Affiliate & Advertising Disclosure

Amazon Associates

ProductSafer is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites (including amazon.co.uk and other regional stores).

ProductSafer is also a participant in the Amazon EU Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

When you click an Amazon link on ProductSafer and make a qualifying purchase within 24 hours, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps fund the editorial work behind ProductSafer. Every affiliate link is labelled where it appears. There are two kinds:

• Safer alternatives on finding pages ("Shop on Amazon"): chosen by our editors as alternatives to the product a finding is about. We never link to the product a finding warns about.
• Searches in our tools (the barcode scanner, pregnancy checker and allergen checker): a link to an Amazon search for a type of product without a flagged ingredient or allergen, such as "fragrance free shampoo" or "nut-free snacks". These are Amazon's search results, not products we have checked, so always read the label yourself.

Readers in the UK and Ireland are sent to amazon.co.uk and others to amazon.com. We count clicks on these links (country and store only, no personal data) to see whether they are useful.

Editorial Independence

Affiliate relationships do not influence which findings we publish, how we rate product safety, or which products we cover. Our editorial decisions are based solely on the scientific evidence and credibility of the source material. We will never recommend a product purely because it earns us a commission.

Google AdSense

This site displays advertisements served by Google AdSense. Google may use cookies and device identifiers to personalise the ads you see based on your interests and prior browsing activity. You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings or via the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out.

ProductSafer Verified Certification

Brands can pay an annual fee to apply for a “ProductSafer Verified” badge for a specific product (see Get Verified). This fee pays for the review itself — it does not buy approval. Certification is decided separately from our editorial findings: it checks a submitted ingredient list against our flagged-substances database and a human review, and has no effect on a brand or product's coverage, safety score, or severity ratings elsewhere on the site. A rejected application is not published, named, or held against the brand.

“Verified” means the submitted ingredient list did not match anything in our flagged-substances database at the time of review — it is not a general safety guarantee, a medical endorsement, or a claim that we tested the physical product.

Sponsorships

From time to time, ProductSafer may feature sponsored content or sponsored sections in our weekly email digest and website sidebar. All sponsored content is clearly labelled "Sponsored". Sponsors have no influence over our health findings, editorial coverage, or product safety assessments.

Some early sponsors receive their first placement free in exchange for letting us publish the results as a case study. A free placement is still advertising: it is labelled "Sponsored" in exactly the same way and follows the same rules.

Paid plans and business services

Readers can pay for Family and Pro plans, and businesses can pay for recall monitoring, our data API and ProductSafer Verified reviews. Paying for any of these never changes what we publish about a company or its products, the severity of a finding, or any safety score. Safety information is never behind a paywall: paid plans add convenience features such as more saved products, cloud sync and higher AI usage limits.

Ko-fi Donations

We accept voluntary tips via Ko-fi to help cover hosting and editorial costs. Donors receive no special access, influence over content, or commercial benefit.

FTC & ASA Compliance

In accordance with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines and the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) rules, we disclose any material connection between ProductSafer and the products or companies we link to. This page constitutes that disclosure.