What’s confirmed?
What’s still unknown?
Start with a product you are considering. Choose what caught your attention, then compare the brand’s promise with the evidence we can actually show.
Treatfolio at a glance
What is Treatfolio?
Treatfolio is an English-language website for checking beauty products, mostly K-beauty skincare and makeup, before you buy. A check sets the brand’s own claims beside the captured ingredient list and, where enough qualify, approved firsthand experiences. It also lists what is still unknown, and each part links to its dated source.
Who is it for?
Shoppers who are already considering a specific product and want to see the evidence behind its claims, rather than a ranking or a skin diagnosis.
What does it cover?
The searchable database records 3,431 products from 60 brands. 1,297 of them have a public product record with a captured ingredient list or official directions, and 1,846 ingredient pages cite research, regulatory, official ingredient-inventory or brand-declared amount sources. Full 30-second checks are currently available for 6 products.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up. You can search products, open the receipts and play the makeup game without logging in.
What does Treatfolio not do?
It does not diagnose skin, rate ingredient safety, give a universal product score or infer concentrations from ingredient order. Being listed in the database is not a recommendation.
How do I start?
Press Check a product and type the name, take a photo of the label or upload a screenshot. Then choose what caught your attention, then open the receipts behind each part of the check.
Your 30-second Product Check
- Promise. What the brand says, attributed to its official source.
- Formula. The captured ingredient list and what it does or does not disclose.
- Reality. Approved firsthand experiences, with their context and limitations.
- Unknowns. Missing amounts, version uncertainty and questions the evidence cannot answer.
Every check opens its receipts in one click. A listed ingredient does not prove an effective dose or a result from the finished product. We do not infer concentrations from ingredient order or provide skin diagnoses, toxicity verdicts or a universal score.
Why a check may say “Too early to call”
A discussion summary is not a vote. Before showing a Keep / Skip / Depends front, we require at least 20 qualified firsthand reports from 15 people, 5 threads and 2 source contexts. No thread may supply more than 40% of the reports.
Recent and contextual reports are also required. At least two product-specific issues must each have 6 voices from 3 independent threads, without a single thread supplying more than half the voices. One person counts once per issue. Risk reports remain separate and are never presented as an incidence rate.
Our first checks contain official-source evidence. Approved atomic review evidence is not yet available, so the review front stays in what we call Fog of war: too early to call. Zero approved voices here does not mean the product has no reviews elsewhere.
Dates and formula versions matter
Receipts identify the official source, capture date, market and captured product option. A source snapshot is not a manufacturer’s batch identifier. Formulas can differ across packages, markets and revisions. Official evidence older than 180 days is marked for rechecking.
The $100 makeup game
The makeup budget challenge remains a separate experiment. Pick across five makeup zones, leave a zone empty and share a board friends can remix.
Price & source
Game prices are dated official-store USD snapshots, not current price promises. Tax and shipping are excluded. The illustrated face does not simulate product shades on your skin.