The Environmental Working Group is a popular site for research into ingredients and skin care products. They maintain a database called Skin Deep that ranks products and ingredients with a health score. 0 is safest. However, there are known problems with the submission process and rankings of products. For example, at time of writing, a search on “Clove” returns a huge number of clove based ingred...

We highly recommend that you research the ingredients in the products you currently use and those you consider buying. There are a number of well known ingredients to avoid but these same ingredients are prevalent in skin care today. Our Ingredient Watch section details a few of these – ingredients such as Parabens, SLS, PEG, Phthalates – ingredients known to be harmful to our bodies and really ha...