The short version
beautydew labs is built and run by a one-person team, founded in 2026. There is no content farm and no ghostwritten reviews behind it — just a database, a parser, and a set of rules we publish and stick to. Our job is to explain what ingredients do, who they may suit, what deserves caution, and how those ingredients show up across skincare, haircare, and body care. We started with Korean beauty because those ingredient lists are especially difficult to read outside Korea; Korean names sit beside standard INCI names so both are searchable here.
How the data works
Product ingredient lists are parsed from the labels brands and retailers publish, then matched to a standard INCI ingredient database. Every product page shows its sources, and the formula scanner runs the same parser on any label you paste. Prices come from real retailer offers — we never invent a price, a rating, or an offer, and pages simply show nothing where we have no data. Some product links are affiliate links; they never change what ranks where, and paid "Sponsored" placements are always labeled as such.
Derived numbers follow the same rule: dupe candidates are ranked by shared label ingredients you can verify yourself, and routine warnings cite the interaction they're based on — checkable arithmetic, not invented scores.
Products Beautydew physically receives for native checkout follow a separate sourcing and receiving standard. Research-only catalog entries and external retailer links do not inherit that claim.
Editorial standards
Researched ingredient profiles state their evidence level, cite their sources, and show when they were last reviewed. Anything AI-assisted is labeled as AI-generated on the page. Safety-adjacent tools like the formula scanner (pregnancy, fungal acne, baby-safe use, and general safety) cite the lists they check against, and our Learn articles carry references you can follow to the underlying research. Every source we rely on is collected in one public bibliography, grouped by type, with the surfaces that cite each one — so you can audit us in one place. None of this is medical advice — for medical questions, ask a dermatologist.
Corrections
Parsers make mistakes and labels change. If a product page shows the wrong ingredient list, a stale price, or an ingredient profile says something the cited source doesn't support, tell us — we'll check it against the source, fix what's wrong, and the page's reviewed date will reflect the update. The fastest path is the "Report wrong info" button right on the ingredient, product, or checker page itself — it flags that exact record directly, no separate form needed. Reports from people who spot errors are the fastest way this database gets better.
Contact
For corrections, questions, or anything else, use the contact form or email jaewonlee9642@gmail.com.