Fungal Acne
Ingredient Checker

Check if an ingredient list contains fungal acne (malassezia) triggers 🍄

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Our Methodology

We're dedicated to creating the most comprehensive and up-to-date fungal acne checker.

Our checker is designed to help you detect fungal acne triggers in any cosmetic product.

What it detects

There are a ton of ingredients that can potentially trigger fungal acne. To be completely honest, it's hard to say exactly which ingredients will affect your skin.

This is because your skin chemistry, routine, and lifestyle all play a role in malassezia folliculitis. We did our best to catch any potential triggers based on existing research and ingredient origins.

For example, you will see all fatty acid derived ingredients marked as not fungal acne safe. Despite a lack of research on every single ingredient, we flag this because malassezia feeds on fatty acids with carbon chains 12-14.

Limitations

As transparency is important to us, we want to note the limitations of our fungal acne ingredient checker.

It's impossible to build a 100% accurate checker, as there's currently insufficient research surrounding many ingredients. Cosmetic products contain complicated ingredient combinations and formulations and it's not possible to detect with certainty which ones malassezia will thrive on.

As we mentioned before, our fungal acne checker is designed to catch all potential triggers. This does not mean all of these ingredients will cause/feed your malassezia, as everyone's skin and routine has unique chemistry.

We are always working to improve the accuracy of our checker and the research that backs it. However, we always recommend doing further research about a product and its ingredients.

If you notice something that needs updating, please let us know by sending [email protected] an email.

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What is fungal acne?

Fungal Acne (Malassezia Folliculitis) is different from hormonal or common acne because it is caused by a yeast (aka fungus) that infects your skin follicles. This yeast may already be living on your skin and only becomes a problem when it gets out of control.

Often times, fungal acne looks like many red bumps. It tends to be more common to develop fungal acne on the body than the face, although it can appear anywhere.

What are fungal acne triggers?

Our ingredient checker has been designed to detect fungal acne triggers. These are ingredients that are more likely to promote the growth of malassezia folliculitis.

Common examples of fungal acne triggers are esters, squalene, and fatty acids. It's best to avoid these ingredients if you're experiencing fungal acne, and our analyzer will help you do so.

How to use the Fungal Acne Checker

Here's a step-by-step tutorial on how to use our fungal acne ingredient checker ✨

Step 1 - Find the ingredient list

To use our FA ingredient checker, you'll first need to find the ingredients of the product you want to check.

Most cosmetic products have their ingredients listed on their official website. You can often find the ingredients of a product listed on popular sites such as Sephora, Ulta, YesStyle, or Amazon.

There's also a chance we already have the product you're curious about stored in our product database, so be sure to do a search there!

Step 2 - Paste the ingredients

With the ingredients list copied, come back to our analyzer and enter them in! Next, hit the big "Check for fungal acne triggers" button. Our algorithm will get to work and see if it can find any fungal acne triggers.

Paste in the ingredients and hit the button!

Step 3 - Read the results

After hitting the analyze button, you'll be taken to a page with easy to understand info about the ingredients that you entered. Take a look through to get a general idea of what the ingredients do.

If we find FA triggers, you'll see this warning

Step 4 - See which ingredients are triggers

On the analysis results page, scroll down to view a complete list of all of the ingredients you analyzed. Potential fungal acne triggers are highlighted in red for your convenience. You can click an ingredient's name to learn more about what it does!

Detailed ingredient list breakdown

Wrap up

We hope that our fungal acne checker helps you eliminate triggers from your routine! Get in touch if you have any feedback regarding it.

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