
Think Dirty – Shop Clean 4+
Learn Beauty Ingredients ^_^
Think Dirty Inc.
Designed for iPhone
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Think Dirty is the easiest way to learn about the potentially toxic ingredients in your skincare, cosmetics and personal care products. It’s an independent source that allows you to compare products as you shop. Scan the barcode, and Think Dirty will give you easy-to-understand product information. Track harmful chemicals in your cosmetics and personal care products, and find cleaner, safer alternatives to enhance your skincare routine.
• Search by Keyword or Barcode Scanning: Access over 850,000 cosmetics and personal care products and learn about potentially harmful ingredients and carcinogens.
• Real-Time Rating (Premium): Instantly scan beauty, skincare, cosmetic, and household products for immediate ratings—no waiting required!
• Personalized Ingredient Preferences (Premium): Pre-select allergens and ingredient preferences for a personalized shopping experience. You'll also receive alerts if carcinogens or harmful ingredients are detected in your viewed products.
• Search by Ingredient (Premium): This option unlocks detailed information about any cosmetic or skincare ingredient, its health impact, sources, and products that contain it.
• Search by Curated Categories (Premium): Access curated specialty skincare and cosmetic lists, such as Mineral Sunscreens, SLES-Free Skincare, and Vegan Makeup.
• Dirty Meter®: Get comprehensive ratings, detailed information on ingredients, certifications, and health impacts, and easy-to-understand insights.
• My Bathroom Rating: Track and rate your existing skincare and cosmetic products to see how “clean” your bathroom is and monitor your progress.
• Upvote Non-Rated Products: Help expand our database by upvoting non-rated products and encourage brands to get their skincare and cosmetic items reviewed.
• Shopping Lists: Save your favourite products and simplify skincare and cosmetic shopping.
• Shop Now: You can purchase products directly from Amazon, Sephora, The Detox Market, Well.ca, and other major retailers.
• UPC Submission: Are we missing a product? Use your device's camera to scan its barcode and capture the list of ingredients with OCR, then submit it to us. For registered users who submit products, we will thank you with a discount code to use our beauty box subscription and notify you once they are in our database.
As mentioned in:
Bloomberg, New York Times, O Magazine, Today's Show, NPR, Fast Company, Huffington Post, TED Blog, Allure Magazine, The Atlantic, PSFK, New York Magazine, Buzzfeed, Consumer Reports ShopSmart Magazine, Global News, Toronto Star, City TV, CTV, App Central, Brit + Co, Refinery 29, Telegraph, The Guardian, Design Taxi
"What changed my routine and really my life is the Think Dirty app." - Ruby Rose
App of the Day 2021
Fast Company World Changing Ideas Awards - North America - Overall - 2020
25+ Apps To Make Your Everyday Life Easier – TED Blog
7 New Beauty Apps You Need to Download Now – Allure Magazine
The Beauty And Fashion Apps You Need To Download, ASAP – Glamour Magazine UK
“It helps me make informed choices on products that I am bringing home.”
– TED Blog Staff, Kyle Shearer
"Tse's quest for greater transparency is personal. Her mother is a breast cancer survivor, so she's sensitive to hidden dangers in the products around us."
– Fast Co. Exist
"Think Dirty miiiight be the best app ever" – Grist
"An App That Helps You Find the Safest Make-up."
– The Atlantic
"With a tool like Think Dirty, consumers can help find and promote good companies that are using non-toxic ingredients. You shouldn’t have to be a toxicologist to know how to find safer products."
– Janet Nudelman, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
As a small team, we diligently work to accommodate the overwhelmingly positive amount of users' submissions (especially from our international users) to our database.
We appreciate constructive feedback. Please email us at questions@thinkdirtyapp.com if you have comments or suggestions.
What’s New
Version 4.14.2
Bugs squashed, app enhanced — enjoy a Think Dirty experience that's as smooth as your pumpkin latte.
Ratings and Reviews
Beautiful but limited
This app is beautifully designed and a breeze to use. I've learned a lot from it already. The problem is there are very few international products on the list (outside of the US), and my submissions still aren't added even though I've been scanning a lot. There's really no excuse for this if they typically have the same offending ingredients that you need to look out for in order to rate the products. I would also love if you made a sister app that was all about foods and beverages!
Developer Response ,
Thanks for your review. We are sorry that you couldn’t find the product that you submitted. We constantly try to add more products to the database and rely on our users to tell us which are most in-demand. That being said, we receive thousands of submissions weekly and it can take time for the products to be input into our database. If you email us at questions@thinkdirtyapp.com, we will try our best to add your products.
Wealth of knowledge
Phenomenal app. Got recommended this app from a podcast. Finally gave it a go. I found about half of my products on it, being based in Australia. I submitted the other half (mainly through a series of photos) and was gobsmacked to see the results were up the next day! I found that it’s important to distinguish the Aussie version of a product (via its barcode) to say its international version as the regulations may differ. Overall, it seemed most of my products were green or yellow. But two came up red and I loved that I could research alternatives and save them to my “clean products” list for future reference. I’ve already sourced one clean alternative, which I’m thrilled about. The ingredient database is extensive and rich with information and references. Being able to’flag’ certain ingredients as a user is also helpful. I’m confident I may be able to solve which ingredient(s) are behind my lifelong sunscreen allergy (contact dermatitis). I’m incredibly impressed by the work the developers have put into the app. This is a medical revolution that traditional healthcare is yet to embrace.
Suggestion: separate store notifications from user notifications. I received 3-4 “salesy” notifications at once about making a purchase from the store which was a bit much.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for sharing this feedback with us. You just made our day! Kindly leave a review for us here as well: https://g.page/r/Cfxm7XMiSiOvEBM/review 🥰
Waste of time!
I’m in Australia so I fully anticipated that there would be a limited selection of Aussie products that you have reviewed. I didn’t expect however that it would take over 2 months for products to be added to the database after I have gone to the effort of scanning it, taking photos, editing the spelling mistakes in the ingredient lists because the software has read the label incorrectly.
Then you have the audacity to send me annoying notifications for products that I can’t buy because they are in America. If you are going to tout yourselves as a global authority on natural products then have the foresight to tailor your advertising pitch to local markets. No one wants to wait a month for overseas shipping when they can go to the local health food store and get a better product anyway.
I was recommended this app by a friend so I gave it the benefit of doubt that it would improve but to be honest I’ve just been disappointed from the get go.
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The developer, Think Dirty Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Purchases
- Location
- Contact Info
- Search History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Search History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- Think Dirty Inc.
- Size
- 52.3 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 All trademarks are registered for Think Dirty Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Think Dirty $4.99
- Think Dirty Premium $5.99
- Think Dirty Premium $49.99
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- Think Dirty Premium $49.99