TruHue™TruHue™TruHue's 856-ingredient acne audit checks every ingredient by position, flags pore-cloggers and irritants, and tells you if the product is safe for acne-prone skin.
Copy the full ingredient list from any product page — Sephora, Ulta, Target, Amazon — and paste it above.
Paste any product's full ingredient list (INCI). TruHue checks each ingredient against an 856-compound database of known comedogens and irritants, weighs each match by its position on the label (top ingredients count more because INCI rules list by concentration), scans for supportive actives like niacinamide and salicylic acid, and produces a single verdict: YAY (safe), OKAY (proceed with caution), or NAY (contains significant pore-cloggers).
INCI rules require ingredients to be listed in descending order of concentration. An ingredient at position #3 is present at much higher concentration than the same ingredient at position #25. TruHue's audit assigns 3× weight to the top 30% of ingredients, 2× to the middle 30%, and 1× to the bottom 40% — because a comedogen at high concentration is a bigger risk than a trace amount.
TruHue's database is sourced primarily from Fulton and Kligman's published comedogenicity research, cross-referenced against the Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR), INCIDecoder, and SkinSort. Ratings that lack published support are marked as disputed with reduced confidence scores.
No. This tool screens ingredients against published comedogenicity data. Individual skin responses vary. If you have persistent acne, consult a dermatologist. This audit helps you make more informed choices, but it is not medical advice.
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