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Bare Anatomy Anti-Dandruff Shampoo

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Anti-Dandruff Shampoo — ingredient safety report

Every ingredient on the label, checked against published safety data. Profile tags on each card show who should take extra care. Label data from Open Beauty Facts, a community database — formulations change, so verify against your packaging.

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Moderate concern

Contains ingredients worth knowing about. Review the flags below against your skin's needs.

Concern score 59/100 · 33 ingredients analyzed

Driven by Salicylic AcidEU CLP Repr. 2, EU CosIng Annex III (declarable / restricted), EU CLP Eye Dam. 1

Risk categories found

Allergy risk2 ingredients · max 7/10Irritation5 ingredients · max 5/10Environmental impact4 ingredients · max 4/10Cancer concern1 ingredient · max 2/10

Flagged ingredients (11)

Ingredients with a documented concern, from official datasets and our reviewed database.

Salicylic Acid

exfoliant · anti-acne

Severity 4/10
Sensitive skin: Use with cautionDry skin: High cautionPregnancy: Use with cautionBabies & kids: Best avoidedEczema-prone: High caution
  • Irritation:Dryness and peeling at exfoliating concentrations (0.5–2%).

The pore-clearing BHA exfoliant. Not for young children (salicylate absorption), used cautiously in pregnancy at low leave-on concentrations, and drying for compromised barriers.

Parfum

fragrance

Severity 7/10Editorial
Sensitive skin: Best avoidedPregnancy: Use with cautionBabies & kids: Best avoidedEczema-prone: Best avoided
  • Allergy risk:Fragrance is the single most common cause of cosmetic contact allergy.
  • Irritation:Frequent trigger of stinging and redness on reactive skin.
Caredermis curated dermatological review

An umbrella term that can hide dozens of undisclosed scent chemicals. Fragrance is the leading cause of allergic contact dermatitis from cosmetics, and dermatologists routinely advise fragrance-free products for eczema, babies and sensitive skin.

Menthol

cooling agent · fragrance

Severity 4/10Editorial
Sensitive skin: High cautionBabies & kids: Use with cautionEczema-prone: High caution
  • Irritation:Sensory irritant; the cooling feeling signals nerve stimulation, not soothing.

The cooling molecule from mint. Refreshing on healthy skin but a genuine irritant for reactive, broken or infant skin.

Severity 4/10Editorial
Sensitive skin: Use with cautionEczema-prone: Use with caution
  • Allergy risk:Named Allergen of the Year 2004; impurities (amidoamine) drive most reactions.

A mild coconut-derived surfactant in countless 'gentle' cleansers. Most allergy is caused by manufacturing impurities, so quality varies by brand.

Phenoxyethanol

preservative

Severity 3/10
Babies & kids: Use with caution
  • Irritation:Occasional stinging and irritation, mostly around eyes and on damaged skin.

Today's most common preservative, considered safe by the SCCS up to 1%. French authorities advise avoiding it in wipes and diaper-area products for children under 3 as a precaution.

Acrylates Copolymer

film former · thickener

Severity 4/10Editorial
  • Environmental impact:Synthetic polymer counted as a microplastic under the EU restriction when in particle form.

A common film-forming polymer scrutinized under the EU's microplastics restriction; skin safety itself is well established.

Dimethiconol

emollient

Severity 3/10Editorial
  • Environmental impact:Persistent silicone, like dimethicone.

A silicone gum for silky slip; skin-inert with the family's usual environmental-persistence criticism.

Disodium EDTA

chelating agent

Severity 3/10Editorial
  • Environmental impact:Poorly biodegradable; can remobilize heavy metals in waterways.

A metal-binding stabilizer that is safe on skin at the tiny amounts used; its criticism is environmental persistence.

Mica

pigment · pearlescent

Severity 2/10Editorial
  • Environmental impact:Skin-safe; the ingredient's controversy is ethical (mining labor), not toxicological.

The shimmer mineral in highlighters and glowy creams; safe on skin, with sourcing ethics being its real controversy.

Sodium Benzoate

preservative

Severity 2/10Editorial
  • Irritation:Can cause transient, non-allergic flushing/stinging on reactive skin.

A food-grade preservative generally regarded as one of the gentler options; occasional non-immune stinging is its main drawback.

Pore-clogging potential (1)

Ingredients rated likely to clog pores — relevant if your skin is acne-prone. This is a separate indicator and is not part of the safety score.

Indicative Fulton-scale ratings from published dermatology references — not a regulator classification; individual reactions vary.

No concerns found (13)

Ingredients that are unflagged in our reviewed database, reviewed safe by the CIR panel, or on an EU permitted list.

Recognized ingredients (6)

Catalogued in official cosmetic-ingredient inventories (EU CosIng and others) with no safety flag on record. Being recognized isn't a safety guarantee — it means the ingredient is on record but no authority has published a concern.

  • Sodium Lauroyl Methyl Isethionate· cleansing, surfactant - cleansing
  • TEA-Dodecylbenzenesulfonate· cleansing, foaming, surfactant - cleansi…
  • Epilobium Angustifolium Extract· skin conditioning
  • Nasturtium Officinale Extract· perfuming, skin conditioning
  • Biotin· anti-sebum, hair conditioning, skin cond…
  • Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine· antistatic, hair conditioning, surfactan…

Not enough data (3)

Not found in any dataset we hold (often trade-name blends or very niche ingredients), so we can't assess them — this is not a safety judgment either way.

  • Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract
  • Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Leaf Extract
  • Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Milk Protein

This report is informational, not medical advice. Assessments summarize published findings (EU CosIng, IARC, ECHA, CIR, SCCS and others) about ingredients — not clinical testing of this specific product. Exposure, concentration and individual sensitivity all matter. Consult a dermatologist for medical concerns.

Lower-concern hair care

Same category, better ingredient safety score than this product — somewhere to look next if this one raised concerns.

Full ingredient list (as analyzed)

Purified Water, Sodium Lauroyl Methyl Isethionate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Propanediol, Glycerin, Dimethiconol, TEA-Dodecylbenzenesulfonate, Acrylates Copolymer, Perfume, Piroctone Olamine, Salicylic Acid, Epilobium Angustifolium Extract, Panthenol, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Nasturtium Officinale Extract, Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Leaf Extract, Niacin, Biotin, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Menthol, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Milk Protein, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Glycol Stearate, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Mica, Titanium Dioxide, Tin Oxide, PEG-45M, Sodium Chloride, Citric Acid, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Benzoate, Disodium EDTA

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