Brands
Reviewing one product tells you about that product. Reviewing a whole catalogue tells you about the company — whether a low dose is a considered choice or a habit, whether an omission is an oversight or a policy.
Each brand page carries the aggregate score, every product ranked, a disclosure scorecard, and the patterns that only become visible across a range. Nothing on a brand page is new evidence — it is drawn from the reviews, which carry the sources.
Featured provider files
Start with each provider’s review. Scores show publisher preference; product evidence is assessed separately.
- FILE 019.8/10 · PREFERENCE
CoreAge Rx
Our featured skincare recommendation
Five formulas, with separate records for their ingredients, advertised prices and prescribing questions.
Read provider review → - FILE 029.6/10 · PREFERENCE
SuperHealthy Rx
Service scope · skincare not verified
A telehealth comparison for readers also researching weight care. Its checked catalog does not establish a skincare service.
Read provider review → - FILE 039.4/10 · PREFERENCE
Likeness Rx
Five skincare pathways
Compare its estriol, tretinoin, dark-spot, copper-peptide and clear-skin offers, including term-based payments.
Read provider review →
The brand register
- ONLINE DERMATOLOGY · PLAN-DEPENDENT VISITS
MDLIVE
Published visit scope, benefit-dependent pricing and a messaging window make the offer assessable. The account-specific benefit and eligibility checks remain essential.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 85/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - TELEHEALTH · MANUFACTURED PRESCRIPTION DISPENSING
RedBox Rx
A useful reference for what a conventional tube costs when mass and billing interval are published. Its pharmacy-dependent consultation fee is part of the deal.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 85/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - ONLINE DERMATOLOGY · CASH-PAY VISITS
DocBright
The service defines a visit through its response window, messaging period and periodic reassessment rule. Those boundaries are more useful than an open-ended promise of access.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 85/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - TELEHEALTH · DERMATOLOGY MEMBERSHIP
Honeydew
The first company in this register to lead a product page with a teratogenicity warning and to disclose its own off-label prescribing unprompted. It sells that treatment in four-month blocks and states, on the same page, that the course runs eighteen to twenty-four months.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 76/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - MANUFACTURED PRESCRIPTION DERMATOLOGY · FDA APPROVED
LEO Pharma
One product, and it was the first registration programme in this register enrolled in the population this site is written for — mean age 50.6, range 19 to 92. It is also the cheapest prescription we have assessed.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 88/100RECOMMENDED1CONDITIONAL0CAUTION0AVOID0 - ONLINE DERMATOLOGY · PHARMACY CHOICE
Miiskin
Miiskin makes the choice between a conventional pharmacy prescription and a custom compound visible. The useful comparison starts after the visit fee, when the exact medicine and pharmacy quote are known.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 80/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - ONLINE DERMATOLOGY · INDIVIDUAL VISITS
DermatologistOnCall
A clearly bounded consultation rather than a multi-concern skincare bundle. Provider selection and the one-condition rule are the details to settle before paying.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 80/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - ONLINE DERMATOLOGY · INSURANCE & CASH PAY
SkyMD
An insurance-aware route whose public FAQ explains why accepting a plan does not settle a patient's bill. Evaluate the estimate for your selected clinician and benefits.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 80/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - MANUFACTURED PRESCRIPTION DERMATOLOGY · FDA APPROVED
Arcutis
One product, the highest response rates in this register, the cleanest tolerability profile in it, and the worst price in it. All three at once.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 88/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - MANUFACTURED PRESCRIPTION DERMATOLOGY · FDA APPROVED
Bausch Health
Six reviewed prescriptions now include CABTREO alongside four retinoid products and fluorouracil. Their labels illustrate why a finished formulation, its indication and its handling instructions need to be assessed together.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 88/100RECOMMENDED1CONDITIONAL5CAUTION0AVOID0 - MANUFACTURED PRESCRIPTION DERMATOLOGY · FDA APPROVED
Galderma
Five products, four of them for rosacea and pigment, and between them the most instructive set of labels in this register. One tells you to stop. One tells you it does not work on redness. One tells you not to use its antibiotic as an antibiotic. One publishes a table showing its own drug irritating two-thirds of the people who took it.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 91/100RECOMMENDED3CONDITIONAL1CAUTION1AVOID0 - MANUFACTURED PRESCRIPTION DERMATOLOGY · FDA APPROVED
Allergan
Two products with nothing in common except a habit of publishing the inconvenient part — the largest, least ambiguous cosmetic result in this register alongside two harms that do not reverse, and the only acne label anywhere here that reports the drug working differently in women than in men.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 90/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL2CAUTION0AVOID0 - VIRTUAL CARE · MEMBERSHIP & VISITS
PlushCare
The tretinoin offer is a route to care with several cost components. The membership figure becomes useful only when visits and the pharmacy bill are included.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 75/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - VIRTUAL HEALTHCARE · PRESCRIPTION ACCESS
Walgreens
A familiar pharmacy brand with a distinct virtual-care transaction. Eligibility, clinician type, visit fees and prescription coverage need their own checks.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 75/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - TELEHEALTH · COMPOUNDED SKINCARE
Hers
A public cream page with concentration ceilings and a base list. Those disclosures are useful while remaining different from an individual prescription and current price quote.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 75/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - TELEHEALTH MARKETPLACE · PRESCRIBING SERVICE
Sesame
Sells no product at all, which dissolves most of this register's standing complaints by construction — the medicine arrives from a pharmacy with a manufacturer's label on it. What it will not tell you is what that medicine costs.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 66/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - MANUFACTURED PRESCRIPTION DERMATOLOGY · FDA APPROVED
Almirall
Three products with almost nothing in common except a habit of printing the boundary of what is known — a legacy retinoid that publishes what happened twelve weeks after people stopped, an oral antibiotic that caps its own evidence at twelve weeks, and a five-day course that ends.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 90/100RECOMMENDED1CONDITIONAL2CAUTION0AVOID0 - PHYSICIAN-DISPENSED · MANUFACTURED PRESCRIPTION SKINCARE
Obagi
The first manufactured drug in this register rather than a compounded blend, and it reads like one: pharmacopoeial concentration, full excipient list, a real package insert. What it does not say is that the FDA has never found it safe and effective, or what ochronosis is.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 74/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - TELEHEALTH · GENERIC PRESCRIPTIONS AND COMPOUNDED FORMULAS
Nurx
The compounder that publishes everything: concentrations, container volumes, prices, billing cadence and an explicit statement that its compounded products were never assessed by the FDA — all on the page you buy from. It is the disclosure standard the rest of this register has been asked for and refused.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 88/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - PRESCRIPTION PHARMACEUTICALS · ACNE & ROSACEA
Mayne Pharma
The register now connects TWYNEO with the existing RHOFADE and EPSOLAY reviews. Their acne and rosacea records address different conditions and should be read with each product's own label and review date.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 85/100RECOMMENDED1CONDITIONAL1CAUTION1AVOID0 - PERSONALIZED PRESCRIPTION SKINCARE · VISIBLE AGING
Agency
The three existing Agency reviews now cover Night Renew Rx, Dark Spot Rx and Eye Revive Rx at their current names, pack sizes and public prices. An ingredient menu still needs an individual prescription.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 73/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL3CAUTION0AVOID0 - PERSONALIZED PRESCRIPTION SKINCARE · ACNE
Curology
The register now assesses Custom Formula Rx alongside DayPrime. The comparison is about the assigned ingredients, daytime format and complete acne regimen, without assuming every patient receives the same prescription.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 73/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL2CAUTION0AVOID0 - MANUFACTURED PRESCRIPTION DERMATOLOGY · FDA APPROVED
Sun Pharmaceutical
One product, and it is the first genuinely new mechanism in topical acne treatment in decades — with a label candid enough to state that the mechanism, in acne, is unknown.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 90/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - TELEHEALTH · UK COMPOUNDED PRESCRIPTION SKINCARE
Skin + Me
The only company in this register that has done anything about the least controlled variable in topical medicine — how much cream a person actually applies. A twist-and-click dispenser meters one evening's dose and will not give you two. It just will not tell you how much a dose is.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 66/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - TELEHEALTH · COMPOUNDED PRESCRIPTION SKINCARE
Ro
The first company here to print 'Compounded medication. Not FDA-approved.' under its own price, and to explain that compounded drugs undergo no safety, effectiveness or manufacturing review. It publishes seven ingredients and the strength of none of them.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 72/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - ON-DEMAND MEDICAL ACCESS · PHARMACY PRESCRIBING
Amazon One Medical
The reviewed anti-aging page separates intake from the treatment decision. Current eligibility, encounter terms and medication prices still need to be checked in the selected offer.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 65/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - TELEHEALTH · COMPOUNDED SKINCARE
Hims
The reviewed cream offer states compounding status and a minimum commitment. Its individual formula and dispensing quantity still need to be established at the prescription level.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 65/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - TELEHEALTH · COMPOUNDED PRESCRIPTION SKINCARE
Dermatica
On three of its four treatment pages it publishes prescription concentrations where you buy — the only brand here that does, and it cites the literature by name too. On the newest it names nothing at all. The pools are chosen with real clinical judgement and the headlines above them are the weakest copy on the site.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 44/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL4CAUTION1AVOID0 - PRESCRIBER-INITIATED COMPOUNDING PLATFORM
Skin Medicinals
Two reviewed offerings, anti-aging and rosacea, show why a platform menu is only the beginning of a prescription record. Ask for the selected formula, pharmacy quote and care arrangement together.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 63/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL2CAUTION0AVOID0 - TELEHEALTH · MENOPAUSE-SPECIALISED PRESCRIBING
Alloy
Publishes more about its formulas than almost anyone here — concentrations, full ingredient lists, results labelled by measurement method — across four pages that between them contain no safety information at all, under four headings that promise it.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 38/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL2CAUTION4AVOID0 - TELEHEALTH · COMPOUNDED PRESCRIPTION RETINOID
Dear Brightly
Publishes its entire vehicle down to the trade names of the raw materials, and the tretinoin range to three decimal places. Then makes the subscription compulsory on a clinical argument its own shipping schedule contradicts.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 58/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - TELEHEALTH · COMPOUNDED PRESCRIPTION SKINCARE
Musely
The widest range we have assessed, and the widest spread of quality inside it — from the first product we recommended to two we have told people to avoid. The formulas are frequently good. The concentrations are almost never on the page you buy from.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 23/100RECOMMENDED1CONDITIONAL3CAUTION3AVOID2 - TELEHEALTH · MANUFACTURED & COMPOUNDED OPTIONS
Strut Health
Useful product-specific details coexist with inconsistent prices and unrelated formula sections. The three reviews keep those documentation findings separate from claims about a pharmacy's product quality.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 43/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL0CAUTION3AVOID0 - SKINCARE SERVICE
CoreAge Rx
CoreAge Rx company file: how its five skincare product records fit together, what the current catalog discloses and which prescribing and billing questions remain open.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN NOT SCOREDRECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL6CAUTION0AVOID0 - SKINCARE SERVICE
Likeness Rx
Likeness Rx company file: its skincare catalog, ingredient disclosures, recurring plan structure and links to the full native provider assessment.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN NOT SCOREDRECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - WEIGHT CARE / SCOPE REVIEW
SuperHealthy Rx
SuperHealthy Rx company file: the verified telehealth categories, the limits of its relevance to a skincare register and questions to resolve before enrollment.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN NOT SCOREDRECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - COSMETIC SKINCARE
IMAGE Skincare
A desk review of the $114 moisturizer, its botanical NAD-support story, 12-week study design and unopened-return policy.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN NOT SCOREDRECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - COSMETIC SKINCARE
Renue By Science
A desk review of Renue’s $72 face serum, liposomal delivery claims, alcohol-containing formula and 51-person product-use study.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN NOT SCOREDRECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - COSMETIC SKINCARE
SKINN
A desk review of SKINN’s vitamin C and niacinamide percentages, orange-peel scent, sale price and inconsistent return conditions.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN NOT SCOREDRECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL0CAUTION1AVOID0 - COSMETIC SKINCARE
Elm Biosciences
A desk review of Elm’s $135 antioxidant serum, $108 monthly option, eight-week study and the distinction from its separate retinoid night cream.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN NOT SCOREDRECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - COSMETIC SKINCARE
Alastin
A desk review of Alastin’s $258 peptide serum, Octapeptide-45 and magnolol claims, brand-held evidence and return-policy categories.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN NOT SCOREDRECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - COSMETIC SKINCARE
DRMTLGY
A desk review of the $69 Needle-less Growth Factor Serum, its peptide formula, reported comparator trial and 60-day return process.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN NOT SCOREDRECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - COSMETIC SKINCARE
e.l.f. Cosmetics
A desk review of Save Your e.l.f. Hypochlorous Mist, its cosmetic redness claims, disclosed use directions and the information still needed for a formula comparison.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN NOT SCOREDRECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0