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Retinol Acetate
Avoid topical retinoids during pregnancy — vitamin A teratogenicity.
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Swisse Ultiboost Hair Nutrition For Men Soft Capsules 60 pack
Is Swisse Ultiboost Hair Nutrition For Men Soft Capsules 60 pack low tox? Our scanner flagged 1 ingredient (1 in the avoid tier) on its published label, screened against our 237 source-cited chemical rules.
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1 ingredient flagged
What we flagged
Full ingredients (from label)
EACH SOFT CAPSULE CONTAINS:Saw Palmetto (Serenoa repens extract 20 mg) equiv. dry fruit 200 mg (min.) standardised to contain fatty acids 9 mg; Vitamin A (retinol acetate) 112.5 micrograms/RE; Biotin 1.3 mg; Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) 6.25 mg; Vitamin D3 (colecalciferol) 12.5 micrograms; Nicotinamide 8 mg; Copper (from copper gluconate) 212.5 micrograms; Iodine (from potassium iodide) 149 micrograms; Manganese (from manganese amino acid chelate) 700 micrograms; Selenium (from selenomethionine) 27.5 micrograms; Silica (as colloidal anhydrous silica) 26.77 mg; Zinc (from zinc amino acid chelate) 7.5 mg; Soya Oil 50 mg; Sunflower Oil 50 mg.
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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