Shopsmart

Concerned about cosmetics? 3 apps can help

Reading teeny ingredients lists is tough, especially when you’re out shopping. These three free apps make it easy to evaluate a product’s ingredients and narrow down your choices. Just scan a product’s bar code to see the ingredients it contains a…

Allure

8 New Beauty Apps You Need to Download Now

Before your mind gets stuck in the gutter, this app determines how toxic your beauty products are—a pretty brilliant idea, since ingredient details aren’t always easy to find. Scan a product’s barcode or search the database by product name; the app ranks

Apple Daily

幾多毒素搽喺身?用app查吓化妝品

女士們每日用在皮膚的產品,例如護膚品、化妝品、沐浴用品等,動輒有十多種,你知道當中有多少產品含刺激性或潛在毒素嗎?應用程式 Think Dirty聲稱可以測化妝品毒性。記者測試數款化妝及潔膚護理產品,部分國際品牌致癌性竟爆表,究竟這些app可信度有多高?

Cosmopolitan

‘Think Dirty’ app reveals toxic beauty buys

Miranda Kerr is a big fan of using natural beauty products, so what’s the betting she’d have some fun with this clever detoxing app? Maybe you consider yourself a bit of a beauty ingredients whiz; you can reel of the benefits of hyaluronic acid…

New York

Lab Rat: Your Beauty Products Are Pretty Dirty

But when I stumbled upon the new beauty app ThinkDirty, I realized it was time to pay more attention to what I’m putting on my face. The app allows you to scan the bar code on a beauty product — and then spits out a ranking based on the amount of cancer-causing substances in the product, ranking it on a scale from 0 to 10, with 10 being the most “dirty” in a totally nonsexual way.

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This Simple App Tells If Your Beauty Products Contain Beastly Chemicals

At the end of the night when I suds up my face, I worry about removing all of my waterproof mascara. I’m not thinking about whether my skin-cleansing pads might make me sick. After all, I bought them at the local drugstore, not on the black market—and toxic chemicals are what the FDA is supposed to protect me from, right?