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How we recommend

Every tag has a
reason.

What your scan looks at, how products are matched, and what each tag means.

How matching works

  1. Your scan reads your photo

    YouCam Skin Analysis finds your skin type and scores visible concerns such as breakouts, shine, redness, dryness and dark spots. It also estimates how easily your skin tone burns (its Fitzpatrick type).

    We group those scores into the concerns you see in your results and rate each as Slight, Visible or Very visible. These levels are our own early cut-offs from recorded sample faces, not medical grades.

  2. What stood out leads the shop

    The three most visible concerns go first. Each product is scored on whether it is made for those concerns, whether its texture suits your skin type, and, for sunscreens, how well it fits your skin tone’s sun needs.

  3. Every card says why

    The tag on a product names its main reason, such as “Targets breakouts” or “Controls shine”. Its color and the line under the price show how strong the match is: Great match, Good match or Everyday pick.

    Amber tags such as “May clog pores” mean use with care. Red “Not for your skin” means the formula may be too rich, too drying or too strong for your skin right now, so it moves to the end. Open any product to read the full reason.

Shopping for someone else?

Every product stays in the shop, scan or no scan. A flagged product can still be the right buy: a gift, something your dermatologist recommended, or a favorite that already works for you. Hide your matches, rescan or delete your results anytime from your skin menu.

Guidance, not a diagnosis

A photo cannot tell the whole story: lighting, angle and image quality all change the result. A scan cannot diagnose a condition or test for allergies. If a concern keeps coming back or feels sore, a dermatologist can help.

What is real and what is a demo

Skin analysis is real: live scans use YouCam Skin Analysis and its Fitzpatrick estimate, and the sample faces replay real recorded results. The products, formulas and prices are a fictional house line made to show how matching works. Orders are never placed.

Your photo

Your browser resizes the photo and sends it straight to YouCam for this one analysis. Our application never saves your photo; closing the scan discards its browser preview. Derived scores stay in this browser until you delete them from the skin menu. To avoid repeat analysis, our server also caches derived scores for 24 hours, keyed by a salted visitor hash and photo hash, without the photo or mask URLs. Deleting browser results does not clear that temporary server cache. YouCam processes the uploaded photo under its own terms.

Research & sources

Every ingredient rule and caution behind a match cites one of these references.

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