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Wella Elements

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Elements — 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 · 26 ingredients analyzed

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

Risk categories found

Allergy risk3 ingredients · max 7/10Irritation8 ingredients · max 5/10Environmental impact1 ingredient · max 3/10

Flagged ingredients (12)

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.

Glycolic Acid

exfoliant

Severity 5/10Editorial
Sensitive skin: High cautionDry skin: Use with cautionBabies & kids: Use with cautionEczema-prone: Best avoided
  • Irritation:Stinging, redness and increased sun sensitivity; smallest, deepest-penetrating AHA.

The strongest common AHA exfoliant. Effective for texture and tone but raises sun sensitivity — daytime SPF is essential while using it.

Severity 4/10
Sensitive skin: Use with cautionDry skin: High cautionBabies & kids: Use with cautionEczema-prone: High caution
  • Irritation:Drying and defatting to the skin barrier.

Rubbing alcohol; used as a solvent in some products and drying to skin in meaningful concentrations.

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.

Lactic Acid

exfoliant · humectant

Severity 3/10Editorial
Sensitive skin: Use with cautionBabies & kids: Use with cautionEczema-prone: Use with caution
  • Irritation:Milder than glycolic; still increases photosensitivity.

A gentler AHA that exfoliates and hydrates simultaneously; the usual pick for drier or more reactive skin starting acids.

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.

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.

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.

glyoxalRegulatory dataHormone disruptionAllergy riskIrritationEU CLP Muta. 2EU CLP Skin Sens. 1EU CosIng Annex III (declarable / restricted)EU CLP Skin Irrit. 2EU CLP Eye Irrit. 2

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 (8)

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

Recognized ingredients (5)

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
  • disodium cocoamphodiacetate· cleansing, hair conditioning, skin condi…
  • trisodium ethylenediamine disuccinate· chelating
  • acrylates/c10-30 alkyl acrylate crosspolymer· emulsion stabilising, film forming, visc…
  • fraxinus excelsior wood extract· skin conditioning

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.

  • polyquaternemium-7

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)

aqua/eau, sodium lauroyl methyl isethionate, glycerin, cocamidopropyl betaine, disodium cocoamphodiacetate, panthenol, sodium benzoate, trisodium ethylenediamine disuccinate, phenoxyethanol, polyquaternium-10, parfum, acrylates/c10-30 alkyl acrylate crosspolymer, salicylic acid, polyquaternemium-7, benzyl salicylate, glycolic acid, argania spinosa kernel oil, sodium chloride, sodium acetate, fraxinus excelsior wood extract, tetrasodium EDTA, isopropyl alcohol, sodium hydroxide, lactic acid, potassium sorbate, glyoxal

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