Pregnancy and what is in the bottle.
Search one ingredient, or paste a whole ingredient list. This shows you what our knowledge base holds on each one for pregnancy, exactly as it is written, including the places where the honest entry is that nobody has studied it.
This is education, not medical advice, and it cannot account for you. Guidance on cosmetic ingredients in pregnancy is cautious by default, much of it has never been formally studied, and the answer changes with your history and your stage. Check with your doctor or midwife before you act on anything here, including anything reassuring.
If you came here about retinol
Retinoids are the ingredient people arrive at this page for, and they are the clearest case our base holds. If you are looking for what to use instead, we wrote up the alternatives and what the evidence behind each one actually looks like.
Of the 302 ingredients in our base, 13 are marked avoid in pregnancy and 70 are marked caution. For most of what is on a skincare label, nobody has run a study in pregnancy at all. Absence of a flag is not evidence of safety, and we are not going to present it as one.
What this does not do: it does not know your pregnancy, it does not know concentrations, and it does not replace the person looking after you. It reads our database back to you and shows you where it is empty.
Knowledge base last reviewed August 2026. How we score →
To read a whole label for everything else it contains, not only pregnancy, use the free ingredient list decoder. To check whether two things in your routine clash, there is the conflict checker, and everything you keep lives on My Shelf.