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Ingredient Check

The same ingredient is build-up on a wash-and-go and the entire point of a silk-press serum. A checker that does not ask how you wear your hair is guessing, so this one asks.

Rule groups
28
Score
0–10, weighted by position on the label
Context
Your style, your hair, what you are using it for

Position on the label is information

An ingredients list is ordered by quantity. Something in the first three lines is most of what is in the bottle; the same word at the end is a trace. The score is weighted accordingly, so a heavy silicone at the top and a heavy silicone at the bottom do not read the same.

Context changes the verdict

Before it scores, the checker knows what the product is for and how you wear your hair. A heavy sealing oil is the right answer for braids and the wrong one for a wash-and-go, and a protein-heavy treatment is a rescue for one head and stiffness for another. The verdict changes with the context, which is the only way it can be right.

Being straight with you

What Ingredient Check does not do

Every product page on the internet has this section. Most of them hide it.

  • It reads what you paste. A mistyped or partial list gives a partial answer.
  • It is not medical or allergy advice, and it cannot see anything the manufacturer left off the label.
  • A score is a fit for how you wear your hair, not a safety rating.

An illustration of the screen, drawn from the app’s design tokens. BLK GLO is not released yet, so this is not a screenshot and does not pretend to be one.

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