Black Honey Facial Cleanser safety rating

Black Honey Facial Cleanser safety rating | Greenlens

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Ingredient safety

A 40-point gap between the two loudest voices.

60Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependent

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100Greenlens Tolerance ScreenIndependent

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Ingredient safety

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Also screened, nothing found: ANSES Endocrine Disruptors · ECHA SVHC Candidate List · California Proposition 65 · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI) · Health Canada Ingredient Hotlist · IARC Monographs

Recognized on a safer-ingredients list: US EPA Safer Choice recognizes 55% of ingredients as safer choices — a marker, never a score.

Environmental

Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction

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3 ratings · 1 of 4 axes

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Environmentalno rating

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Laborno rating

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Packagingno rating

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Ingredients, decoded

Data availability

Robust10 of 11 characterized

Our sources have reference data on 10 of 11 listed ingredients; 1 is uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill.

Worth a look (2)

Cocamidopropyl Betainecommon irritantantistatic · cleansing · hair conditioningraters disagree
Strong contact sensitizerflagged by 1 of 9 lists →

No flags in our sources (8)

No data in our sources (1)

Limonene D

Not a verdict — our authorities simply have no reference for these.

What these ingredient tags mean (2)

These describe what an ingredient is, not whether it is a problem. The stance marks above are the ratings; these are not.

common irritantCocamidopropyl Betaine, Melaleuca Alternifolia Leaf Oil
- Cocamidopropyl Betaine: A mild cleansing agent, but a recurring patch-test finding, usually traced to leftovers from how it is made. American Contact Dermatitis Society, Allergen of the Year 2004 (Fowler JF Jr, Dermatitis 2004;15(1):3-4).
- Melaleuca Alternifolia Leaf Oil: An essential oil whose oxidation products carry its sensitising potential; the EU assesses it as a moderate skin sensitiser. SCCS Scientific Opinion on Tea Tree Oil (CAS/EC 68647-73-4 / 285-377-1), SCCS/1681/25, adopted 30 October 2025, which concludes it is a moderate skin sensitiser. It does not set maximum levels of its own: it assesses the concentrations the applicant defended, and finds no concern at 2,0% in shampoo, 1,0% in shower gel, 1,0% in face wash and 0,1% in face cream, for oil conforming to ISO 4730:2017, in adults, in non-sprayable formats. It draws on the earlier SCCP opinions SCCP/1155/08 and SCCP/0843/04 and incorporates their data by reference; it says nothing about their status.
humectantGlycerin
- Glycerin: A humectant, and one of the two ingredients a comparison of moisturiser components found made a significant difference to skin hydration. FDA OTC skin protectant monograph, 21 CFR 347.10(h), lists glycerin as a skin protectant at 20 to 45%. On the humectant half: Jeong CB, Han JY, Cho JC, Suh KD, Nam GW, "Analysis of electrical property changes of skin by oil-in-water emulsion components", Int J Cosmet Sci 2013;35(4):402-410, DOI 10.1111/ics.12059, PMID 23621673, found that "glycerine and urea showed significant skin hydration effects compared with other humectants".