This is a good app to help find safe products! My mom is all about that and she approves of the app, but it needs more! Let me explain, I’m a big beauty lover, so I go on here to look up some product I’m thinking of buying, 99% of the time, a very POPULAR product, and I’m met with nothing! These are pretty popular and sometimes even viral and you don’t have it!? The other thing is I was on hair care for people of color and when I went onto “styling aid for people of color,” all it said was and I quote, “looks empty :(“. What? Why would you have it if you haven’t tested anything! I get it, it can take a long time to test bad put in the information but come on! I’d bump this up to a 5 if you guys would start testing more popular self care products that probably a lot more people want to know more about too.

I use this app frequently. I’ve been using it to inform myself as much as possible about seed, oils, and the dangers from various seed oils. For those of you who are familiar with the Hateful 8 oils, this could be useful for you. It is also great for avoiding heavily processed foods, as I do now and try to only eat, minimally processed, or whole foods. And finally, I use it to try to detoxify my life as much as possible by making informed decisions about the cleaning products I purchase and personal care products use. If there is one category, I would like them to add it would be supplements( vitamins) because not all supplement and vitamin brands are equal, those owned by large pharmaceutical companies are less trustworthy. I can’t quite give it five stars because there seems to be an issue with the submissions, the submission date shows the current date you are looking at them. Also not all the submissions I’ve made seem to be on the list or they’ve since added them to the data base and have removed them? I am unsure if their process. But it is a great feature, allowing its members to submit products for review, still needs a little bit of work. Still needs more products added to their database, considering all that is out there it is very limited.

I downloaded this app to review products that are commonly promoted as being nontoxic or eco-friendly. In my opinion this app has a very misleading ranking system. There are four general categories on which an item is ranked (skin sensitivities, developmental/hormone disrupting, asthma causing, and environmentally conscious) based on these factors the product(s) ingredients are ranked on a scale A-F. For example, let’s take a laundry detergent for instance with 10 ingredients 8 of those ingredients are ranked A, 1 is ranked B, and the last ranked C. A average person would assume that the rating would perhaps be B, but the overall raking will be listed as C which for most people would automatically deem as “toxic or not safe.” Then they have their “EWG healthy living” approved products that have met strict standards… but let’s take another laundry detergent for instance that has 22 listed ingredients, 13 of the ingredients are ranked C, 5 are ranked B, and 4 are ranked A. Now of course the general rating for this product is not posted, but you could only assume it would not be higher than a C, but is given a “stamp of approval.” EWG claims that they break down each product by hazard and data availability, but the rankings to me don’t make much sense when the “bad” is outweighing the “good.” This app like a lot of other “health” apps need some work or need to have more information listed as to how and why the products are getting these specific rankings. As a consumer I would still do your own research and come to your own conclusions about what you believe is safe.

I LOVE EWG, I’ve been using skin deep for years and have donated to their work when I can. So grateful for them!One bit of feedback I hope they will apply; I’ve been looking for clean beauty products lately and I think I have a way to greatly improve the “ewg verified” function.PLEASE; instead of just a list of products in a category, for instance, lipstick, please make a list of COMPANIES. I know that not all products from a company will be verified and that’s why the products are just thrown into a list. For instance, there are some Fenty lipsticks on the list spread out randomly, but maybe not ALL fenty lipsticks meet the standard or have been verified. But I had to go through pages and pages just to get out of the first three companies.If the companies were in a list, and then maybe they could have a drop down function or click to link to the specific products that are verified, that would be SO nice. For instance, Honest beauty had most of the products on the first few pages, but I’ve already tried their products and am looking for a new go to company. Several pages in, I found an interesting company called Gabriel, and another called Flower. I’d like to see all the companies that have verified items in a list.Thank you so much! I hope this change is possible! You guys rock and I will continue to support how I can!