How Blair scores

Blair doesn't test products. Everything you see comes from the product's own ingredient label, read from its barcode, from a photo of the label, or from our catalog of products other people have already scanned.

Each ingredient is checked against Blair's concern list: ingredients that have been the subject of regulatory action, lawsuits or recalls, or published research linking them to health harm. Each entry records the type of concern, how strong the evidence is (which sets its tier), and whether it matters when eaten, applied to skin, or both.

A product starts at 100 and loses points for each flagged ingredient according to its tier. The single worst ingredient caps the score, so one serious ingredient can't be averaged away by a long list of harmless ones. A product with no ingredient list available is capped at 50. Ingredients not on the concern list show as not yet rated, which means we have no evidence either way.

The score doesn't consider quantity or concentration (labels don't say, and we don't test), product category, nutrition facts, price, or brand. Allergens are shown as notices and don't change the score.

A score is not a lab result, not a safety rating for you personally, and not medical advice. Talk to a doctor, pharmacist, or dermatologist before making health decisions.

Think something's wrong? Email contact@clearprojectsinc.com with the product and we'll look.

Product data includes content from Open Food Facts and Open Beauty Facts, © contributors, under the Open Database License (opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl).