Skincare, measured
What the research actually supports.
Every skincare product makes a claim. Cream Score reads the declared ingredient list and checks it against published human studies — ingredient by ingredient, dose by dose — and returns a number between 0 and 100.
- 37 pigment — where cosmetic ingredients stop
- 43 antioxidant — vitamin E’s ceiling
- 80 collagen — prescription only, above here
How a product is read
The declared ingredient list, in order
Ingredients are listed by descending concentration, so position carries information. An active in third place is not the same product as the same active in twentieth.
Each ingredient against published studies
Effects are tied to human research, on skin, not to laboratory dishes or to what the label promises. Where a claim rests on a study in a test tube, it is recorded as that.
A dose floor, and a ceiling
Below the concentration a study actually used, an ingredient earns nothing — being present is not the same as working. And every effect has a ceiling the evidence will not pass.
What it will not tell you
The single best product
On most concerns, dozens of products reach the top and nothing separates them but price, texture and what else they happen to do. On four of the eight concerns no single product can reach the ceiling at all — pigment takes four. Cream Score shows you that set, and what distinguishes them.
A verdict on what it cannot read
A missing ingredient list is a missing score, not a low one. Where the evidence is thin, the product says so instead of filling the gap with a number.
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Cream Score has been built and adjudicated over eight months, one ingredient at a time. Leave an address and you will hear once, when it opens.
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