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Glycolic Acid
Exfoliants — can sting and flare rosacea/eczema if barrier is compromised.
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The Ordinary Glycolic Acid 7% Toning Solution (Solução tonificante de ácido glicólico 7%)
Is The Ordinary Glycolic Acid 7% Toning Solution (Solução tonificante de ácido glicólico 7%) low tox? Our scanner flagged 3 ingredients (3 in the caution tier) on its published label, screened against our 237 source-cited chemical rules.
3 caution
3 ingredients flagged
What we flagged
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Triethanolamine
Can react with nitrosating preservatives to form nitrosamines (carcinogenic).
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Sodium Benzoate
Implicated in childhood hyperactivity studies and reported MCAS trigger.
Full ingredients (from label)
Aqua (Water)Glycolic AcidRosa Damascena Flower WaterCentaurea Cyanus Flower WaterAloe Barbadensis Leaf WaterPropanediolGlycerinTriethanolamineAminomethyl PropanolPanax Ginseng Root ExtractTasmannia Lanceolata Fruit/Leaf ExtractAspartic AcidAlanineGlycineSerineValineIsoleucineProlineThreonineHistidinePhenylalanineGlutamic AcidArgininePcaSodium PcaSodium LactateFructoseGlucoseSucroseUreaHexyl NicotinateDextrinCitric AcidPolysorbate 20Gellan GumTrisodium Ethylenediamine DisuccinateSodium ChlorideHexylene GlycolPotassium SorbateSodium Benzoate12-HexanediolCaprylyl Glycol.
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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