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Skin Deep's safety assessment ratings provide a measure of potential health concerns linked to ingredients used by personal care product companies. The companies listed below are those using ingredients with the highest average levels of concern according to our rating system, from among the 175 companies with at least 50 products in Skin Deep's database. (For details on safety assessment rating methodology, please see About Skin Deep.)

 

Rank Company Product
in the
Databse
Unique
Ingredients
Used
Average Score Compact
Signer?
1 Graham Webb International 57 products 280 7.5 No
2 Ion Professional Products, Inc. 53 products 127 7.4 No
3 Bioforce Of America, Ltd. 54 products 59 7.2 No
4 Combe Inc. 144 products 259 7.1 No
5 Clarins of Paris 56 products 463 7.1 No
6 Bath & Body Works 56 products 310 6.9 No
7 Victoria's Secret 84 products 413 6.7 No
8 Coty, Inc. 480 products 763 6.7 No
9 Colomer Group 112 products 433 6.7 No
10 Essence of Beauty 50 products 73 6.5 No
11 BABOR 117 products 481 6.5 No
12 pH Beauty Labs 100 products 363 6.4 No
13 NARS Cosmetics 207 products 365 6.4 No
14 L'Occitane 111 products 404 6.4 No
15 Kamins Dermatologics 108 products 260 6.4 No
16 Guerlain SA 246 products 457 6.4 No
17 Dead Sea Laboratories Ltd. 158 products 274 6.4 No
18 L'Oréal 4419 products 2066 6.3 No
19 Elizabeth Arden, Inc. 477 products 904 6.3 No
20 Murad, Inc. 180 products 609 6.2 No

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