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Pregnancy-flagged ingredients

How often do ingredients a pregnancy screen would flag turn up in the skincare we've decoded? Counted live from real labels.

Last computed — every figure on this page is counted live from our decoded catalog, so it changes as coverage grows.

Not medical advice

This is not medical advice. It is an educational ingredient screen, not a diagnosis or a treatment recommendation. Pregnancy skincare decisions depend on your history, your trimester, and the specific product — talk to your doctor, OB-GYN, or dermatologist before starting, stopping, or continuing any product.

"Flagged" means our pregnancy checker matches the ingredient to an avoid- or caution-graded class drawn from peer-reviewed reviews and dermatology-authority guidance. A flag is a prompt to talk to your clinician — not a claim of harm, and an unflagged ingredient is not a guarantee of safety.

23%

of 1,914 decoded products contain ≥1 pregnancy avoid/caution ingredient

1,914

product labels decoded so far

25

distinct flagged ingredients (7 avoid-graded)

Quotable stats

Each line is self-contained and cites the source (us) — lift any one of them.

  • 23% of 1,914 decoded skincare products contain at least one ingredient a pregnancy screen flags to avoid or use with caution (beautydewlabs, 2026)

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  • 7% of decoded skincare products list BHA exfoliant, the most common pregnancy-flagged ingredient in the catalog (beautydewlabs, 2026)

    What BHA exfoliant does →
  • 6% of decoded skincare products list Ethylhexyl Salicylate, flagged to use with caution in pregnancy (beautydewlabs, 2026)

    What Ethylhexyl Salicylate does →
  • 4% of decoded skincare products list Octocrylene, flagged to use with caution in pregnancy (beautydewlabs, 2026)

    What Octocrylene does →
  • 3% of decoded skincare products list Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate, flagged to use with caution in pregnancy (beautydewlabs, 2026)

    What Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate does →
  • 2% of decoded skincare products list Vitamin A, flagged to avoid in pregnancy (beautydewlabs, 2026)

    What Vitamin A does →
  • 2% of decoded skincare products list Homosalate, flagged to use with caution in pregnancy (beautydewlabs, 2026)

    What Homosalate does →
  • 25 distinct pregnancy avoid/caution ingredients appear across the 1,914 decoded product labels we've read (beautydewlabs, 2026)

By category

How the flagged share varies by product type, most products first. Small samples are noisy — the count is shown so you can judge.

CategoryDecodedFlaggedShare
moisturizer2814516%
sunscreen26714755%
shampoo2233114%
cleanser2222712%
serum1864424%
mask1412115%
body lotion12676%
other1132320%
lip care1032019%
exfoliant954042%
toner54713%
hair mask41922%
eye cream34721%
hair oil14429%
conditioner8113%
styling400%
skincare2150%

How we counted

We match each ingredient on your label against a small, hand-curated rule set drawn from peer-reviewed reviews and dermatology-authority guidance (ACOG-aligned MotherToBaby fact sheets, Canadian Family Physician, and journal reviews — every flag links its source). Matching is literal substring matching on ingredient names, so a rule fires only when a known token is present. We grade each flag's evidence honestly: 'strong' means human/regulatory consensus, 'limited' means the basis is mechanistic or simply an absence of a safety signal.

What this can't tell you

This tool is conservative but imperfect. It can miss ingredients we don't have a rule for (an unflagged ingredient is NOT a guarantee of safety — it may just be unstudied), and it cannot see concentration, which changes the answer for dose-dependent ingredients like salicylic acid and AHAs. Much of the 'safe' evidence is reassurance-by-absence, not a dedicated pregnancy trial. It does not account for your medical history, trimester, or a product's full formulation.

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