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I searched for a ton of products I use on this site and found no results–I find EWG[0] to have a much better dataset. [0]: https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/ https:

by css 5y ago

I searched for a ton of products I use on this site and found no results–I find EWG[0] to have a much better dataset. [0]: https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/ https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/

tablespoonsruby 5y ago
EWG is a source of misinformation: https://www.theecowell.com/blog/a-case-against-the-ewg https://www.theecowell.com/blog/a-case-against-the-ewg
- css 5y ago
  This article cherry-picks a few items and discussed how EWG interprets the ingredient safety. It does not follow that all of EWG is misinformation; dismissing the useful database of ingredients, animal testing statuses, and other data is itself misinformation.
  - tablespoonsruby 5y ago
    There's plenty more criticism out there: https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/05/25/dear-ewg-why-real-scientists-think-poorly-you-11323 https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/05/25/dear-ewg-why-real-scien... https://chemistscorner.com/3-reasons-the-ewg-is-dubious-resource/ https://chemistscorner.com/3-reasons-the-ewg-is-dubious-reso...
    - css 5y ago
      Again, disagreeing with their risk assessment is one thing, but pretending the database itself is misinformation is dishonest.
mlok 5y ago
Thank you, I did not know EWG. It looks like the US part of Open Beauty Facts is still lacking (618 products in the USA, whereas there are 16500 products in France). Here visitors add products infos and images which are then free for all to use (open licence). I guess in the long run it can make a difference. This project is quite young. https://world.openbeautyfacts.org/who-we-are https://world.openbeautyfacts.org/who-we-are https://world.openbeautyfacts.org/faq https://world.openbeautyfacts.org/faq