Bored of scrutinising ingredients lists? With Big Green Smile, you don’t have to. We’ve banned over 130 ingredients, and every new product is checked against our list before we add it to the shop.
We ban ingredients for a number of reasons. In most cases, it’s because they’re harmful to the environment or have been linked to health issues. Oxybenzone, for example, is a common sunscreen ingredient, but it can kill coral and other marine life, which earns it a place on our banned list.
Beauty and Personal Care banned ingredients
2-Bromo-2-Nitropropane-1(and) 3-Diol ● Iodine complex with ammonium ether sulfate and polyoxyethylene sorbitan monolaurate ● Phthalates ● Acetone ● Iodine complex with phosphate ester of alkylaryloxy polyethylene glycol ● Picaridin ● Alcloxa ● Isododecane ● Poloxamer—iodine complex ● Aluminum Chloride Hexahydrate ● Isoeicosane ● Polyimide-1 ● Aluminum Chlorohydrate ● Lead acetate ● Polymethyl Methacrylate ● Ammonia ● Lidocaine ● Polyperfluoroethoxymethoxy Difluoroethyl Peg Phosphate ● Ammonium C6-16 perfluoroalkyl ethyl phosphate ● Melanin ● Polyperfluoroethoxymethoxy PEG-2 phosphate ● Ammonium Xylene Sulfonate ● Methyl Nicotinate ● Povidone-iodine ● Benzethonium Chloride ● Methylbenzethonium chloride ● PTFE ● Benzocaine ● Methylene bis-benzotriazoyl tetramethylbutylphenol ● Quaternium 15 ● BHA (Butylated Hydroxyanisole) ● Methylene glycol ● Secondary amyltricresols ● BHT (Butylated Hydroxytoluene) Butoxyethanol ● Microbeads ● Sh-oligopeptide-1 ● C9-15 fluoroalcohol phosphate ● Myristamide DEA ● Sodium Dodecylbenzenesulfonate ● Chlorotrifluoropropene ● Nonylphenoxypoly (ethyleneoxy) ethanoliodine ● Sodium magnesium fluorosilicate ● Cloflucarban ● Octafluoropentyl methacrylate ● Sodium Oxychlorosene ●Coal tar ● Octinoxate ● Soyamide DEA ● Copper Disodium EDTA ● Oleamide DEA ● TBHQ (tertiary butylhydroquinone) ● Diazolidinyl Urea ● Oxybenzone ● Toluene ● Diethanolamine (DEA) ● Pentafluoropropane ● Tribromsalan ● Dimethyl phenylbutanol ● Perfluorodecalin ● Triclocarban ● Dimethylmethoxy Chromanyl Palmitate ● Perfluorodimethylcyclohexane ● Triclosan ● Equine Oil ● Perfluorohexane ● Triple dye ● Fluorosalan ● Perfluorononyl dimethicone ● Undecoylium chloride iodine complex ● Formaldehyde ● Perfluorononylethyl carboxydecyl PEG-10 dimethicone ● Vanillyl Butyl Ether ● Hexachlorophene ● Perfluorooctyl triethoxysilane ● Hexylresorcinol ● Perfluoroperhydrophenanthrene ● Hydroquinone ● Phenylethyl resorcinol
Household banned ingredients
2-Bromo-2-nitropropane-1 (and) 3-diol ● Diazolidinyl urea ● Phthalates ● 2-Butoxyethanol ● Diethanolamine (DEA) ● Poly-4-Vinylpyridine-N-Oxide ● 4,4'-Diamino-2,2'-stilbenedisulfonic acid ● Disodium phosphate ● Polymeric Blue Dye ● 4-Acetylpyridine-N-Oxide ●E310 ● Potassium Alkylpolyoxyethylene Phosphate ● 4-Formylphenylboronic acid ● E339 ● Proprietary Stilbenzene Derivative (3V) ● Acid blue 182 (Anthraquinone dye) ● Ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid ● Proprietary Synthetic Detergent Chelator ● Alizarin cyanine green F (Anthraquinone dye) ● FD&C Blue No. 1 ● Quaternium-15 ● Alkyl (C10-16) benzene ● FD&C Blue No. 2 ● Sodium chlorite ● Alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride ● FD&C Green No. 3 ● Sodium hypochlorite ● Alkyl dimethyl ethylbenzyl ammonium chloride ● FD&C Red No. 3 ● Sodium xylene sulfate ● Alkylphenol ethoxylate ● FD&C Red No. 40 ● Surcide-P ● Benzene (C14-C30) alkylate ● FD&C Yellow No. 5 ● Surfonic P-1 ● BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) ● FD&C Yellow No. 6 ● Toluene ● Bronopol ● Formaldehyde ● Tributylphenol polyglycol ether, 12 - 14 EO ● C10-14 Alkyl benzene sulfuric acid ● Hexahydro-1,3,5-Tris (2-hydroxyethyl)-s-triazine ● Triclosan ● Cannabidiol ● Isonicotinic acid-n-oxide ● Trisodium phosphate ● Chlorine ● Nitromethylidynetrimethanol ● Urea-formaldehyde-copolymer ● Dantoguard Preservative ● Nonylphenyl ethoxylate ● Diaminostilbene disulfonic acid ● Phosphates
Of course, there’s more to sustainability than just banning ingredients. We have a robust Supplier Code of Conduct in place, which covers everything from child labour to pollution. We don’t allow animal testing. And we’ve joined the fight against single-use plastic. It’s all part of our mission to make sustainable shopping the norm.