Know what's really in it — calmly.
Scan any product and get one honest verdict, scored against your skin — not a generic red flag that scares everyone the same way.
You posted four times looking for someone to build Phase 1. Here it is — designed, animated and tappable — built around the one thing Yuka and the fear-based scanners get wrong.
A widely-used preservative that keeps creams from growing bacteria and mould.
Water-based night creams need a preservative — this one is gentle and effective at low levels.
Low concern. You haven't flagged it, and it's well below the EU 1% limit. Not a reason to skip this.
Live demo — scan → your verdict → decode an ingredient → better matches. Auto-playing; tap a dot on the live build to jump.
Scan, then a verdict in three honest signals
No wall of red. One personalized score, the few things that actually matter for this person, and a clear way to decode anything they're unsure about.
1 · Scan or search
Barcode or text search resolves the exact product from public databases — no typing chemical names.
2 · Your verdict
One score — Good fit / Worth a look / Not your fit — computed against the person's own skin profile.
3 · Decode + swap
Tap any ingredient for plain English, and get rules-based better matches in the same category.
The same cream. Two different verdicts.
This is the wedge the fear-based scanners can't copy: the score is built around the person, not a one-size-fits-all global rating. Watch the exact same product land differently for two real skin profiles.
Fragrance-free and barrier-friendly. The niacinamide is a plus for dry skin and nothing hits her avoid-list.
Rich texture and a coconut-derived emollient that can clog acne-prone skin — so it's flagged, calmly, for Jordan only.
No fear, no blanket red. Just an honest answer for the person holding the bottle — the calm, personalized layer Yuka, OnSkin and INCI Beauty leave on the table.
A skin profile that powers everything
A warm, Headspace-style quiz — not a medical form — turns "calm, not fear" into an actual feature. Three taps and every future verdict is theirs.
Plain English, with the receipts
Tap any ingredient and get three answers — what it is, why it's in the product, and whether it matters for you — sourced from public INCI / CosIng data with confidence shown, never scaremongering.
A form of vitamin B3 that supports the skin barrier and can even out tone.
A workhorse active — gentle, well-studied, and plays well with most other ingredients.
A plus. For dry, fragrance-sensitive skin like yours, this helps rather than irritates.
Your Phase 1, scoped and dated
Not a vague pitch — a fixed-cost build plan with the defensible data strategy and the admin-review concept that separates this from "another ingredient scanner."
Lock the name, sage/honey palette and Fraunces/Inter type system. Figma-grade clickable prototype of all four core screens.
Barcode + text search wired to Open Beauty Facts; product detail screen rendering the real INCI list.
Skin-profile quiz + the rules-based, per-user verdict. The wedge, shipped — no ML needed for v1.
Per-ingredient cards with confidence + the rules-based "better match in your market" strip.
Lightweight queue to approve user-submitted products, then iOS/Android beta in TestFlight + Play.
Defensible data strategy
The moat isn't the UI — it's a clean, growing product graph that the fear-scanners don't share.
Every approved submission compounds the catalog — a data flywheel competitors started years ahead but can't license away from you.
A real identity — not a wireframe
A starting brand system so you can see the product instead of describing it. Name candidates, the calm palette, and a type pairing built for trust.
Name candidates
"Beauty Transparency" is your working title — these are directions to make it ownable.
Palette
Trustworthy-yet-calm — deliberately not the fear-red of rival scanners.
Type system
You described Phase 1.
We built it.
Instead of hiring a generic dev to ship another forgettable scanner, start from a clickable product designed around the calm, personalized angle that wins. Reply and you can tap through your own idea this week.