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Garnier Brightening serum

Garnier · Serums & Treatments

Brightening serum — 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 58/100 · 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 risk5 ingredients · max 7/10Irritation4 ingredients · max 5/10

Flagged ingredients (10)

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.

Alcohol Denat.

solvent · astringent

Severity 5/10Editorial
Sensitive skin: High cautionDry skin: High cautionBabies & kids: Use with cautionEczema-prone: Best avoided
  • Irritation:Drying and barrier-disrupting in high-alcohol formulas with regular use.

Denatured ethanol gives products a fast-drying, weightless feel, but as a leading ingredient it degrades the skin barrier with repeated use — a poor match for dry, sensitive or eczema-prone skin.

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.

Linalool

fragrance

Severity 5/10
Sensitive skin: Use with cautionEczema-prone: High caution
  • Allergy risk:EU-declarable allergen; oxidized linalool is a common patch-test positive.

A floral scent molecule found in lavender and many essential oils. It oxidizes on air exposure into strongly sensitizing compounds, which is why it must be declared on EU labels.

Chlorphenesin

preservative

Severity 3/10Editorial
Sensitive skin: Use with cautionBabies & kids: Use with caution
  • Irritation:Can irritate sensitive or compromised skin.

A synthetic preservative capped at 0.3% in the EU; generally tolerated but a known occasional irritant.

CI 19140

colorant

Severity 3/10Editorial
  • Allergy risk:Rare hypersensitivity reactions, better documented in food than cosmetics.

Tartrazine yellow dye; approved for cosmetics with rare sensitivity reactions reported.

CITRUS LIMON FRUIT EXTRACT / LEMON FRUIT EXTRACTRegulatory dataAllergy riskEU CosIng Annex III (declarable / restricted)POTASSIUM HYDROXIDERegulatory dataIrritationEU CLP Skin Corr. 1A

No concerns found (14)

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.

  • HYDROXYETHYLPIPERAZINE ETHANE SULFONIC ACID· buffering
  • SODIUM THIOSULFATE· reducing
  • PHENYLETHYL RESORCINOL· antioxidant
  • AMMONIUM POLYACRYLOYLDIMETHYL TAURATE· emulsion stabilising, viscosity controll…
  • TETRASODIUM GLUTAMATE DIACETATE· chelating
  • TRISODIUM ETHYLENEDIAMINE DISUCCINATE· chelating

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.

  • PEG/PPG/POLYBUTYLENE GLYCOL-8/5/3 SODIUM GLYCERIN
  • 2-MERCAPTONICOTINOYL GLYCINE
  • HYALURONATE

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 serums & treatments

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

Full ingredient list (as analyzed)

WATER, GLYCERIN, ALCOHOL DENAT, DIPROPYLENE GLYCOL, BUTYLENE GLYCOL, NIACINAMIDE, PEG/PPG/POLYBUTYLENE GLYCOL-8/5/3 SODIUM GLYCERIN, HYDROXYETHYLPIPERAZINE ETHANE SULFONIC ACID, ISONONYL ISONONANOATE, ASCORBYL GLUCOSIDE, CITRUS LIMON FRUIT EXTRACT / LEMON FRUIT EXTRACT, POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE, 2-MERCAPTONICOTINOYL GLYCINE, HYALURONATE, SODIUM THIOSULFATE, SILICA, ADENOSINE, PHENYLETHYL RESORCINOL, AMMONIUM POLYACRYLOYLDIMETHYL TAURATE, HYDROGENATED LECITHIN, CAPRYLYL GLYCOL, TETRASODIUM GLUTAMATE DIACETATE, TRISODIUM ETHYLENEDIAMINE DISUCCINATE, XANTHAN GUM, TOCOPHERYL ACETATE, SALICYLIC ACID, CHLORPHENESIN, CI 15510 / ORANGE 4, CI 19140/YELLOW 5, LINALOOL, GERANIOL, LIMONENE, PARFUM/FRAGRANCE. (F.I.L. Z70046241/1)

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