TOP 20 BRANDS OF CONCERN

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
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• What not to buy
• What you can do

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• 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 180 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 Clairol Procter & Gamble 283 products 329 8.4 No
2 Superior Preference L'Oréal 213 products 532 7.8 No
3 Banana Boat Playtex Products, Inc. 81 products 192 7.0 No
4 Essie Essie Cosmetics 59 products 49 6.9 No
5 Garnier L'Oréal 218 products 348 6.9 No
6 Matrix L'Oréal 45 products 240 6.6 No
7 Lierac ALES Group USA 48 products 309 6.6 No
8 John Frieda Kao Brands Company 64 products 260 6.4 No
9 NARS NARS Cosmetics 186 products 228 6.3 No
10 L'Oréal L'Oréal 772 products 771 6.3 No
11 Sally Hansen Del Laboratories, Inc. 135 products 519 6.1 No
12 Fresh Fresh 61 products 398 6.1 No
13 Bliss BlissWorld, LLC 65 products 488 6.1 No
14 Coppertone Schering-Plough 54 products 124 6.0 No
15 Bumble and Bumble Estée Lauder 45 products 285 6.0 No
16 AHAVA Dead Sea Laboratories Ltd. 83 products 237 6.0 No
17 Mistral Mistral, LLC 48 products 150 5.9 No
18 Milani New Milani Group, Inc., The 137 products 175 5.9 No
19 Olay Procter & Gamble 192 products 382 5.9 No
20 Nivea Beiersdorf 93 products 268 5.9 No

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