amber
PEG
Manufacturing process can leave 1,4-dioxane (probable carcinogen) and ethylene oxide as contaminants. Look for 'vacuum-stripped' products.
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Clinique Smart Clinical Repair Wrinkle Correcting Eye Cream 15 ml
Is Clinique Smart Clinical Repair Wrinkle Correcting Eye Cream 15 ml low tox? Our scanner flagged 2 ingredients (2 in the caution tier) on its published label, screened against our 237 source-cited chemical rules.
2 caution
2 ingredients flagged
What we flagged
amber
Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate
Synthetic polymer film-former. Microplastic concern (rinse-off products), low-grade monomer-residue concern.
Full ingredients (from label)
en naria digitata extract saccharomyces lysate extract. camellia sinensis leaf extract sigesbeckia orientalis (st. paul's wort) extract-whey protein\lactis protein\ protéine du petit-lait-prunus amygdalus dulcis (sweet almond) seed extract-acetyl hexapeptide-8 acetyl octapeptide-3 palmitoyl tripeptide-1 palmitoyl tetra - peptide-7 palmitoyl hexapeptide-12-phytosteryl/ isostearyl/cetyl/stearyl/behenyl dimer dilinoleate. lactobacillus ferment-sodium hyaluronate tocoph - eryl acetate butylene glycol-cetearyl alcohol caf - feine tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate sucrose acetyl glucosamine dipotassium glycyrrhizate arachidyl glucoside jojoba esters-tridecyl stearate-dipenta - erythrityl hexacaprylate/hexacaprate molasses extract\saccharum officinarum extrait de mélasse. trehalose-ethylhexylglycerin-cholesterol bisabolol. peg-8-beeswaxicera albaicire d'abeille glyceryl acrylate/acrylic acid copolymer-glycine soja (soybean) seed extract-caprylyl glycol-tocopherol-nylon-12 - potassium cetyl phosphate-glyceryl polymethacrylate acrylates/c10-30 alkyl acrylate crosspolymer-am - ▼
How this analysis is generated
Each ingredient on this product's published label is matched against our 237 source-cited chemical rules, each documenting a concern from peer-reviewed research and regulatory sources. Severity tiers:
- Avoid (red) — banned or restricted in the EU, UK or Canada but still legal in the US, IARC-listed, or strong contact-allergen evidence.
- Caution (amber) — regulatory caution, contamination risk, or condition-specific irritant.
- Mild (green) — low concern but commonly avoided in low-tox formulations.
Each flag links to its primary chemical-level source, and each condition pill links to a PubMed-indexed paper that discusses the chemical class in the context of that condition. Every citation is a real peer-reviewed paper — we don't link to Wikipedia or PubMed search pages. Some pairs use a topically-broad paper (e.g. a fragrance-allergen patch-test review) rather than a single-pair study where the literature is thin. The full evidence chain (chemical → mechanism → condition → paper) is one click away.
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