The Ingredient Lab

The Ingredient Lab

Know Exactly What's On Your Skin

Science-based ingredient transparency for New Zealand and Australia. No hazard scores. No fearmongering. Just peer-reviewed evidence in plain language.

Try: "Raw Nature", "sodium bicarbonate", "aluminium chloride", "Rexona"

Deodorants →Antiperspirants →Natural brands →Clinical strength →

Where would you like to go?

Three ways in

Browse Products
NZ & AU personal care products with full ingredient analysis
61 deodorants catalogued
Search Ingredients
Standalone ingredient encyclopaedia — evidence, context, citations
Coming Phase 2
Read the Science
Peer-reviewed studies translated into plain language
1 article published

Latest from the lab

Recent analysis & notes

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Science·How to weigh the evidence
"Toxic ingredients": what a 2024 review actually found
A dermatology review catalogued the usual suspects — parabens, phthalates, PFAS, formaldehyde. Read carefully, the cases are wildly different in strength. Here's the honest version.
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Lab Notes·Disclosure · PFAS
The forever chemical that quietly left your floss
A PTFE coating disappeared from one of the world's most popular flosses — no recall, no apology. Here's the evidence behind it, and why the story runs in both directions.
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Product Analysis·Deodorants · Antiperspirants
61 NZ & AU deodorants and antiperspirants catalogued
Natural brands, clinical strength, and mainstream products — with ingredient flags, origin, and transparency ratings across the full market.
⚗ Full ingredient engine in beta while we verify the data.
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Why this platform

Different from every database you've already tried

Concentration-aware analysis
We don't just flag ingredients for being present. We interpret their position in the INCI list to estimate likely concentration — because sodium bicarbonate at 30% behaves very differently to 1%.
We reward transparency
When a brand voluntarily discloses more than NZ law requires — like brands individually declaring six EU-listed fragrance allergens — we flag that as a positive, not just another concern.
No scores. No fear.
We don't reduce complex toxicology to a single number. We give you the full picture: what the evidence says, what it doesn't say, and what that means at the concentration in your product.
NZ & AU products only
Every platform you've found covers the US market. We cover what's actually on shelves at the retail — products that other databases have never looked at.
"We don't score products. We give you the full picture — what the science says, what it doesn't say, and what that means at the concentration in your product."
Koni — Founder, The Ingredient Lab
PhD Fellow · Engineer & Analytical Chemist · Ingredient Researcher

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