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I searched for a ton of products I use on this site and found no results–I find EWG[0] to have a much better dataset.

Thank you, I did not know EWG.

It looks like the US part of Open Beauty Facts is still lacking (618 products in the USA, whereas there are 16500 products in France). Here visitors add products infos and images which are then free for all to use (open licence). I guess in the long run it can make a difference. This project is quite young.

https://world.openbeautyfacts.org/who-we-are

https://world.openbeautyfacts.org/faq

EWG is a source of misinformation: https://www.theecowell.com/blog/a-case-against-the-ewg

This article cherry-picks a few items and discussed how EWG interprets the ingredient safety. It does not follow that all of EWG is misinformation; dismissing the useful database of ingredients, animal testing statuses, and other data is itself misinformation.

There's plenty more criticism out there:

https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/05/25/dear-ewg-why-real-scien... https://chemistscorner.com/3-reasons-the-ewg-is-dubious-reso...

Again, disagreeing with their risk assessment is one thing, but pretending the database itself is misinformation is dishonest.

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