MDSolarSciences
Solar Stick SPF 40
sun$24 MSRP
Every rater, every axis
Ingredient safety
raters agreeIndependent — not funded by the brands it rates. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
Independent — not funded by the brands it rates. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
Independent — not funded by the brands it rates. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
Environmental
A government authority. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
Labor
Run by a nonprofit. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. This rates MDSolarSciences as a company and applies to everything they make, not this product alone. Checked this week. about this rater →
Packaging
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Coverage & match quality
6 ratings · 4 of 4 axes
- Some ratings rest on an automatic match that has not been human-reviewed.
Weighted by what you care about
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0 means ignored. Higher = more weight in your composite.
What we know about the packaging
Unidentified0 of 1 identified
Nobody recorded what this pack is actually made of beyond “plastic”, so the packaging score is a stand-in for the middle of that range — not a reading of this container.
- Recorded only as “plastic” — no resin code. It could be PET (#1) (widely recyclable) or PVC (#3) (hard to recycle); nothing on record says which, so it counts as 46 out of 100, the middle of that range.
This says how precisely the packaging is described, not how good it is — a fully identified material can still be a bad one.
How we know the packaging
Read from the product photo, not declared by the maker — treat this score as weaker.
The container looks like this, rather than the maker saying so. A photo also cannot show the resin code moulded into the base, so every plastic container reads as “plastic, unspecified” — the cautious end of the plastics range, not a finding about this particular pack.
Ingredients, decoded
Data availability
Good19 of 23 characterized
Our sources have reference data on 19 of 23 listed ingredients; 4 are uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill.
Worth a look (1)
EU microplastics-restrictedflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
No flags in our sources (18)
- Dimethiconerich occlusive
- Butyloctyl Salicylate
- Petrolatumrich occlusive
- Butyrospermum Parkii Butter
- C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate
- Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
- Methyl Dihydroabietate
- Acrylates/Ethylhexyl Acrylate/Dimethicone Methacrylate Copolymer
- Octyldodecanol
- Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate
- Tocopherol
- Behenyl Olivate
- Aluminum Hydroxide
- Stearic Acid
- Sorbitan Sesquioleate
- Glyceryl Isostearate
- Polyhydroxystearic Acid
- Benzylidene Dimethoxydimethylindanone
No data in our sources (4)
Not a verdict — our authorities simply have no reference for these.
What these ingredient tags mean (1)
These describe what an ingredient is, not whether it is a problem. The stance marks above are the ratings; these are not.
rich occlusiveDimethicone, Petrolatum
- Dimethicone: A silicone that forms a film on the surface of the skin without an oily feel. FDA OTC skin protectant monograph, 21 CFR 347.10(g), lists dimethicone as a skin protectant at 1 to 30%.
- Petrolatum: A barrier that sits on the surface of the skin, which is also why it feels heavy. FDA OTC skin protectant monograph, 21 CFR 347.10(m) and (r), lists petrolatum and white petrolatum as skin protectants at 30 to 100%.
Where this came from
Cruelty-free status recorded from leapingbunny.org ↗
Researched facts on Greenlens always carry the page that stated them — nothing is inferred from a model's memory.