Beauty Elixir

Free acne-safe ingredient lab

Will it break you out?

Paste any skincare or makeup ingredient list. In one second you'll see every pore-clogging ingredient and fungal-acne trigger in it, even with typos.

Or see a ready-made scan: CeraVe Moisturizing Cream · CeraVe Daily Moisturizing Lotion · CeraVe PM Facial Moisturizing Lotion

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Pore-Clog Checker

Get comedogenic ratings and fungal-acne triggers for any product, plus a clean score and safer swaps.

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Can I Mix…?

Choose two actives and get an instant verdict with the AM/PM timing and layering order.

741 combinations explained 03

Routine Builder

Answer five taps and get a 7-day AM/PM plan for your skin and your city's weather.

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Hair Porosity Test

Find out whether your hair is low, medium or high porosity, and get the right oils and wash schedule.

8 questions, shareable result 05

Perfume Spray Calculator

Find out how many sprays to use for the office, a date or summer heat, and where to put each one.

Plus a perfume dupe finder 06

Batch Code Checker

Find out when your MAC, Clinique or Estée Lauder product was made, and whether it has expired.

Plus a PAO expiry calculator

Worst pore-cloggers to watch for

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Isopropyl Myristate5/5 · FA Isopropyl Isostearate5/5 · FA Myristyl Myristate5/5 · FA Isocetyl Stearate5/5 · FA Ethylhexyl Stearate5/5 · FA Laureth-45/5 Oleth-35/5 Triticum Vulgare Germ Oil5/5 · FA
Can I mix with

Most-asked “can I mix” questions

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Niacinamide + Vitamin C Safe to mix Retinol + Glycolic Acid Use with caution Retinol + Vitamin C Use with caution Niacinamide + Salicylic Acid Great combo Hyaluronic Acid + Retinol Great combo Benzoyl Peroxide + Vitamin C Don't mix Retinol + Salicylic Acid Use with caution Azelaic Acid + Niacinamide Great combo

Luxury nose, student budget

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Creed Aventus ₹30,000+ ↓ Armaf Club de Nuit Intense Man ₹2,000 – ₹3,500 85% match Maison Francis Kurkdjian Baccarat Rouge 540 ₹28,000+ ↓ Armaf Club de Nuit Untold ₹2,500 – ₹4,000 88% match Dior Sauvage EDP ₹11,000+ ↓ Maison Alhambra Salvo ₹1,500 – ₹2,500 85% match Dior Sauvage Elixir ₹14,000+ ↓ Lattafa Asad ₹1,800 – ₹3,000 75% match Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille ₹28,000+ ↓ Maison Alhambra Tobacco Touch ₹1,500 – ₹2,500 82% match Kilian Angels' Share ₹24,000+ ↓ Lattafa Khamrah ₹2,000 – ₹3,500 85% match

Routines for your city's weather

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Oily skin · Mumbai Dry skin · Delhi Combination skin · Bangalore Oily skin · Chennai Sensitive skin · Pune Dry skin · Jaipur Oily skin · Kolkata Normal skin · Hyderabad Dry skin · Dubai Oily skin · Singapore Dry skin · London Combination skin · New York

From the journal

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Product guides

Fungal Acne Safe Moisturizers: We Scanned 26 Popular Creams

We ran 26 popular moisturisers through our ingredient scanner. Which ones have no known Malassezia triggers, which popular ones do, and how to check your own.

 Safety

How to Read Cosmetic Batch Codes and PAO Symbols

A batch code tells you when a product was made; the open-jar symbol tells you how long it lasts once opened. How to read both, with MAC and Estée Lauder examples.

 Ingredient science

Copper Peptides and Vitamin C: Why They're Usually Kept Apart

Copper peptides and vitamin C are two popular anti-ageing actives, and the standard advice is to keep them in separate routines. The reasons, and how to do it.

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