Scan a beauty product's ingredients, or paste them here.

How to check a label

1. On iPhone, scan the label with the app. Here, copy the list from the pack or a product page and paste it.
2. Choose Check ingredients. Every name is shown in label order with its role.
3. Confirm anything marked Suggested match: the checker asks rather than guesses.
4. Read the summary: what official sources flag, and what we know nothing about. Each flag links to its source.

What a scan can tell you, and what it cannot

An ingredient list tells you which ingredients are in a product and roughly in what order. It does not give amounts, purity or how the formula was made. So the checker answers three questions honestly: what each ingredient is for, whether an official source says anything about it, and which names it does not know.

It never turns those answers into a score. Two products with the same flags can be quite different, and an ingredient with nothing on record is marked "we don't know", never "fine". Read more in what an ingredient scanner can and cannot tell you.

See a flag in action

Try the Older lotion, banned scents sample above. It contains two scent ingredients that were once common and that the EU has since added to Annex II, the list of substances cosmetics must not contain. The checker marks both as not permitted and links to the entry.

On iPhone, point the camera instead

The app reads the list from a photo of the label, explains each name the same way, and puts the ingredients you have chosen to avoid first. Your scans stay on your phone.