The guide

Learn the site in
seven short steps

From your first answer to a skin dashboard that tracks your skin over months. Every step shows the real screen and ends with something you can try right away — read it, or let the audio walk you through.

7 steps~6 min readaudio on every step

Step 1

One site, built around your skin

DermApproved grades skincare on published evidence, condition by condition — and once it knows a little about your skin, every page rearranges itself around you.

There are three layers to the site, and this guide walks them in order: telling it about your skin, browsing with grades that are actually yours, and building a dashboard that tracks your skin over months.

Each step below shows you the real screen and ends with something you can try immediately. The whole tour reads in about six minutes — or let the audio walk you through each step.

The DermApproved homepage on a phone: “Everything for your skin support, in one place”, with the two-question quick-start below the headline. — The front door. The two questions under the headline are a working shortcut into everything this guide covers.

Step 2

Tell it about your skin

Everything starts with your Skin Profile — a couple of minutes of honest answers that the whole site then works from.

Your skin type, the concerns you care about, how sensitive you are, and anything that has reacted on you. Four answers are enough to switch personalization on; the rest sharpen it whenever you feel like it. There are no wrong answers, and you can change any of them later.

One thing worth knowing before you type anything: your answers are saved in your browser, not sent to a server. The lock note on the page means exactly what it says.

Start your profile → about a minute for the four essentials

The intake tells you upfront what each answer unlocks — verdicts, badges, prefilled tools.

Step 3

Read the grades while you browse

With a profile in place, browsing stops being generic: every product card carries a grade for your concerns.

The badges read like “A+ for your eczema” — a per-concern grade computed from the evidence behind each ingredient, not from popularity. Tap any badge and the site explains itself: which ingredients earned the grade and what the studies say.

When your concerns disagree about a product, you see both labels, and the safety warning always outranks the compliment. Anything on your avoid list is filtered out entirely, by ingredient list — not by marketing claims.

Browse your graded picks → every condition, ranked for that condition

A graded product list: each card carries two badges reading “A+ for your eczema” and “A+ for your dryness”. — Maya’s view of a condition page — her two concerns, graded on every card.

Step 4

Your Skin Dashboard

Your Skin Dashboard is home base: one page that gathers everything the site has worked out about your skin.

The top is who you are — type, concerns, the preferences the site is filtering by. Below it, the dashboard assembles itself: your concerns with their current best options, one short note worth knowing today, your routine, your shelf, and trends from anything you track.

It is a living page. Come back in a week and the note has moved on, the trends have new points, and anything you saved or logged is reflected. The more the site knows, the more the dashboard fills in.

Open your Skin Dashboard → it builds itself from your profile

The dashboard’s hero — everything below it is filtered to what you told the site.

Step 5

Track what's actually changing

This is where the site earns its keep over months, not minutes: log what your skin is doing, and trends appear.

The tools section has the same severity scores clinics use — for eczema, acne, hives, psoriasis and more — plus a flare diary, a photo tracker and patch-test timers. Pick the one or two that fit your skin; nothing expects daily homework.

After a few entries, your dashboard starts plotting trends and telling you what direction things are moving. A follow-up appointment that starts with a chart and dated photos is a different conversation from one that starts with memory.

Pick a tracker → severity scores, diary, photos, timers

The measurements section of a skin dashboard: itch score, hives activity and POEM, each with a sparkline reading “Trending down”. — Six months of Maya’s logging, plotted. “Trending down” here is the good direction.

The tools hub keeps your corner at the top — what you use, and what is due.

Step 6

When products aren't the answer

Sometimes products aren’t the answer — and this site will actually tell you that.

Every major condition has a therapy guide: what genuinely works over the counter, when prescriptions enter the picture, and what a dermatologist is likely to be asked at the appointment. It is education in the order a clinician thinks, not a sales page.

Alongside the pathways sits a library of real questions — the ones people actually ask mid-treatment — answered with sources. Press the slash key (or ⌘K) on any page and search it directly.

See the therapy guides → and press / anywhere to search answers

The eczema therapy guide: “from the moisturiser that genuinely is first-line to the biologics”, with the education-not-medical-advice note. — A therapy guide — honest about where self-care ends and a clinician begins.

Step 7

Your data, your account

Everything you build here lives in your browser, private by default. A free account is the safety net.

My Library shows every piece of data the site keeps for you — what is stored, where it is used, and how to export or delete it. That inventory exists whether or not you ever create an account.

The account adds three things: your dashboard survives browser clean-ups, it follows you to any device you sign in on, and your progress photos are backed up. It takes a minute, and the amber “not backed up” chip on your dashboard goes quiet for good.

Create your free account → backup, sync, photos — one minute

My Library: “every piece of data this site keeps for you, in one inventory”, with the create-free-account note. — The full inventory of what is yours — and the one-button way to make it durable.

Want to try it before it’s yours?

The screens above belong to Maya — one of six fictional people you can be for an afternoon. Test Drive loads months of sample data into every page and tool, touches nothing of your own, and resets when you leave.

Take a Test Drive → or start your own file →