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Your own session against the one you pinned — and, below that, whole categories and declared ingredient lists compared by what they do rather than what they cost.
Pinned against now. Routine against proposed. A normal month against a lean one. This table does not pick a winner — it shows you what moved, so you can decide whether the movement was the point.
Nothing pinned yet.
Pinning takes a copy of this session as it stands — job, products, tolerance, ceiling, scenario — and holds it still. You then change something, come back, and read what moved. It is for before-and-after: a simplification, a lean month, a new active. Nothing is sent anywhere, and pinning changes nothing about your current session.
A routine is a sequence over time, so the useful question is rarely what it looks like today. Save a version before you change something. A proposal is a named copy: it is not the routine in use until you restore it. The list says what changed, when, and how long you left it alone.
No versions kept yet.
Nothing is saved automatically except right before you restore something, so this list is as full as you make it. A name helps — “before the peel course” is worth six weeks of trying to remember.
Ingredient Intelligence
Paste two INCI lists, or take them from bottles you already entered. Declared-name comparison runs in this browser even when the reference library is down. Evidence receipts still need that library. Neither one produces a winner or a product score. The text you paste is not sent anywhere.
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Checking the public ingredient evidence catalog. Your entered ingredient lists stay in this browser. The declared-name comparison below does not wait for it.
Formula A
0 recognized familiesFormula B
0 recognized familiesDeclared names
Formula A — 0 declared. Formula B — 0 declared. This comparison runs in the browser from the pasted text. It does not need the reference library, and it does not send the paste anywhere.
Exact overlap counts declared names, after normalization. It is not a measure of how either product would perform, and it is not evidence the products are interchangeable. No weighting is applied. A name near the top of a list is not scored higher than a name near the end. U.S. cosmetic labels only require descending order above 1%, and color additives are allowed their own order. The list does not say where 1% falls, so position is not a concentration. A repeated name is counted once in the overlap. The repeat is listed on its own and is not read as a higher amount. Ingredients after “may contain” or “+/-” are shade options, not confirmed members of this tube. They are excluded from the overlap.
Not compared: Concentration, except where a paste itself stated a percentage next to a name. pH, vehicle, texture, packaging and how the formula was made. Whether a recognized family is present at a level that does anything. Whether either product suits a particular person. Price, unless you compare that separately from the bottles you entered.
Alternatives
Add a bottle to the cabinet before looking for anything else on the same step. This desk does not hold a shop catalog.
Categories, by function
Pick a category and read the price bands side by side. Every row leads with the job it does in a routine, then what it costs, then why it is here and what it costs you to keep it. Nothing on this page is a purchase recommendation, nothing links to a shop, and no brand is named — these are patterns, written to be recognized on a shelf.
34 patterns · 23 drugstore · 6 mid · 5 prestige
Standing note
A price band is not an efficacy rating.
Expensive is not better. The bands below sort by what a thing costs on a shelf, and that is all they sort by — a drugstore row is not a starter version of the prestige row beside it, and moving right does not buy mechanism. Where the price does buy something, it is usually texture, packaging or how pleasant the thing is to finish. Fund sunscreen volume and barrier care first; everything after that is optional.
Two ratings, two different questions
They are not comparable and they do not average. A pattern we recognize with complete certainty can rest on thin evidence; a pattern we half-recognize can be a strong active. Rows below name both, separately.
Pick a category
No primary job is set on the Job board, so every row in the catalog is shown. Set a job and this narrows to the rows that job usually touches.
Takes the day off — sunscreen, sweat, whatever the air left — without stripping the skin that has to wear tomorrow’s.
Drugstore / value
Where most jobs are completely served. First-class, not a starter kit.
23 patterns in this band across every category.
Gentle cleanser
Low-foam / cream options for irritation control jobs.
Fragrance-free cream cleanser
Basic ceramide cream cleanser
Drugstore / value · $10–$18 · about 60 uses a month
Barrier support · Supported
Real human evidence, but thinner, shorter or less consistent than the established tier.
High confidence that a bottle sold as this pattern contains it.
Fragrance or irritation risk · Supported
Real human evidence, but thinner, shorter or less consistent than the established tier.
Moderate confidence that a bottle sold as this pattern contains it.
No bottle in your routine fills this slot. An open slot is not automatically a problem — plenty of routines are complete without this one.
Adds a generic line to your routine so the rest of the desk can cost it, stage it and flag it against what you already use. It is a gap to plan against, not a product we think you should own.
Cleanser
AM and/or PM wash. Double-cleanse is optional.
Gentle gel cleanser
Low-foam gel for oilier skin
Drugstore / value · $8–$16 · about 60 uses a month
No bottle in your routine fills this slot. An open slot is not automatically a problem — plenty of routines are complete without this one.
Adds a generic line to your routine so the rest of the desk can cost it, stage it and flag it against what you already use. It is a gap to plan against, not a product we think you should own.
Oil / balm first cleanse
First cleanse for SPF/makeup; optional second water-based cleanse.
Cleansing balm / oil first cleanse
Mineral oil or balm first cleanse
Drugstore / value · $10–$20 · about 30 uses a month
Oil or balm cleanser · Thin
Mostly lab work, small studies or marketing — the effect on real skin is not established.
Name pattern only that a bottle sold as this pattern contains it.
No bottle in your routine fills this slot. An open slot is not automatically a problem — plenty of routines are complete without this one.
Adds a generic line to your routine so the rest of the desk can cost it, stage it and flag it against what you already use. It is a gap to plan against, not a product we think you should own.
Mid aisle
Texture, packaging, sometimes a genuinely different active. Often not.
6 patterns in this band across every category.
Your ceiling of $180 a month usually shops here. That is where the money lands, not where the better answer lives — mixing bands is fine.
Gentle cleanser
Low-foam / cream options for irritation control jobs.
Cream cleanser (mid)
Mid-aisle cream cleanser
Mid aisle · $18–$32 · about 60 uses a month
No bottle in your routine fills this slot. An open slot is not automatically a problem — plenty of routines are complete without this one.
Adds a generic line to your routine so the rest of the desk can cost it, stage it and flag it against what you already use. It is a gap to plan against, not a product we think you should own.
Prestige / clinic retail
Counter and clinic retail. Ask what mechanism changed before assuming one did.
5 patterns in this band across every category.
Cleanser
AM and/or PM wash. Double-cleanse is optional.
Prestige foaming cleanser
Clinic-retail foam
Prestige / clinic retail · $35–$65 · about 60 uses a month
No bottle in your routine fills this slot. An open slot is not automatically a problem — plenty of routines are complete without this one.
Adds a generic line to your routine so the rest of the desk can cost it, stage it and flag it against what you already use. It is a gap to plan against, not a product we think you should own.
The whole spine, in one paragraph
One row per job at your ceiling — the catalog’s own summary of what a complete routine looks like. A shape to check yours against, not a list to buy.