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Hyphen sunscreen

Hyphen · Sunscreens

sunscreen — 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 55/100 · 47 ingredients analyzed

Driven by Titanium DioxideIARC Group 2B, EU CosIng Annex III (declarable / restricted)

Risk categories found

Environmental impact3 ingredients · max 7/10Allergy risk4 ingredients · max 5/10Irritation2 ingredients · max 3/10Cancer concern1 ingredient · max 2/10

Flagged ingredients (8)

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

Octocrylene

uv filter

Severity 5/10Editorial
Sensitive skin: Use with cautionBabies & kids: Use with cautionEczema-prone: High caution
  • Allergy risk:Rising cause of contact and photoallergy, especially in children.
  • Environmental impact:Accumulates in aquatic life; degrades into benzophenone over time.

A stabilizing UV filter that can degrade into benzophenone as products age, and an increasingly reported allergen — replace old tubes of octocrylene sunscreens.

Kojic Acid

skin brightener

Severity 4/10
Sensitive skin: High cautionEczema-prone: High caution
  • Allergy risk:Documented contact sensitizer with regular use.
  • Irritation:Stinging on sensitive skin, especially above 1%.

A fungal-derived brightener capped at 1% in the EU; effective for dark spots but a fairly common sensitizer with sustained use.

Severity 7/10Editorial
Pregnancy: Use with cautionBabies & kids: Use with caution
  • Environmental impact:Toxic to coral; banned in Hawaii alongside oxybenzone.
Caredermis curated dermatological review

A UVB filter under regulatory re-review for hormonal effects and banned in some reef regions; steadily being replaced by newer filters in modern sunscreens.

Severity 4/10Editorial
Sensitive skin: Use with caution
  • Allergy risk:Degradation products can cause photoallergy when unstabilized.

The main UVA filter in US sunscreens. Safe when properly stabilized, but it breaks down in sunlight into potentially sensitizing fragments in poorly formulated products.

Cyclopentasiloxane

emollient · solvent

Severity 6/10Editorial
  • Environmental impact:Classified vPvB (very persistent, very bioaccumulative); EU restricts it in cosmetics from 2027.
Caredermis curated dermatological review

A volatile silicone giving that silky slip, now being phased down in the EU because it persists and accumulates in aquatic ecosystems.

Ethylhexylglycerin

preservative booster · skin conditioning

Severity 2/10
  • Irritation:Documented occasional contact allergy and eye irritation.

A preservative booster often paired with phenoxyethanol; low-risk overall with rare reports of contact allergy.

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.

No concerns found (21)

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.

  • Hydrogenated Polyisobutene· skin conditioning, skin conditioning - e…
  • Propylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate· skin conditioning - emollient
  • Methyl Methacrylate Crosspolymer· film forming
  • Phytosphingosine· hair conditioning, skin conditioning
  • Glucosylceramide· skin conditioning
  • Pentaerythrityl Tetra-di-t-butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate· antioxidant

Not enough data (12)

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.

  • Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Extract
  • C12-15 Alky Benzoate
  • Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acrylo Dimethyl Taurate Copolymer
  • Terminalia Ferdinandian (Kakadu Plum) Extract
  • Cerami EOP
  • Tetraacetylphytosphingosin Cholesterol
  • Tocotrienol (Vitamin E)
  • Sorbitan Olivate Saccharide Isomerate
  • Glyceryl Monostearate
  • Ceteary cohol
  • 2-Hexanediol
  • henoxyethanol

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 sunscreens

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

Full ingredient list (as analyzed)

Aqua (water), Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Extract, Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate, Avobenzone, Butylene Glycol, Cyclopentasiloxane, Octocrylene, Glycerin, Niacinamide, Hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Diisopropyl Adipate, Propylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate, Methyl Methacrylate Crosspolymer, C12-15 Alky Benzoate, Diisopropyl Sebacate, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acrylo Dimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Cetearyl Olivate, Terminalia Ferdinandian (Kakadu Plum) Extract, Kojic acid, Ceramide NP, Ceramide AP, Cerami EOP, Phytosphingosine, Glucosylceramide, Tetraacetylphytosphingosin Cholesterol, Hyaluronic Acid, Tocotrienol (Vitamin E), Sorbitan Olivate Saccharide Isomerate, Glyceryl Stearate, PEG-100 Stearate, Polysorbate 20, Pentaerythrityl Tetra-di-t-butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate, Sodium Citrate, Sodium Gluconate, Citric Acid, Titanium Dioxide, Zinc Oxide, Stearic acid, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Glyceryl Monostearate, Ceteary cohol, Hydrogenated Polydecene, 2-Hexanediol, Xanthan Gum, henoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, CI19140

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