How Beauty Concierge Makes Money — And What It Never Changes

Any app that recommends things you can buy owes you a straight answer about how it gets paid. Here is ours, with no rounding in our favour.

How we make money

• Amazon affiliate links. Some product links — "Shop on Amazon", "Buy again" — earn us a small commission if you buy through them. Every one of those links carries a disclosure next to it, and it is spelled out in the privacy policy too.
• Ads on the free web app. The free web version carries ads in the community feed. They are labelled as ads, and they are not mixed into your scan result, your shelf or your insights.
• A Premium tier, eventually. Premium is not on sale yet. When it is, it will raise limits — more scans, more products, longer history — and remove the ads. Nothing that is free today is being moved behind it.

What none of that changes

Commission is not an input anywhere in the ranking. Products are ordered by how their ingredients fit your skin profile and by what your own data says, and that is the whole list of inputs.

• The dupe finder shows the cheaper alternative even when the expensive one would earn more. A $12 match to a $90 cream is the answer, so it is the answer we print.
• Ingredient warnings come from the formula and your health settings. A brand cannot pay one off, because there is no mechanism through which a brand pays us anything.
• No brand has ever paid for placement in the catalog, and there is no field in the code that could hold it.

How to hold us to it

Affiliate links are labelled where they appear — if you ever find one that is not, that is a bug, and we want to hear about it. You can export everything we hold about you from Profile → Privacy & data, at any time, and delete the account outright from the same screen.