Ingredient Checker

The first, and often one of the toughest parts of using any ingredient checker, is finding the correct list of ingredients that a product contains.

If you’ve got a product in mind, you can likely find it’s ingredients on the website of the brand that creates it. For example, if I was looking for the ingredients of the Good Molecules Niacinamide Brightening Toner, the first place I would look is the official Good Molecules website.

If you can’t find the ingredients on the brand’s official site, or if they don’t have their own site, we suggest searching popular retailers (Ulta, YesStyle, Amazon) for the product. These sites will often have the ingredients for a product on its’ listing.

SkinSort also has its own product database, which tracks the ingredients in over 5,000 different cosmetic products. Use our search bar (click the menu icon if you’re on mobile) to search our database. There’s a good chance we’ve got your product in it!

For the purposes of this guide, we’ll use the ingredients list for that Niacinamide Brightening Toner from Good Molecules:

Water/Aqua/Eau, Glycerin, Niacinamide, Butylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, 3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid, Betaine, Arbutin, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Extract, Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract, Astragalus Membranaceus Root Extract, Rehmannia Glutinosa Root Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Ethylhexylglycerin, Glyceryl Polyacrylate, Carbomer, Tromethamine, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Dextrin

After we’ve found the ingredients list for a product, we’re ready to move onto the next step! 🎉

With your ingredients found, simply paste them into the analyzer at the top of this page, and hit the “Analyze Ingredients” button!

After a couple of seconds, you’ll be directed to a new page. It should look something like this:

Now that your analysis has been run, you’re free to look through all the details!

Start scrolling down the page for a complete breakdown of the ingredients list that you analyzed. We start things off in the “Product Info” section. Here, you’ll be able to get some useful and commonly needed information - such as whether or not the ingredients list contains fragrances, sulfates, fungal acne triggers, and more!

Here’s what the Product Info looks like for the ingredients list we entered in the previous step:

Continuing on, you’ll see our Ingredient Details section. This section is designed to highlight the benefits, concerns, and notable ingredients contained within a product! We’ll tell you which ingredients are causing each item, and you can click on it to learn more.

Here’s what that looks like with our sample analysis:

After taking in the ingredient details, scroll a bit further to reach our Ingredients List Explained section. Here, you’ll be able to see more details about every ingredient in the product, and you can even click on the ingredient itself to learn more about it!

If you’ve added liked or disliked ingredients to your SkinSort account, you’ll also see an icon on the ingredients list here to let you know.

Here’s what an explained ingredients list looks like:

We hope this has helped give you a better understanding of how to use our ingredient checker!

If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to get in touch with us! We love helping our users achieve their skin goals 💕