Is That Product Healthy?
Find out easily with the free GoodGuide® app

Many products claim to be healthy and safe. And no wonder since consumers care about their family’s safety and have become ever more educated about potential hazardous chemicals in everyday products.
The
Women’s Facial Skincare Consumer Report 2017 by the
NPD Group demonstrates this increased interest in and knowledge about consumer
product safety. The study found that 40 percent of U.S. women surveyed often buy products free of parabens,
phthalates, sulfates and/or gluten (up from 33 percent in 2015). Some parabens and phthalates can pose health risks, according to the Scientific Committee
on Consumer Safety (SCCS).
With
UL‘s free GoodGuide® app, which rates more
than 75,000 consumer products for each product’s health impacts, helps make the
research much easier. Categories include personal care, food, household, and
babies and kids. Based on the expertise of UL and GoodGuide scientists, the app makes it easy to see a list of the product’s ingredients,
as well as understand whether any of them pose health risks. For instance,
GoodGuide rates products with five specific parabens with low scores, based on scientific studies on toxicity and
exposure levels, while not penalizing products using parabens determined to be safe by the SCCS.
GoodGuide’s
product ratings allow you to quickly see the highest-rated products on a scale of 0-10. With the app, you can also:
- Scan, search or
browse by products, brands, companies or product
categories.
- Check a
product’s rating by scanning its barcode.
- Easily see if a
product contains ingredients that pose health concerns.
- Research the health
impacts of common ingredients in the Ingredient
Index.
- Find out the nutritional value of food products.
- Find safer
alternatives to low-scoring products.
- See if products
earned the Good Housekeeping Seal or the Green Good Housekeeping Seal.
- Read product reviews from GoodGuide users and write your own.
- Suggest products to include in GoodGuide.
- Get
information immediately while on the go.
Download the GoodGuide app today, for iOS App or Android. Or bookmark our mobile website.