Makeup ingredient scanner app

Colour cosmetics have their own quirks

Makeup brings ingredients you rarely meet in skincare: mineral pigments (talc, titanium dioxide, iron oxides), and animal-derived colourants like carmine and guanine. Some of these have sourced flags worth understanding (and some, like the talc-versus-asbestos story, are widely misunderstood). Clarra explains them calmly, names the sources, and flags the ones that affect vegan status.

Why Clarra

• Reads colour cosmetics: foundation, lipstick, blush, eyeshadow.
• Catches animal-derived pigments like carmine and guanine.
• Explains mineral ingredients (talc, titanium dioxide) with sources.
• Shows cruelty-free and vegan status as separate pillars.
• Calm, non-alarmist framing throughout.

How Clarra reads a product

• Search a product by name, or scan its ingredient label — no live 'point at anything' barcode magic promised.
• Clarra parses the INCI ingredient list into plain English.
• Flagged ingredients get their sourced regulatory context; benign ones are marked as generally well tolerated.
• You see the three pillars at a glance and decide for yourself — informational only, not medical or safety advice.

Built for the aisle, not the lab

Clarra is made for the real moment you're deciding: standing in a shop or scrolling a store page, wanting a quick, honest read before you buy. Scan or search a product and you get the plain-English picture in seconds — the ingredient flags that matter, the cruelty-free status, the vegan status — without a chemistry degree or a wall of alarming colour.

Three pillars, kept separate

Clarra reads three distinct things and refuses to blend them into one misleading score: what a product's ingredient list flags, whether the brand is cruelty-free, and whether the formula is vegan. Keeping them separate matters — a product can be vegan but worth checking on testing policy, or cruelty-free but not vegan. One number would hide all of that; three clear pillars don't.

What Clarra reads on every product

• Ingredient flags — how named regulators (EU CosIng, IARC, Prop 65, CIR, ECHA) classify or restrict what's inside, with hazard kept separate from risk.
• Cruelty-free status — shown with positive framing: what a brand states or is certified for, never an accusation.
• Vegan status — flagging animal-derived ingredients like carmine, beeswax and lanolin, and honest about ambiguous-source ones.