Vegan beauty scanner app

The animal-derived ingredients that hide in plain sight

Plenty of well-loved products are not vegan for reasons that aren't obvious from the front of the pack: carmine gives lipsticks their red, beeswax structures balms, lanolin softens, guanine adds shimmer. Clarra knows these on the INCI list and flags them. Where an ingredient's source is genuinely ambiguous (glycerin, squalane, hyaluronic acid can be either), we say so honestly instead of guessing.

Why Clarra

• Flags common animal-derived ingredients: carmine, beeswax, lanolin, honey, guanine, shellac and more.
• Vegan status kept as its own pillar, separate from cruelty-free.
• Honest about ambiguous-source ingredients rather than overclaiming.
• Beauty and personal care only, so the vegan knowledge is deep, not broad.
• Paired with sourced ingredient flags and cruelty-free status.

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.

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.

Open sources, no black box

Clarra doesn't embed any proprietary rating database or invent its own secret score. It draws on open, public regulatory sources and cites them, and uses Open Beauty Facts product data under the ODbL with attribution. If you want to check where a flag comes from, the source is right there — transparency is part of the point.

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.