L’Occitane
Baume Mains Hand Balm (25% Shea Butter)
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Cleaner pick · Safest hands & feet we have rated
Round Lab
Birch Moisturizing Hand Cream+43 on ingredient safety
$8.50
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Ingredient safety
A 58-point gap between the two loudest voices.
42Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependent
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Ingredient safety
58 pts apartA government authority. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
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Independent — not funded by the brands it rates. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
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Also screened, nothing found: California Proposition 65 · ECHA SVHC Candidate List · ANSES Endocrine Disruptors · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI) · IARC Monographs
Recognized on a safer-ingredients list: US EPA Safer Choice recognizes 65% of ingredients as safer choices — a marker, never a score.
Environmental
Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction
Labor
58 pts apartRun by a nonprofit. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
Run by a nonprofit. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. This rates L’Occitane as a company and applies to everything they make, not this product alone. Checked this week. about this rater →
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6 ratings · 2 of 4 axes
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Ingredients, decoded
Data availability
Robust23 of 23 characterized
Our sources have reference data on all 23 listed ingredients.
Worth a look (2)
Undisclosed fragrance blendflagged by 2 of 9 lists →
Health Canada Hotlist — restrictedflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
No flags in our sources (21)
- aqua/water/eau
- butyrospermum parkii butter
- glycerinhumectant
- pentylene glycol
- tapioca starch
- coco-caprylate/caprate
- cetearyl alcohol
- glyceryl stearate se
- brassica campestris sterols
- sodium pcahumectant
- helianthus annuus seed oil
- hydrogenated rapeseed oil
- cetearyl glucoside
- sodium stearoyl glutamate
- xanthan gum
- sodium gluconate
- glyceryl caprylate
- tocopherol
- beta-glucan
- caprylyl glycol
- caprylic/capric triglyceride
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.
undeclared fragrance blendparfum/fragrance
- parfum/fragrance: A blend the label does not itemize, so what is in it cannot be read from the ingredient list. EU Regulation (EC) 1223/2009 permits the collective term "parfum"; the SCCS Opinion on Fragrance Allergens (SCCS/1459/11) reviews the contact-allergy evidence for the substances it can contain.
humectantglycerin, sodium pca
- 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".
- sodium pca: The salt of PCA, one of the water-holding substances the outer layer of skin makes for itself. Dörner C, Steinbinder J, Sachslehner AP, Sukseree S, Eckhart L, "Amino Acid Metabolism of the Skin: Control by Specific Enzymes and Contribution to Protective Functions", Metabolites 2025;15(9):601, DOI 10.3390/metabo15090601, open access, section "Glutamine Is Converted to Pyrrolidone Carboxylic Acid, a Component of the NMF": "pyrrolidone carboxylic acid (PCA), also known as pyroglutamic acid or 5-oxoproline, accumulates in the stratum corneum."
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Cruelty-free status recorded from crueltyfree.peta.org ↗
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