{"id":578,"date":"2025-05-21T15:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiancemag.co.uk\/?p=578"},"modified":"2025-06-06T12:42:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:42:54","slug":"hormone-disruptors-skin-irritants-and-allergic-reactions-the-truth-behind-the-yuka-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/radiancemag\/2025\/05\/21\/hormone-disruptors-skin-irritants-and-allergic-reactions-the-truth-behind-the-yuka-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Hormone disruptors, skin irritants and allergic reactions: The Truth Behind the Yuka App"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you\u2019ve been anywhere on the internet in the last few months, you\u2019ll probably have heard of an app claiming to give your skincare products a rating based on their ingredient list.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the Yuka App, which has been making the rounds online for telling people their routine is \u2018toxic\u2019 and giving out alarmingly low scores on internet favourites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s described as a free healthcare app designed to help people \u2018decipher product labels and analyse the health impact\u2019 and give them a \u2018rating\u2019 out of 100 from excellent, good, mediocre, to poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What happened when we put our products into the app…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What is making my products \u2018bad\u2019?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Yuka website, they check cosmetics for ingredients including \u2018endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, allergens, pollutants or irritants.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As is pretty obvious, anything that could cause any allergic reaction or irritate your skin is good to be wary of, especially for those with specific skin types or conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, we often see the word \u2018endocrine disruptor\u2019 thrown around as a buzzword online by people who don\u2019t always understand what it really means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An endocrine disruptor is anything that disrupts the hormonal balance in your body, which is regulated to work a certain way, with certain levels of hormones such as insulin or adrenaline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex Padgett, a cosmetic chemist from the USA, explains the misconstrued science:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDo people even know what hormone disruptors are? Girl, we are on birth control. It’s frustrating, because everything, I would almost guarantee, is going to disrupt your hormones at some point, if you exaggerate the concentration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What they (Yuka) fail to take into account with most ingredients is that the studies they’re pulling from are inhalation studies, and I’m not snorting my skincare.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dermatologists online have been knocking the app, saying it has no backing and can often lead to scare mongering people into abandoning their medical skincare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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@drcharlesmd1<\/a>

Have you ever used the yuka app? #yuka<\/a> #skincare<\/a> #skin<\/a> #healthy<\/a> <\/p> \u266c Hip-hop instrumental.(1288673) – Eto<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote>