Clean Cheeks is a no-rinse foam micellar cleanser for babies, made to lift away dirt, oils, and residue during diaper changes without water or wiping harshly. It's built around botanical extracts including chamomile, arnica montana flower, Mexican hyssop, and witch hazel, combined with gentle micellar cleansing agents. It's designed to be gentle enough for frequent, everyday use on delicate newborn skin. The formula is paraben-free and fragrance-free. Micelles are formulated to remove dirt and impurities without affecting baby's microbiome. To use, pump the foam onto a wipe or clean cloth and gently wipe the area, no water or rinsing required. The brand is Leaping Bunny certified, meaning it does not test on animals. Key Features Contains skin-friendly botanicals: chamomile, arnica montana flower, Mexican hyssop, and witch hazel No-rinse micellar foam cleanser, used with a wipe or cloth Can be used on the face, scalp, hands, and diaper area Paraben-free and fragrance-free formula Leaping Bunny certified cruelty-free TrustScore TrustScore is Birch's proprietary rating, from 0 to 100, built from 50+ signals that reflect what actually matters to parents — safety, materials, recalls, certifications and quality. We don't take paid placements or sponsored rankings, so a score is never influenced by who pays to be seen. This product's TrustScore: 87/100 — weighted across 10 criteria: Preservative System: 91/100 Fragrance-Free Verification: 91/100 Formulation Safety: 91/100 1,4-Dioxane Contamination Risk: 55/100 Recall History: 95/100 Certification Credibility: 92/100 Certification Rigor: 85/100 Transparency & Support: 85/100 Ingredient Transparency: 91/100 Marketing Claim Honesty: 85/100 Specifications Ingredients Water, glycerin, decyl glucoside, cocamidopropyl betaine, disodium laureth sulfosuccinate, sodium cocoyl isethionate, caprylyl glycol, ethylhexyglycerin, lactobacillus ferment, bacillus ferment, dehydroacetic acid, benzyl alcohol, chamomile (chamomilla recutita) extract, witch hazel (hamamelis virginiana) extract, alcohol, propanediol, mexican hyssop (agastache mexicana) extract, propylene glycol, arnica montana flower extract Cruelty-Free Certification Leaping Bunny certified TrustScore breakdown We take what's most important for a product to determine the TrustScore. Here's our research: Preservative System — 91/100The published INCI names caprylyl glycol, ethylhexylglycerin, benzyl alcohol and dehydroacetic acid as the preservative system - none of these are formaldehyde releasers, MI/MCI, or bronopol, the exact hazards this criterion screens for. Fragrance-Free Verification — 91/100Buddle states Clean Cheeks contains no fragrance at all, and the published full INCI list contains no fragrance/parfum entry or hidden masking agent, corroborating the fragrance-free claim at the ingredient level. Formulation Safety — 91/100The published Clean Cheeks ingredient list shows no parabens, no fragrance/parfum, no formaldehyde releasers, no triclosan, and no talc - it is a micellar/botanical formula with caprylyl glycol and dehydroacetic acid as preservatives, meeting the full non-negotiable avoid list. 1,4-Dioxane Contamination Risk — 55/100The published full ingredient list contains disodium laureth sulfosuccinate, an ethoxylated ('-eth') surfactant carrying 1,4-dioxane contamination risk, with no dioxane testing published anywhere for this finished product. Recall History — 95/100We queried the CPSC recall registry's complete corpus of over 10,000 records spanning 1973-2026 and found nothing filed against this brand, with a control confirming the diaper and baby-product category is covered. This is a confirmed clean safety history. Certification Credibility — 92/100Buddle cites Leaping Bunny cruelty-free certification and states its manufacturing facilities are FDA-registered and cGMP-compliant, both specific claims about the finished product line, though no certificate or registration number is published. Certification Rigor — 85/100Leaping Bunny is a directory-resolvable cruelty-free certification, but the safety claims relevant to this criterion - 'dermatologist- and pediatrician-tested' - are unregulated marketing language rather than a named EWG VERIFIED or MADE SAFE listing. Transparency & Support — 85/100The brand discloses that products are manufactured in FDA-registered US facilities under cGMP, but no warranty terms or spare-parts/repair route are published for this cosmetic product, and materials disclosure beyond the ingredient list stops at generic sourcing language. Ingredient Transparency — 91/100The full INCI for Clean Cheeks is published and lists 18 named ingredients, including individually named botanical extracts (chamomile, witch hazel, arnica montana, Mexican hyssop) rather than a vague blend. Marketing Claim Honesty — 85/100Buddle pairs concrete claims (paraben-free, fragrance-free) with the unregulated term 'hypoallergenic' with no supporting method or standard, and marketing elsewhere leans on 'gentle', 'natural' and 'dermatologist-approved' without further substantiation.
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