I can’t find a product or brand on Skin Deep ®. Whatever the situation, you can always create a preliminary report by typing the ingredients and other package text into our Build Your Own Report tool.

Sometimes you may have the latest formulation, and we may not have rated it yet on Skin Deep ®. Sometimes retailers sell you a company’s old formulation. Why are the ingredients on my product's label different from the ingredients listed here?Ĭosmetics manufacturers continually change formulations. We recommend that consumers buy products with lower hazard ratings and at least “fair” data availability.įor more details on the Skin Deep ® scoring system, see the Understanding Skin Deep ratings page. The lower the data availability, the less we know. Some may rank low for hazards but only because little research has been done. Not all cosmetics chemicals have been thoroughly studied. The rating indicates how much is known – or not known – about an ingredient. The data availability rating – none, limited, fair, good or robust – reflects the scope of ingredient safety data contained on Skin Deep ® and in the open scientific literature. What does “data availability rating” mean? This ensures that the most up-to-date products show up in your search. Products that have not been updated in the past six years will be removed from the database. In other instances, the product manufacturer has not provided updated information for six years. Two possibilities: If EWG was provided an incomplete or inaccurate ingredient list for a product, we removed it because its score would not accurately reflect its hazard level. I can't find a product that used to be in Skin Deep ®. Products that are only available for sale through online third-party retailers, like eBay, are not eligible to be added to the database. We consider products to be available if sold at a brick-and-mortar retailer or online from either a company website or an established storefront on a site such as, through which your products are made and shipped directly to U.S. regulations and be available for sale in the U.S. Are there requirements for products to be added to Skin Deep ®? Send a request to Please keep in mind that we handle many inquiries from companies interested in adding their products to Skin Deep ® we can’t handle every request, but we will do our best to review and incorporate appropriate product information you send. How can I get my products listed on Skin Deep ®? Skin Deep ® provides easy-to-navigate safety ratings for tens of thousands of personal care products. Skin Deep ® combines product ingredient lists with information from more than 60 standard toxicity and regulatory databases. It was launched in 2004 to help people find safer products, with fewer ingredients that are hazardous or that haven’t been thoroughly assessed for safety. EWG’s Skin Deep ® database is an online guide for cosmetics and personal care products.

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