The INCI Beauty Score - Rating Our Products

We use INCI Beauty, one of the most trusted and leading scanning app for cosmetic products in Europe, to score our products and ensure that they are good for skin and scalp health. INCI Beauty provides a simple and effective way to evaluate the safety and quality of cosmetic products. They guide you through the complex regulations of the beauty industry, helping you make informed decisions when selecting products that are both effective and safe for your health and well-being.

Why should you care about INCI Beauty ratings?

Making good choices as a consumer in the beauty industry can be overwhelmingly complicated if you do not hold a degree in chemistry. Evaluating ingredient lists, safety standards, the newest research on certain ingredients and a product’s effectiveness can be difficult to navigate if you are not an expert in the field. 

This is where INCI Beauty comes in to simplify your life and help you choose the right products. It enables you to make informed and conscious consumer choices while helping us at Biom:logy visualize the safety of our products and the components we use. At Biom:logy, we are committed to using skin-friendly ingredients, and these independent safety ratings support and verify the effectiveness and non-toxicity of our products.

How do beauty apps work?

INCI Beauty is designed to simplify the process of understanding cosmetic ingredients. On INCI Beauty, each product receives an overall score ranging from 0 to 20. Ingredients are identified using a colour-coded system of flowers, ranging from green to red. Essentially, the more red in the flower, the more problematic the ingredient is considered, and conversely, more green indicates a safer ingredient.

How are the scores being calculated?

When INCI Beauty calculates score for cosmetic products, they take an in-depth and balanced approach. Instead of just labelling ingredients as “good” or “bad,” it uses a system that considers the potential risks of each ingredient without being overly harsh. For example, if an ingredient is suspected of being an endocrine disruptor, the product doesn’t automatically get a terrible score. Instead, it’s penalized in a way that reflects the level of concern, not just a blanket judgment.

INCI Beauty also consider how many potentially risky ingredients are in a product, how much of each ingredient is used, and the “cocktail effect” — the idea that multiple ingredients can have a bigger impact together than alone. When multiple ingredients are combined, they can interact with each other and have a stronger or different impact than when they are used alone. The beauty apps take this into account, recognizing that the combined effect of several ingredients might increase the overall risk.

Plus, factors like whether a product has organic certifications or where certain ingredients are listed can add bonuses or penalties to the final score. This method ensures that the ratings you see are fair and give a realistic picture of the product’s safety.

What scores do Biom:logy products have?

On INCI Beauty, Biom:logy products have a minimum rating of 17. Our whole range has been labelled with a green badge in the overall rating, the highest possible rating.

Should you ever have any questions about our products, their ingredients, safety, and beauty app ratings, you are welcome to reach out anytime! Simply contact us at info@biomlogy.com.