Pregnancy

Skincare ingredients to avoid during pregnancy

These are the 1,147 ingredients in the Truva catalogue that carry a pregnancy flag, ordered by how strong the flag is. 331 are marked avoid. The rest are a caution, which is a different thing.

Flagged covers three levels here: avoid, high risk and medium risk. The first two are a recommendation to put the product down, matching how the Truva app rates the same ingredients. The third is a caution, and most of it sits on limited published data, which means the level is a precaution taken because nobody has studied the ingredient in pregnancy, not a finding that it caused harm. Every ingredient below has its own page with the level, the evidence behind it and the safer options the catalogue names. The full index is at all ingredients, A to Z.

Flagged

1,147

Ingredients carrying avoid, high risk or medium risk for pregnancy.

Not Recommended

331

Avoid and high risk together. Use something else while this profile applies.

Caution Advised

816

Medium risk. Worth reading the assessment before the product goes in the basket.

Catalogue read 15 September 2026. Every figure on this page comes out of that snapshot.

CAUTION

Caution Advised

816 of the 1,147 ingredients flagged for pregnancy.

Medium risk. Published guidance stops short of advising against these, and usually turns on how much, how often, or over how much skin. Open an ingredient to see what the concern actually is.

The other profiles

The same ingredient, answered four other ways.

An ingredient is not safe or unsafe on its own. It is safe or unsafe for a person at a point in their life, which is why the same name sits in one list and not in another.

The short way

Your bathroom shelf, checked in an afternoon.

Truva reads a label with the camera and answers for pregnancy specifically, including the trimester breakdown where the catalogue has one.

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