One of the “improvements” recently added to the Skin Deep Database was an additional rating of the quality of data supporting the safety rating. If a product was this dangerous how could the EWG possibly encourage people to buy it? Safety Ratings Based on Nothing But if you click on the picture they’ll be happy to have you buy the product through their affiliate program.
A 9 rating is one of the most dangerous product that can be found in the Skin Deep Database (according to them). Here is the Roc Retinol Moisturizer with a rating of 9. After all, why would they put an affiliate link to a product they rate as the worst of the worst? Unfortunately, the EWG seems more concerned about their Amazon Affiliate sales than they do about consumer safety. We participate in an Amazon Affiliate program on this site. This is a good deal for websites because if a consumer goes to Amazon and makes a purchase the website owner gets a small % of the sale (somewhere between 2 and 4%). One of the ways the EWG makes money is by participating in affiliate programs, specifically the Amazon Affiliate program and the Google affiliate program. I also criticized them for profiting off of what they consider “dangerous” products. I find it encouraging that they have fixed anything. But they still list Polyparaben as a synonym for Propylparaben but that is a minor mistake. They used to have a listing for a fictional compound POLYPARABEN. They have fixed at least one flaw that I pointed out in a previous blog post 3 reasons why the ( EWG is a dubious source). This Skin Deep app has information and online safety assessments for more than 74,000 personal care products, 2,400 brands and 9,000 ingredients, culled from product labels and from scientific and industry literature.The EWG gets a lot of criticism for flaws in their database, but I have to give them credit where credit is due. We launched this app to provide you with easy-to-navigate safety ratings – on your phone while you shop! – for a wide range of products and ingredients on the market. Get EWG’s Skin Deep mobile app today!Ĭlick here to download it from the iTunes App store.Ĭlick here to download it from the Android App store.ĮWG’s Skin Deep Cosmetics Database is the world’s largest safety guide to personal care products. When you shop, you deserve to have information about the safety of your moisturizers, shampoos and more at your fingertips, so we created a robust, easy-to-use mobile app to do just that. The email message announcing the launch of Skin Deep app is included below:
Latest in this apps saga is one from the Environmental Working Group (EWG). It’s the age of Smartphones, or increasingly so no wonder there are new mobile apps appearing on the screen ever so often.
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