About
The skincare industry has a transparency problem. Marketing budgets dwarf research spending, “dermatologist recommended” is often a paid line, and it is genuinely hard to tell whether a product works or simply went viral. DermApproved exists to cut through that — with evidence rather than advertising.
Honest assessment is only half the job. The other half is helping you find the right product for your skin, and knowing what to do when products aren’t the answer. So this isn’t only a review site — it’s a system for looking after your skin over time. Tell us about your skin once, and the whole site reshapes itself around it.
Four things most sites do separately, built to work as one — and all free.
Every product is analysed ingredient by ingredient against published research, scored on a transparent formula, and written up as a real editorial assessment — not a reworded press release. 11,656 products from 792 brands so far, growing every week.
Set your skin type and concerns once and every review, list and tool adapts — flagging what fits your skin, what needs care, and what to avoid. Add what you already own to your Shelf and the site works around your real routine.
A routine finder, conflict checker, ingredient decoder, skin-cycling planner, the severity scores clinicians use, symptom diaries and more — free, instant, and no account required. More are in development.
522 deeply researched, fully cited articles and 312 ingredient references — the context behind the reviews, for when you want the "why" and not just the "which".
The fastest way to understand it is to see it working: take a test drive with six months of sample data already in place.
Not every product earns the attention it gets. We apply friendly scepticism where it’s warranted — always assessing the formula on its merits, never punching down, and always giving credit where it’s earned.
No brand can pay to be listed, featured, or ranked higher. Every product enters the same pipeline against the same criteria.
We don’t take free products in exchange for coverage, and we don’t soften an assessment for a partnership. The score is the score.
“Revolutionary”, “breakthrough”, “miracle” — you won’t find those here. We describe what ingredients do, with evidence levels and mechanisms.
Your profile, shelf and diaries save on your device, and back up to your free account only if you choose to create one. They are never sold, shared, or used to target you.
Where we use affiliate links, they are disclosed and they never influence a score, a grade, or a ranking.
Everything above, explained properly — plus how to reach us.