Hair Spray, Regular Hold safety rating

Hair Spray, Regular Hold safety rating | Greenlens

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Ingredient safety

A 58-point gap between the two loudest voices.

42Greenlens Precautionary ScreenIndependent

100Greenlens Tolerance ScreenIndependent

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Ingredient safety

58 pts apart

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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

Environmental

Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction

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4 ratings · 2 of 4 axes

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Fewer raters reach smaller-brand products, so a missing rating is not a clean bill of health, only a gap.

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Ingredient safety1.0×

Environmentalno rating

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Labor1.0×

Packagingno rating

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Ingredients, decoded

Data availability

Good10 of 12 characterized

Our sources have reference data on 10 of 12 listed ingredients; 2 are uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill.

Worth a look (1)

Fragranceundeclared fragrance blendperfumingraters disagree
Undisclosed fragrance blendflagged by 2 of 9 lists →

No flags in our sources (9)

No data in our sources (2)

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

What these ingredient tags mean (4)

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

commonly dryingSD Alcohol 40
- SD Alcohol 40: Denatured ethanol: a fast-evaporating solvent that thins a formula and leaves a dry finish. International Chemical Safety Card ICSC 0044, Ethanol (anhydrous), prepared by an international group of experts for the ILO and WHO: "The substance defats the skin, which may cause dryness or cracking." WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care (2009) records depletion of the skin lipid barrier by lipid-dissolving alcohols, and also that "the lipid-dissolving effect of alcohols is inversely related to their concentration". Both describe stronger exposures than a cosmetic formula.
undeclared fragrance blendFragrance
- 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.
humectantPanthenol, Sodium PCA
- Panthenol: A provitamin B5 humectant used in products aimed at irritated and healing skin. On the humectant half: Ferreira VTP, Silva GC, Martin AA, Maia Campos PMBG, "Topical dexpanthenol effects on physiological parameters of the stratum corneum by Confocal Raman Microspectroscopy", Skin Res Technol 2023;29(9):e13317, DOI 10.1111/srt.13317, PMID 37753694, PMCID PMC10504581, open access, Introduction: "As a humectant, it has been shown to retain water more efficiently than other humectants during the last stages of dehydration..." On the soothing half, which that paper does NOT support: Cho YS, Kim HO, Woo SM, Lee DH, "Use of Dexpanthenol for Atopic Dermatitis—Benefits and Recommendations Based on Current Evidence", J Clin Med 2022;11(14):3943, DOI 10.3390/jcm11143943, PMID 35887707, open access, section 3.5: "To facilitate wound healing, dexpanthenol reduces inflammation, and promotes cell proliferation and epithelial remodeling."