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Bath & Body Works Black Cherry Merlot Gentle & Clean Foaming Hand Soap

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Black Cherry Merlot Gentle & Clean Foaming Hand Soap — 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 40/100 · 22 ingredients analyzed

Driven by Parfum — Caredermis curated dermatological review

Risk categories found

Allergy risk2 ingredients · max 7/10Irritation3 ingredients · max 5/10Environmental impact1 ingredient · max 3/10

Flagged ingredients (6)

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

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.

Severity 4/10Editorial
Sensitive skin: Use with cautionEczema-prone: High caution
  • Irritation:A strong 'sulfate-free' cleanser that can be as stripping as sulfates.

A common 'sulfate-free' marketing substitute that cleans — and can strip — just as aggressively as the sulfates it replaces.

Phenoxyethanol

preservative

Severity 3/10
Babies & kids: Use with caution
  • Irritation:Occasional stinging and irritation, mostly around eyes and on damaged skin.
EU CLP Eye Dam. 1 ↗

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.

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.

PEG-10Regulatory dataCIR: data insufficient

No concerns found (10)

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

Recognized ingredients (3)

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.

  • Disodium Laureth Sulfosuccinate· cleansing, foaming, surfactant - cleansi…
  • Cocamidopropyl Hydroxysultaine· antistatic, cleansing, hair conditioning…
  • Hydroxyacetophenone· antioxidant

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.

  • Water (Aqua
  • Eau)
  • Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter Extract

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.

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Full ingredient list (as analyzed)

Water (Aqua, Eau), Disodium Laureth Sulfosuccinate, Cocamidopropyl Hydroxysultaine, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Propanediol, Sodium Cocoyl Glycinate, Fragrance (Parfum), PEG-7 Glyceryl Cocoate, Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate, Phenoxyethanol, Hydroxyacetophenone, Caprylyl Glycol, PEG-10, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Disodium EDTA, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter Extract, Tocopheryl Acetate, BHT, Citric Acid, Sodium Hydroxide, Benzyl Benzoate

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