
We spoke with board-certified NYC dermatologists Dendy Engelman, MD, and Kenneth Howe, MD along with master esthetician Heather Nicole on the importance of checking your beauty labels, and it inspired us to do some deep digging. These handy websites and apps break down the marketing lingo and list all the ingredients that are actually inside your beauty products, making you a more conscious consumer.

What better way of knowing which product is right for you than really narrowing down what's inside of it? That's where ingredient checkers come in.

When it comes to choosing beauty products, what's most important to you? How it looks, what it does or, what its ingredients are? Sometimes beauty industry jargon can be confusing, masking a product's true ingredients and effectiveness.
