thursday 24 july · good morning
Your shelf is in a good place.
receipts · this week
Chemical sunscreens are toxic.
Overblown. Daily use cut invasive melanoma by 73% in the Nambour trial. Skipping it is the actual risk.
12 products · watched daily
Your shelf.
Your products
on watch · 3 products
Only products with an open flag sit here. Silence on the other nine means we are watching them and have nothing worth telling you.
shelf-life clock
Sensitisation curve
heldAllergen load across everything you own, over 24 months.
netting · retire the double-up
reading the label
Niacinamide 10% + Zinc
- Found the label
- Read 14 lines
- Matched every line to the graph
- Dose-checked each one
read · niacinamide serum
Niacinamide 10% + Zinc
The Ordinary · scanned just now
shape · word · source
Every line, marked
claim vs the list
quiet by default
Watch.
this month
1 findingWatch coverage
honestTwo products have no readable INCI, so we cannot promise silence means safe for them. We would rather show the gap.
Vitamin C serum
buy signal$38$52
Lowest in the 8 months we have watched, and it still scores clear. Not a marked-up "sale" - we checked it against the trailing median.
limit order · armed
EOFY sales are ~18 days out. We will hold.
connected · read-only
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Read-only. We mirror your card so you can scan in store. We never touch your points, and we do not sell what is on it.
About two purchases at your pace. No countdown, no nudge to spend.
ready when you are
available boxes
honest worth
answers, not verdicts
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Informational only, not medical advice. Every sentence is tagged by what backs it.
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Receipts.
The day's scare, answered from the graph. Screenshot-ready.
"Chemical sunscreens are toxic."
The most protective product on an Australian shelf. Daily use cut invasive melanoma by 73%. Skipping it is the actual risk.
Nambour RCT, HR 0.27 · AS/NZS 2604 · TGA
"Phenoxyethanol is a neurotoxin."
Capped at 1% in the EU, and that trace is exactly what lets a formula skip harsher preservatives. The scare is about swallowing it.
EU Annex V, ≤ 1%
"Every chemical filter is fine."
The backlash overshoots too. Oxybenzone is restricted above 2.2% on the body. Dose still decides, both ways.
SCCS/1622/20 · EU 2022/2195
the ingredient dex
Show the working
A signed card. It deep-links to the evidence and cannot be re-skinned into a scarier verdict.
Two on the shelf?
The one kinder to your skin wins, with the reasoning shown.
The 3 it touches
homosalateRanked by how close each sits to the 1% line. Only one is above it, and your SPF 50 is not on this list.
A cheaper twin
same doseMatched on the active that matters, not on marketing. Same working dose of niacinamide, less per milligram.
Your Level 2 box
read honestlySmaller than the birthday box, and the gap between the two figures is wider: one mini carries a fragrance you react to, and one has no readable list at all.
the four minis · tap to read one
We do not count the toner in the honest figure. Without a list we cannot score it, and we will not price what we cannot read.
What is in the box
read honestlyThat is what these volumes cost at full-size RRP, not resale cash. Minis rarely resell, so read it as what you are holding.
the six minis · tap to read one
Four of the six score clear for you. Two carry a fragrance you react to, and one duplicates what you own, so the honest figure lands nearer $90.
How we value a box
show the workingFull-size RRP ÷ full-size volume × the sample's volume, always shown with a per-mL figure, the same way we cost an active. Worth, never a hyped-up value sticker.
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