EWG's Healthy Living
- 48 of 100 · reviews
- 3.8of 5 · store
- 2,635ratings on the App Store
- 499reviews read
An editorial reading of the saved reviews
People value EWG as the oldest and most authoritative database on cosmetics and food safety, and they've used it for over a decade and trust its research. The reviews show the app falls down on scanning: out of 20-50 products in a store only a handful get found, and those found often carry a 2016 rating or an old formulation. After the update it got worse: an ingredient's score hides behind a tap, you can't paste an ingredient list as text, and sunscreens lost their UVA/UVB data.
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What people use it for
For anyone who wants to check cosmetics and food against an authoritative database and can live with a weak scanner and outdated data
What reviews praise
The oldest authoritative database on cosmetics and food safety, constantly updates its data, quick check before buying, easy search and adding products
What reviews complain about
The scanner finds a handful of products out of dozens, many outdated 2016 ratings and old formulations, after the update an ingredient's score hides behind a tap, can't paste ingredients as text, sunscreens lost their UVA/UVB data
What users experience
3 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.
I scanned about 50 items at Walmart and it had about 5 to 10% of them
I have submitted at least a dozen products on this app yet when I log in, the app shows only one of my submissions.
allow me to copy and paste ingredients from an item I’m interested in purchasing online and have it analyze the list for harmful ingredients instead of requiring me to physically scan the item
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