EWG's Healthy Living
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About EWG's Healthy Living
EWG gives you the information you can't get elsewhere to make safer, smarter choices.
How does your food score? How many personal-care products do you use in a day?
EWG’s Healthy Living provides mobile access to our our Food Scores and Skin Deep guides, providing on-the-go information on tens of thousands of foods and more than 72,000 personal care products
Healthy Living provides a simple, searchable on-the-go guide for consumers interested in making healthy, affordable decisions about food and personal care products that’s good for people and the planet.
About Food Scores:
How do we know what we’re eating, really? Food processors make so many claims these days. Supermarkets are loaded with foods that contain chemicals no one can pronounce.
The Food Scores database includes more than:
• 80,000 products
• 5,000 ingredients
• 1,500 brands
How did we come up with our scores? We combine these ratings into a single overall product score.
-- Nutrition. The nutrition scoring algorithm considers multiple factors, including calories, saturated fat, trans fat, sugar, sodium, protein, fiber and fruit, vegetable and nut content.
-- Ingredient concerns. The ingredient concerns algorithm focuses on factors such as the likely presence of key contaminants, pesticides, hormones and antibiotics and the health implications of certain food additives.
-- Processing. The processing score reflects EWG's best estimate of the extent to which a particular food has been processed. Scoring factors include modification of individual ingredients from whole foods and the number of artificial ingredients.
About Healthy Living:
Your grooming rituals probably include shampoo, toothpaste, soap, deodorant, lip balm, sunscreen, body lotion, shaving products, and/or makeup.
And what about your children? Sunscreen, diaper cream, shampoo and lotion are common kids’ products.
Most people use cosmetics and other personal-care items without a second thought, believing that the government makes sure they’re safe. Not so. No health studies or pre-market testing are required.
EWG’s Skin Deep® Cosmetics Database is the world's largest safety reference tool for personal-care products. EWG has launched this app to provide you with easy-to-navigate safety ratings at your fingertips for a wide range of products and ingredients on the market.
Americans’ frequent exposure to cosmetics and personal-care products raises questions about the potential health risks of the myriad under-assessed ingredients they contain. These ingredients end up in the bodies of nearly every American.
When you know what chemicals are in the products you bring into your home and how they may affect your health and the environment, you can make informed purchasing decisions — and help transform the marketplace.
This app has information and online safety assessments for more than 72,000 personal care products, 2,500 brands and 9,000 ingredients, culled from product labels and from the scientific and industry literature.
To calculate a product score, we tally the hazards of each ingredient and evaluate every product in relation to all the others in Skin Deep®. The safest products score well by both measures: a low hazard rating AND fair or better data availability. EWG’s ratings are the best available information you can find on the safety of personal-care product ingredients.
How does your food score? How many personal-care products do you use in a day?
EWG’s Healthy Living provides mobile access to our our Food Scores and Skin Deep guides, providing on-the-go information on tens of thousands of foods and more than 72,000 personal care products
Healthy Living provides a simple, searchable on-the-go guide for consumers interested in making healthy, affordable decisions about food and personal care products that’s good for people and the planet.
About Food Scores:
How do we know what we’re eating, really? Food processors make so many claims these days. Supermarkets are loaded with foods that contain chemicals no one can pronounce.
The Food Scores database includes more than:
• 80,000 products
• 5,000 ingredients
• 1,500 brands
How did we come up with our scores? We combine these ratings into a single overall product score.
-- Nutrition. The nutrition scoring algorithm considers multiple factors, including calories, saturated fat, trans fat, sugar, sodium, protein, fiber and fruit, vegetable and nut content.
-- Ingredient concerns. The ingredient concerns algorithm focuses on factors such as the likely presence of key contaminants, pesticides, hormones and antibiotics and the health implications of certain food additives.
-- Processing. The processing score reflects EWG's best estimate of the extent to which a particular food has been processed. Scoring factors include modification of individual ingredients from whole foods and the number of artificial ingredients.
About Healthy Living:
Your grooming rituals probably include shampoo, toothpaste, soap, deodorant, lip balm, sunscreen, body lotion, shaving products, and/or makeup.
And what about your children? Sunscreen, diaper cream, shampoo and lotion are common kids’ products.
Most people use cosmetics and other personal-care items without a second thought, believing that the government makes sure they’re safe. Not so. No health studies or pre-market testing are required.
EWG’s Skin Deep® Cosmetics Database is the world's largest safety reference tool for personal-care products. EWG has launched this app to provide you with easy-to-navigate safety ratings at your fingertips for a wide range of products and ingredients on the market.
Americans’ frequent exposure to cosmetics and personal-care products raises questions about the potential health risks of the myriad under-assessed ingredients they contain. These ingredients end up in the bodies of nearly every American.
When you know what chemicals are in the products you bring into your home and how they may affect your health and the environment, you can make informed purchasing decisions — and help transform the marketplace.
This app has information and online safety assessments for more than 72,000 personal care products, 2,500 brands and 9,000 ingredients, culled from product labels and from the scientific and industry literature.
To calculate a product score, we tally the hazards of each ingredient and evaluate every product in relation to all the others in Skin Deep®. The safest products score well by both measures: a low hazard rating AND fair or better data availability. EWG’s ratings are the best available information you can find on the safety of personal-care product ingredients.
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Version update EWG's Healthy Living was updated to version 2.2.1
Version update EWG's Healthy Living was updated to version 2.2.0
Name changed Name changed! Skin Deep® now is known as EWG's Healthy Living.
More downloads EWG's Healthy Living reached 100 000 - 500 000 downloads
What are users saying about EWG's Healthy Living
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This new version has a smaller data base then before. Before you could look up on anything. Now bunch of items are deleted. Think that this app is done. Guess you can't run VS big players. App was great now just a time waste.
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The original app Skin Deep was so great with over 76000 products in the data base. I luckily wrote down my products that are rated low in toxicity because when I updated to this version, they lost pretty much most of their data and so it's hard to find newer products. EWG is a great company and the website still has a lot of household product info, but a lot of the cosmetic info was lost. Please increase the database again to what it used to have.
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I love the EWG website so much, but this app is very disappointing. There's such a limited amount of products, but that's only a minor issue. The most frustrating thing is waiting SO long for the pages to loadfl completely! It ruins my experience. Fix the speed issue and explain what the number ratings mean better & I will be happy to download again.
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I used to use the EWG app before it merged to Health Living and have been disappointed in this app. This app only has 2 Seventh Generation products in its database. Many of the products I scanned came up empty. I recommend going to the EWG website or trying the Think Dirty app as alternatives until this app grows its database of products.
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I'm scanning my household products and they're not even in the database for laundry soap, dish soap.. y'all only have what's best out there... and I was told by a YL rep this is the best and it's not!
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I've scanned item after item and they're all big brands, not one is on the database. The app constantly crashes too
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The information is good, but the app constantly crashes and gives connection problem errors when there's no connection issue. A lot of basic products are missing from the product lists.
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I love the concept of skin deep. But there are many bugs. Currently, every product search returns only the overall score and no details. Keep working on it please. You are a great resource
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Update March 28,2017. State of the app is still the same. Still missing major brands and products in their catalog. Looked up about 20 products and got no hits. Even tried general product names like ombrelle (was looking for sun block) and biotherm Homme and they had no products listed. Even looking up biotherm, there was only one result. Until they have a better database of results I will not give them any more than 1 star. Also, there's no way to submit a product.
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App never works and when it does it takes a good 5 minutes to tell you about a product. It has good intentions but it doesn't work. Nothing i scan is "found." I'm really disappointed.
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This app does not have a large range of products. It seems to be different. ALSO it's super slow.
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The search function does not work well and there are so many mainstream products not in their database. However, i am thankful for the info re: what they do have
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Can't use this app. Not all products are listed here, and the barcode scanner doesn't work.
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unfortunately I have only been able to find a few items on here. Very frustrating...ar
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It runs incredibly slow on my S7 that it's barely worth the time to use it. Otherwise, if you can tolerate the load times & freezing, it has great info.
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So far, 100% failure rate for identifying everyday common products i.e. Clarins, Loreal.
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So slow. Doesn't find most of the things i scanned or searched for.
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I thought it gave you healthier alternatives to items that didn't get a good rating. That would be a plus if it did
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Very disappointing, 3 years later this app still does not work on S7 Edge. Always saying "connection error" when there is no problem with my connection at all. Couldn't even use. Doesn't even open or display correctly. Note3
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When i scan products it always say blah... expanding data base
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Great app, but the database lacks many products that seem to be on the website, but not the app for some reason. It would also be great if they added household cleaning products to the app. Add that and expand the database and I'll give 5 stars.
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Searched for 14 different products, only found 1. I also wish it also had definitions or explanations for why specific ingredients/chemicals are beneficial or harmful.
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I have scanned 5 different items and each item comes back Not Found. The app doesn't even give you time to line up the barcode in the window. Not a good first impression.
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So buggy! I can never get this app to work.
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This app could be very helpful but isn't because I couldn't find any of my products using it. Also I noticed on some products it'll say"(old formulation)" how is that supposed to help us? How old is old and what about new products? Deleted app after a few minutes smh.
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Doesn't recognize Barcode s and doesn't have food searched. It seems biased.
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So many product is says barcode not found. But some have product it turns out blur, can't see the score! So bad quality
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This app needs help. Only recognizes maybe 1 out of 5 products, whether you are scanning a barcode or entering the product by name. Takes forever to load. Love the website, and the idea of the app is nice but only if it worked.
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I have scanned a hundred things & 'Barcode not found' is all it ever says. I type in the product but about 75% of what I type in says 'product not found'. Not worth the space on my phone.
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Not working the last 48 hours. Website works but app keeps having issues and hangs after any search
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I downloaded it because a friend uses it but it won't work. It keeps telling me it is not responding and to close the app.
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I love this app but lately i cannot update it. So I uninstalled and now can't install it again. So bummed.
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Missing a lot of products. Most of three products I scanned, couldn't find them on here.
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App crashes every time i use it. Database is not thorough or updated often. Frustrating!
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Used this one iPhone and it worked well. Tried it on an Android and cannot get it to work.
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I scanned about 10 products; none found.
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Very limited products. Most products I search for not in the data base. Very frustrating and of no help.
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The database of the app is so small and the barcode scanner doesn't work at all
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Needs more products in database. Also always seems to have connection problems
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Love all EWG is doing, app is easy to navigate. My suggestion would be for Verified Products to have links to the websites where they can be bought. It's time consuming to type each name in the search bar until you find a product you're willing to try. Please consider this. Maybe an article with best rated drug store stuff ?