Products and chemicals

Green Salon’s Positive List of Recommended Hair Cosmetic Products (downholad here)

In order to qualify for the Positve List of Recommended Hair Cosmetic Products the individual product is not allowed to contain certain chemicals. These chemicals are listed in the Green Salon’s List of Banned Chemicals, see below. Legally, these chemicals are allowed for use in the EU, but based on scientific evidence Green Salon considers them as major hazards to the hairdresser, the customers, or the environment. Many products may qualify for the Positve List of Recommended Hair Cosmetic Products if they do not contain chemicals listed on Green Salon’s List of Banned Chemicals. 

Green Salon’s list of Accepted Products (download here)

Green Salon’s List of Accepted Products is a non-comprehensive list of products 

  • not containing severely dangerous chemicals listed on Green Salon’s List of Banned Chemicals
  • in general, composed by safe chemicals, but
  • containing chemicals to which some/few people may react without severe consequences 

Products on this list are accepted for use in Green Salon, but the list signals that the producer should re-evaluate the recipe.

Green Salon’s List of Products that are not allowed in Green Salons – the negative list (download here)

All products in the Negative List contain one or several chemicals listed onGreen Salon’s List of Banned Chemicals.

The Negative List is a non-comprehensive list of hair cosmetic products containing chemicals with severe negative effects: extremely or strongly allergenic, toxic, carcinogenic or under suspicion of being endocrine disruptiv or under suspicion of teratogenic.

Green Salon’s List of Banned Chemicals

List of single chemicals considered especially dangerous or harmful and not allowed in Green Salon.