Think Dirty is the easiest way to learn about the potentially toxic ingredients in your cosmetics and personal care products. It’s an independent source that allows you to compare products as you shop. Just scan the product barcode, and Think Dirty will give you easy-to-understand info on the product, track dirty ingredients, and shop for cleaner options.
• Search by Keyword or Barcode Scanning: Our database lists over 850,000 cosmetics and personal care products from Canada and the U.S.
• Personalized Ingredient Preferences (Premium): Save time by pre-selecting your Allergens, Ingredient preferences and personalizing your shopping experience. Ingredient alerts will be presented if we find flagged ingredients in the products you viewed.
• Search by Ingredient (Premium): Unlock to get detailed information about its usage, health impact, sources, and which products contain such ingredients.
• Search by Curated Categories (Premium Feature): Unlock to access our curated speciality lists such as Mineral Sunscreens, SLES-Free Skincare, Vegan Makeup
• Expiry Date Tracker: Is that mascara still good to use, but don't remember how long you have had it? Now you can keep track of its expiry date on your Bathroom Shelf. Enter Open Date and Shelf Life, and you will never put expired products on your face again!
• Dirty Meter®: A comprehensive rating is given, along with detailed (but easy-to-understand) information on ingredients, certifications, and health impacts.
• My Bathroom Rating: Keep track of what’s already in your bathroom. Learn your current bathroom rating, and track your progress on “cleaning” it up.
• Upvote Non-Rated Products: Let your voices be heard! Upvote, and we will aggregate user responses and reach out to brands on users’ behalf to encourage them to get their products verified and rated.
• Shopping Lists: Save products and make shopping faster and easier.
• Shop Now: Buy products directly from Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Well.ca, Sephora.com, and Amazon.co.uk.
• 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 thank you with a discount code to use our beauty box subscription. And will notify you once they are in our database.
As mentioned in:
Fast Company’s 2020 World-Changing Ideas North America
25+ Apps To Make Your Everyday Life Easier – TED Blog
7 New Beauty Apps You Need to Download Now – Allure Magazine
26 Underrated Apps Every Twentysomething Should Download Right Now – BuzzFeed
The Beauty And Fashion Apps You Need To Download ASAP – Glamour Magazine UK
As a small team, we are working diligently to accommodate the overwhelmingly positive amount of users' submissions (especially from our EU users) to our database.
We appreciate constructive feedback. Please email us at questions@thinkdirtyapp.com if you have comments or suggestions.
Psst, here's the latest update:
- A new and improved Beauty traits quiz is now available. Let us know your skin or hair concerns and what truly matters to you to offer you a more customizable experience!
- Did those little bugs annoy you? Don't worry we've fixed them.
Enjoy the new and improved Think Dirty!
Attention Dirty Thinkers:
* Bugs: Pesky bugs are fixed!
* Premium Feature - Real-Time Rating: Scan beauty/body care/household products for instant ratings. No more waiting for products to be processed!
* Premium Bonus - Ingredients Searched Tab: Track activity with the new Ingredients searched tab in History. What's more, items in History can be removed.
* Sort & Filter Feature Bonus: Filter '75% & above' in the 'Would Buy Again' section.
What's New:
• New 'Exclude Pinned Results'Filter in Sort & Filters.
• More filtering: find accredited items & see those with high "Will Buy Again%".
• Refreshed History screen: Direct product submission from Scanned Tab.
• Improved "Add to Lists": locating your lists is now a breeze.
• Bugs? We've tackled them.
• Performance? Amped up for smoother usage.
In this update:
• Real-time Product Rating (Premium): Get instant ratings with zero delay.
• Expiry Date Tracker: Add expiry dates to all shopping lists.
• Edit Submission Progress: Monitor your submission status and track remaining entries for unrestricted page limits on User-Submitted products.
• Flexible Subscriptions: Unlimited access to Ingredient Alerts & Real-Time Ratings with All Access or Lifetime Access (No Subscription).
• Custom Labels: View products/brands via team-curated labels.
In this update, you will find the following new features:
Expiry Date Tracker: You can now add product expiry dates on all your shopping lists!
Bathroom Shelf Categories: The new Bathroom Shelf Categories feature allows you to organize your bathroom shelves with more detail and make it much easier to locate a product.
Submission Progress: Track progress of your submissions and see how many you need to remove the page limit for User Submitted products
Plus, performance improvement and bug fixes.
With our improved ingredient preferences functionality, you can tap, hold and see ingredient details before adding to your preferences. Learning more about ingredients just got easier! Also don't forget to check out our latest mention in the NYTimes Well section, titled: "Many Personal Care Products Contain Harmful Chemicals. Here’s What to Do About It."!
The world is getting dirty and it’s time to put an end to this. So, we’re happy to announce that the Think Dirty app is getting some improvements and updates:
We gave history screen a design refresh and also improved user experience of viewing submission and product details screen. Plus various bug fixes to improve your experience.
Sun’s out, bums out. And... masks are gone (for now). There are still some bugs to fix. This is a good update. We hope everyone is staying safe, sane, and healthy out there!
New year, new update! If we have magic power, the pandemic will be behind us. Since we don’t, all we can do for you is improve our boarding, animation and overall user experience. Oh yeah, and killed some bugs too. Take care and stay safe.
Finally, you’re in control of your makeup - Introducing Expiry Date Tracker.
Is that mascara still good to use, but don't remember how long you have had it? Now you can keep track of its expiry date on your Bathroom Shelf. Enter Open Date and Shelf Life, and you will never put expired products on your face again!
Up your #shopclean game by checking your progress on your Activity dashboard.
Finally, you’re in control of your makeup - Introducing Expiry Date Tracker.
Is that mascara still good to use, but don't remember how long you have had it? Now you can keep track of its expiry date on your Bathroom Shelf. Enter Open Date and Shelf Life, and you will never put expired products on your face again!
Up your #shopclean game by checking your progress on your Activity dashboard.
Finally, you’re in control of your makeup - Introducing Expiry Date Tracker.
Is that mascara still good to use, but don't remember how long you have had it? Now you can keep track of its expiry date on your Bathroom Shelf. Enter Open Date and Shelf Life, and you will never put expired products on your face again!
Up your #shopclean game by checking your progress on your Activity dashboard.
• Easy to read ingredient summary chart
• Improved layout of the ingredient details panel
• Save personal lifestyle preferences for a more customized experience.
• Search by ingredients: Unlock to get detailed information about its usage, health impact, sources and also which products contain such ingredient
• Upvote Non-Rated Products: Tap upvote and we will aggregate user responses and reach out to brands on users’ behalf to encourage them to get their products verified and rated.
• Bug fixes
• Easy to read ingredient summary chart
• Improved layout of the ingredient details panel
• Save personal lifestyle preferences for a more customized experience.
• Search by ingredients: Unlock to get detailed information about its usage, health impact, sources and also which products contain such ingredient
• Upvote Non-Rated Products: Tap upvote and we will aggregate user responses and reach out to brands on users’ behalf to encourage them to get their products verified and rated.
• Bug fixes
- New Product details screen!
- UI fixes
- Bug fixes
- Stability improvement
* Stability improvement
* UI fixes
* Stability improvement
* New Home Screen!
* New personal notifications
* New navigation
* Multiple other new features
* UI fixes
* Stability improvement
- Premium Categories are now live!
- Added Email verification for enhanced security
- Numerous bug fixes and UI improvements
- Added Google Sign in options
- Fixed an issue where the app crashes upon signing in for some users
- Fixed an issue where liking / reviewing products crashes the app for some users
- Added new personalized animations
- Users can now view submitted products
- Improved product submissions
- Added capability to scroll ingredients and descriptions in product submissions
- UI improvements and app stability
- Improvements in data handling and caching
- UI animations and improvements
- Improved API calls
- Added new password requirements
- Various other bug fixes
- UI Animations
- UI fixes
- Stability improvements
- Bug fixes
