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• What not to buy
• What you can do

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IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS
• 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 278 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 Colorsilk Revlon Consumer Products Corporation 60 products 119 8.3 No
2 Dark & Lovely L'Oréal 69 products 228 8.2 No
3 Superior Preference L'Oréal 211 products 497 8.1 No
4 Just For Men Combe Inc. 55 products 54 7.9 No
5 Ion Color Brilliance Ion Professional Products, Inc. 45 products 49 7.6 No
6 Herbatint Bioforce Of America, Ltd. 43 products 46 7.4 No
7 Back to Basics Graham Webb International 56 products 279 7.4 No
8 Clairol Procter & Gamble 933 products 688 7.3 No
9 Hugo Boss Procter & Gamble 56 products 94 7.2 No
10 Ultima II Revlon Consumer Products Corporation 56 products 386 7.1 No
11 Redken L'Oréal 91 products 327 7.1 No
12 Biotherm L'Oréal 103 products 409 7.1 No
13 Chanel Chanel 41 products 325 7.0 No
14 Vitabath Esscentual Brands 45 products 169 7.0 No
15 Sebastian Procter & Gamble 95 products 391 7.0 No
16 Garnier L'Oréal 385 products 374 6.9 No
17 Clarins Clarins of Paris 55 products 457 6.9 No
18 Calvin Klein Coty, Inc. 99 products 261 6.9 No
19 Victoria's Secret Victoria's Secret 87 products 416 6.7 No
20 St. Ives Alberto-Culver 110 products 374 6.7 No

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