Cosmetic safety checker

Why 'hazard' and 'risk' aren't the same word

A hazard is an ingredient's inherent potential to cause a certain effect; risk is the chance it actually does, at the amount and in the way you're exposed. An ingredient can carry a hazard classification and still pose little real risk in a finished product used normally — which is exactly why the EU often sets a concentration limit rather than a ban. Clarra shows the flag, names the source, explains the nuance, and leaves the judgement to you. It's informational, not medical or safety advice.

Why Clarra

• Shows regulatory classifications, always with the source named.
• Keeps hazard classification separate from real-world risk.
• Never labels a product 'toxic', 'dangerous' or a health verdict.
• Uses calm bands like 'context matters' or 'flagged or restricted'.
• Clear, site-wide 'informational only, not medical advice' stance.

How Clarra reads a product

• Search a product by name, or scan its ingredient label — no live 'point at anything' barcode magic promised.
• Clarra parses the INCI ingredient list into plain English.
• Flagged ingredients get their sourced regulatory context; benign ones are marked as generally well tolerated.
• You see the three pillars at a glance and decide for yourself — informational only, not medical or safety advice.

We cite, we don't accuse

Every flag in Clarra points to a named source — the EU Cosmetic Ingredient database, IARC, California Proposition 65, the Cosmetic Ingredient Review, or ECHA. We describe an ingredient as 'flagged by' or 'restricted in the EU', never as 'toxic' or 'dangerous', and we never tell you a product causes harm. Sourced context lets you make your own call with the actual facts in front of you.

Three pillars, kept separate

Clarra reads three distinct things and refuses to blend them into one misleading score: what a product's ingredient list flags, whether the brand is cruelty-free, and whether the formula is vegan. Keeping them separate matters — a product can be vegan but worth checking on testing policy, or cruelty-free but not vegan. One number would hide all of that; three clear pillars don't.

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.