Shower gel: 1,247 labels checked

1,247 shower gels from 450 brands on Open Beauty Facts, read one ingredient at a time. Below: how many pass each of the six checks, the ones that pass, which ingredients decide it, and the most scanned products.

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Six checks across 1,247 shower gels

Check	Yes	No	Not sure
Vegan shower gels	160 (13%)	120	967
Fragrance-free shower gels	56 (4%)	1177	14
Paraben-free shower gels	1209 (97%)	13	25
Sulfate-free shower gels	315 (25%)	915	17
Silicone-free shower gels	1209 (97%)	13	25
Alcohol-free shower gels	1173 (94%)	49	25

Yes means the ingredient list contains none of the ingredients that check looks for. Not sure on the vegan check means an ingredient can come from a plant or an animal and the label does not say which.

What decides it most often

Ingredients that turned a check to No in shower gels, counted across the 400 most scanned lists.

Vegan shower gels

160 of 1,247 shower gels pass the vegan check. The 8 most scanned:

All vegan products

Fragrance-free shower gels

56 of 1,247 shower gels pass the fragrance-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All fragrance-free products

Paraben-free shower gels

1,209 of 1,247 shower gels pass the paraben-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All paraben-free products

Sulfate-free shower gels

315 of 1,247 shower gels pass the sulfate-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All sulfate-free products

Silicone-free shower gels

1,209 of 1,247 shower gels pass the silicone-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All silicone-free products

Alcohol-free shower gels

1,173 of 1,247 shower gels pass the alcohol-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All alcohol-free products

Most scanned shower gels

Showing the 72 most scanned of 1,247. Search all shower gels.

Data: Open Beauty Facts, community database, ODbL license. Categories come from the product name and the community tags, so a few products sit in the wrong group; the check itself reads only the ingredient list. No brand pays for a verdict.