Trying to Conceive

Skincare ingredients to avoid when trying to conceive

Trying to conceive is the profile that covers the gap between a pregnancy starting and anybody knowing about it. 673 ingredients carry a flag here, 203 of them marked avoid, and much of the list is the pregnancy list moved a few weeks earlier.

Flagged means avoid, high risk or medium risk. Many of these flags are precautionary by design rather than by accident: the whole point of the profile is to keep something off your skin during the fortnight where a pregnancy exists and no test would show it yet. 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

673

Ingredients carrying avoid, high risk or medium risk for trying to conceive.

Not Recommended

203

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

Caution Advised

470

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.

AVOID

Not Recommended

203 of the 673 ingredients flagged for trying to conceive.

Avoid and high risk both land here, matching how the Truva app rates the same ingredients. The recommendation is to use something else for as long as this profile applies to you.

CAUTION

Caution Advised

470 of the 673 ingredients flagged for trying to conceive.

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

Make the swap before the test, not after it.

Truva treats trying to conceive as its own profile, so you are not reading a pregnancy list and guessing which parts apply to you yet.

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