TOP 20 BRANDS OF CONCERN

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• Safety in the hands of the cosmetics industry
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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 271 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 61 products 119 8.3 No
2 Dark & Lovely L'Oréal 69 products 228 8.2 No
3 Superior Preference L'Oréal 210 products 495 8.1 No
4 Just For Men Combe Inc. 53 products 54 7.9 No
5 Ion Color Brilliance Ion Professional Products, Inc. 45 products 49 7.6 No
6 Back to Basics Graham Webb International 56 products 278 7.5 No
7 Herbatint Bioforce Of America, Ltd. 43 products 46 7.4 No
8 Clairol Procter & Gamble 931 products 687 7.4 No
9 Vitabath Esscentual Brands 46 products 169 7.2 No
10 Ultima II Revlon Consumer Products Corporation 56 products 385 7.2 No
11 Redken L'Oréal 91 products 326 7.2 No
12 Hugo Boss Procter & Gamble 56 products 94 7.2 No
13 Biotherm L'Oréal 102 products 404 7.2 No
14 Sebastian Procter & Gamble 95 products 391 7.1 No
15 Giorgio Armani L'Oréal 42 products 107 7.1 No
16 Clarins Clarins of Paris 55 products 457 7.1 No
17 St. Ives Alberto-Culver 111 products 376 7.0 No
18 Garnier L'Oréal 383 products 374 7.0 No
19 Exuviance NeoStrata 53 products 243 6.9 No
20 Calvin Klein Coty, Inc. 100 products 261 6.9 No

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