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• What not to buy
• What you can do

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• Compact for Safe Cosmetics Signers
• Safety in the hands of the cosmetics industry
• Exposures add up

Skin Deep's safety assessment ratings provide a measure of potential health concerns linked to ingredients used in popular health and beauty brands. The brands listed below contain ingredients with the average highest levels of concern according to our rating system, from among the 287 brands with at least 40 products in Skin Deep's database. (For details on safety assessment rating methodology, please see About Skin Deep.)

 

Rank Brand Company Product
in the
Databse		 Unique
Ingredients
Used		 Average Score Compact
Signer?
1 Victoria's Secret Victoria's Secret 93 products 443 10.0 No
2 Hugo Boss Procter & Gamble 60 products 95 9.6 No
3 Colorsilk Revlon Consumer Products Corporation 59 products 119 9.1 No
4 Dark & Lovely L'Oréal 69 products 228 9.0 No
5 Marc Anthony Marc Anthony 43 products 134 8.5 No
6 Clairol Procter & Gamble 954 products 689 8.5 No
7 Estée Lauder Estée Lauder 296 products 1035 8.3 No
8 Back to Basics Graham Webb International 61 products 286 8.2 No
9 Superior Preference L'Oréal 221 products 501 8.1 No
10 Avon Avon Products, Inc. 708 products 1253 8.0 No
11 Herbatint Bioforce Of America, Ltd. 43 products 46 7.9 No
12 Just For Men Combe Inc. 56 products 54 7.9 No
13 Nexxus Alberto-Culver 46 products 247 7.7 No
14 Exuviance NeoStrata 53 products 244 7.6 No
15 Redken L'Oréal 95 products 327 7.5 No
16 Sebastian Procter & Gamble 106 products 406 7.4 No
17 Wella Procter & Gamble 156 products 262 7.3 No
18 Rimmel London Coty, Inc. 65 products 273 7.3 No
19 Matrix L'Oréal 142 products 383 7.3 No
20 Lierac ALES Group USA 85 products 360 7.3 No

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