EWG Healthy Living alternative: how Clarra compares

What EWG Healthy Living is known for

EWG Healthy Living is the app from the Environmental Working Group, connected to its well-known Skin Deep cosmetics database and EWG Verified programme. EWG has been a major voice in consumer ingredient awareness for many years and maintains an extensive ingredient resource.

Where Clarra and it overlap

Clarra shares EWG's underlying goal of helping people understand cosmetic ingredients and make choices that fit their own values.

How Clarra approaches the same job

• Clarra doesn't embed the EWG/Skin Deep database or use EWG's ratings; it draws on open regulatory sources (EU CosIng, IARC, Prop 65, CIR, ECHA) and cites each one.
• Clarra keeps a strict hazard-versus-risk distinction and avoids blended product verdicts, using calm bands instead.
• Cruelty-free and vegan status are separate pillars, shown as what a brand states or is certified for rather than accusations.
• Clarra doesn't display licensed certification logos; statuses are shown as text to stay clear of licensing and IP issues.

Which tends to suit whom

EWG's app suits people who value its long-running database and verification programme. Clarra suits those who prefer open-source citations, an explicit hazard-versus-risk stance and a beauty-only focus with separate ethics pillars.

Open sources, no black box

Clarra doesn't embed any proprietary rating database or invent its own secret score. It draws on open, public regulatory sources and cites them, and uses Open Beauty Facts product data under the ODbL with attribution. If you want to check where a flag comes from, the source is right there — transparency is part of the point.

What Clarra reads on every product

• Ingredient flags — how named regulators (EU CosIng, IARC, Prop 65, CIR, ECHA) classify or restrict what's inside, with hazard kept separate from risk.
• Cruelty-free status — shown with positive framing: what a brand states or is certified for, never an accusation.
• Vegan status — flagging animal-derived ingredients like carmine, beeswax and lanolin, and honest about ambiguous-source ones.