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.
The brand register
- TELEHEALTH · COMPOUNDED SKINCARE, GLP-1s & LONGEVITY
CoreAge Rx
The best ingredient thinking in the register, sold behind the thinnest product pages. A copper peptide dosed four times above its studied concentration, tretinoin correctly paired with niacinamide, an estriol matched to the pivotal study, a three-pathway pigment stack. Not one product publishes an ingredient list, a container size, or any clinical data.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 70/100RECOMMENDED2CONDITIONAL3CAUTION0AVOID0 - 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 - 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
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 - 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 - MANUFACTURED PRESCRIPTION DERMATOLOGY · FDA APPROVED
Bausch Health
Five approved products, and between them the clearest demonstration in this register that the vehicle is the variable — four answers to the same retinoid problem, all with the trials published. The fifth is a chemotherapy agent from an earlier regulatory era whose label publishes no efficacy figure at all.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 86/100RECOMMENDED1CONDITIONAL4CAUTION0AVOID0 - 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 - MANUFACTURED PRESCRIPTION DERMATOLOGY · FDA APPROVED
Mayne Pharma
Two products, both for rosacea, at opposite ends of what a registration programme can return. One published a demanding endpoint honestly and the honest answer was 12% to 18%. The other put benzoyl peroxide inside silica capsules and got the second-best rosacea result in this register.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 88/100RECOMMENDED1CONDITIONAL0CAUTION1AVOID0 - 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 - 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 - 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 · PERSONALISED COMPOUNDED PRESCRIPTION
Agency
The disclosure standard for this register, and the only company that builds a drug holiday into its own billing — hydroquinone cycled off automatically, the right bottle sent without being asked. What it still will not publish is a concentration range.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 60/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL3CAUTION0AVOID0 - 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 · PERSONALISED COMPOUNDED PRESCRIPTION
Curology
One product assessed so far. It publishes its inactive list like the sibling brand, but drops the fill weight — and it puts a topical antibiotic in a system with no benzoyl peroxide in it anywhere.
STANCE SPREADDISCLOSURE MEAN 52/100RECOMMENDED0CONDITIONAL1CAUTION0AVOID0 - 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