💎 Serum
Topicals Faded Brightening & Clearing Serum
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✨Brightening🧴Acne-Friendly🌿Soothing💧Oily-Friendly
👃Fragrance-Free🫧Non-Comedogenic💚Allergen-Free✅Paraben-Free🧪Alcohol-Free
Topicals Topicals Faded Brightening & Clearing Serum is a serum with 5 active ingredients. Key actives: Tranexamic Acid, Niacinamide, Azelaic Acid, Kojic Acid, …. Fragrance-free.
View product ↗Description
Faded Brightening + Clearing Serum by Topicals tackles dark spots and uneven tone with a serum that clears and brightens.
Warnings
- •5 potential irritants in the formula — introduce gradually.
Ingredient Breakdown (8 INCI · 6 active)
- 0Aqua/Water
- 1Tranexamic AcidACTIVE
- 2NiacinamideACTIVE
- 3Azelaic AcidACTIVE
- 4Kojic AcidACTIVE
- 5Alpha ArbutinACTIVE
- 6Glycerin
- 8Centella Asiatica ExtractACTIVE
Product Info
Type
Serum
Price
$11.49
Certifications
👃 Fragrance-Free🫧 Non-Comedogenic💚 Allergen-Free✅ Paraben-Free🧪 Alcohol-Free
Score Breakdown
Efficacy
91
🧪Ingredient Quality45 / 45
- ✓5 high-impact actives: Tranexamic Acid, Niacinamide, Azelaic Acid +2 more
- ✓3 supporting actives (Tier 2)
🎯Concentration Signal15 / 15
- ✓3 active concentrations disclosed on the label
- ↑Disclose the % for the remaining 5 actives
🏆Evidence Backing12.8 / 15
- ✓Average evidence 86/100 across 9 matched actives
- ✓8 actives with strong evidence (≥80/100)
🧬Formulation Sophistication12 / 12
- ✓5 distinct ingredient classes — well-rounded formula
- ✓Synergy: Arbutin + Kojic Acid · Tranexamic + Niacinamide · Tranexamic Acid + Alpha Arbutin
📋Functional Completeness6 / 8
- ✓Carries the active classes expected for this product type
🛡️Base Formula Credit0 / 5
Safety
98
Starts at 100; each row below subtracts points up to its cap.
🔥Irritation Risk−6.5 / 18
- ⚠1 moderate-irritation ingredient: Kojic Acid
🌿Fragrance0 / 10
- ✓Fragrance-free
⚠️Allergens0 / 10
- ✓No EU 26 fragrance allergens detected
🚫Endocrine Concern0 / 15
- ✓No ingredients flagged for endocrine activity
💎Comedogenicity0 / 7
- ✓No pore-clogging ingredients detected
🔀Formulation Conflicts0 / 10
- ✓No antagonistic ingredient combinations
✨Clean-Formula & Transparency+5 / 8
- ✓Short-ingredient-list bonus: +3.0
- ✓Transparency bonus: +2.0 (clear INCI disclosure)
Overall Score91/100
Overall = 50% Efficacy + 50% Safety. No bonus pad — hitting 100 requires both dimensions to be near-perfect. How scoring works →