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l-oreal ambre solaire sensitive expert+ (50+)

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ambre solaire sensitive expert+ (50+) — 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 · 25 ingredients analyzed

Driven by Alcohol Denat. (Caredermis editorial assessment)

Risk categories found

Irritation4 ingredients · max 5/10Allergy risk3 ingredients · max 5/10Environmental impact3 ingredients · max 5/10

Flagged ingredients (9)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Triethanolamine

ph adjuster · emulsifier

Severity 3/10Editorial
Sensitive skin: Use with caution
  • Irritation:Irritating at higher concentrations or in leave-on products.
  • Allergy risk:Occasional contact allergen.

A pH adjuster that is safe in itself but should not be combined with formaldehyde releasers or bronopol, which can convert it to nitrosamines.

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.

Potassium Sorbate

preservative

Severity 2/10
  • Irritation:Occasional transient stinging or redness on sensitive skin.

A mild food-grade preservative usually paired with sodium benzoate; well tolerated by most skin types.

Dimethicone

emollient · occlusive

Severity 3/10Editorial
  • Environmental impact:Not biodegradable; accumulates in the environment via wash-off.

The workhorse silicone — inert and non-sensitizing on skin (even FDA-approved as a skin protectant), with persistence in the environment as its main criticism.

terephthalylidene dicamphor sulfonic acidRegulatory dataIrritationEU CLP Eye Dam. 1

No concerns found (11)

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

Recognized ingredients (4)

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.

  • polyester5· film forming, viscosity controlling
  • thermus thermophillus ferment· skin conditioning
  • ethylenediamine/stearyl dimer dilinoleate copolymer· oral care, skin conditioning
  • pentaerythrityl tetra di t butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate· antioxidant

Not enough data (1)

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.

  • dosodium edta

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, glycerin, alcohol denat, octocrylene, diisopropyl sebacate, ethylhexyl salicylate, butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane, dicaprylyl carbonate, styrene/acrylates copolymer, drometrizole trisiloxane, ethylhexyl triazone, dimethicone, polyester5, tocopherol, thermus thermophillus ferment, phenoxyethanol, peg8 laurate, ethylenediamine/stearyl dimer dilinoleate copolymer, triethanolamine, pentaerythrityl tetra di t butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, caprylyl glycol, terephthalylidene dicamphor sulfonic acid, acrylates copolymer, bis ethylhexyloxyphenol methoxyphenyl triazine, dosodium edta, potassium sorbate

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