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.
The overall ring on the product page is the weighted mean of the four pillars using your weights, computed fresh on every visit and never stored. How each lens's reference lists were built, penalty by penalty, is on the methodology page.
Phenoxyethanol→EU Cosmetics Regulation Annex V (preservative, with limits)
noted, 0permitted
−2mild_sensitizer
noted, 0permitted
−N points subtracted by that lens, labelled with its concern · noted, 0 seen but tolerated under that philosophy · · not on that lens's reference lists. Open an ingredient for the full reasoning and every rater's position. 17 other ingredients matched no list at all.