Data report
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.
of 7,133 decoded products contain ≥1 pregnancy avoid/caution ingredient
product labels decoded so far
distinct flagged ingredients (9 avoid-graded)
Quotable stats
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21% of 7,133 decoded skincare products contain at least one ingredient a pregnancy screen flags to avoid or use with caution (beautydew labs, 2026)
Check any label →7% of decoded skincare products list BHA exfoliant, the most common pregnancy-flagged ingredient in the catalog (beautydew labs, 2026)
What BHA exfoliant does →3% of decoded skincare products list Ethylhexyl Salicylate, flagged to use with caution in pregnancy (beautydew labs, 2026)
What Ethylhexyl Salicylate does →3% of decoded skincare products list Capryloyl Salicylic Acid, flagged to use with caution in pregnancy (beautydew labs, 2026)
What Capryloyl Salicylic Acid does →3% of decoded skincare products list Vitamin A, flagged to avoid in pregnancy (beautydew labs, 2026)
What Vitamin A does →2% of decoded skincare products list Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate, flagged to use with caution in pregnancy (beautydew labs, 2026)
What Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate does →2% of decoded skincare products list Octocrylene, flagged to use with caution in pregnancy (beautydew labs, 2026)
What Octocrylene does →31 distinct pregnancy avoid/caution ingredients appear across the 7,133 decoded product labels we've read (beautydew labs, 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.
| Category | Decoded | Flagged | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| serum | 1141 | 256 | 22% |
| moisturizer | 1125 | 179 | 16% |
| cleanser | 730 | 127 | 17% |
| mask | 719 | 116 | 16% |
| shampoo | 611 | 113 | 18% |
| sunscreen | 602 | 265 | 44% |
| exfoliant | 402 | 172 | 43% |
| toner | 382 | 85 | 22% |
| other | 305 | 46 | 15% |
| body lotion | 282 | 19 | 7% |
| lip care | 210 | 32 | 15% |
| eye cream | 192 | 44 | 23% |
| styling | 165 | 16 | 10% |
| conditioner | 112 | 5 | 4% |
| hair mask | 80 | 17 | 21% |
| hair oil | 43 | 9 | 21% |
| skincare | 24 | 5 | 21% |
| body wash | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| hand cream | 4 | 0 | 0% |
Bar shade marks how a row compares to the largest value shown here: darker is higher, relative to this breakdown only.
Most-flagged ingredients
The pregnancy-flagged ingredients that turn up most often, by share of decoded products.
- BHA exfoliant7%
- Ethylhexyl Salicylate3%
- Capryloyl Salicylic Acid3%
- Vitamin A3%
- Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate2%
- Octocrylene2%
Bar shade marks how a row compares to the largest value shown here: darker is higher, relative to this breakdown only.
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.
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.
Cite this
beautydew labs. "Pregnancy-flagged ingredients across the catalog — a live data report." Accessed October 5, 2026. https://beautydewlabs.com/data/pregnancy-flagged-ingredients