ComfiSkin vs Ingred
Ingred flags “harmful” ingredients from a photo of the label, using lists drawn partly from wellness blogs. ComfiSkin explains what each ingredient does in plain words and checks the product against your skin, for free, with nothing shared about you.
Cosmetic sources, from Ingred’s listing
- Red Ecoestética
- misrecetasanticancer.com“My anti-cancer recipes”
- estrelladelasnieves.es
- ecolisima.com
- naturalsensia.com
- wikibelleza.es
The short answer
Ingred is free, but its cosmetic “harmful ingredient” lists come partly from wellness blogs, including one called “my anti-cancer recipes”. Its Google Play listing says it shares your device ID for advertising, that data isn’t encrypted and can’t be deleted. And the iPhone app hasn’t been updated since January 2024.
What that means: you could be scared off a product by a blog post, while your phone is quietly shared with advertisers. ComfiSkin is also free, explains ingredients properly, and shares nothing about you.
Side by side
| ComfiSkin | Ingred | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get after scanning | What each ingredient does, in plain words, and whether the product suits your skin | A list of ingredients flagged as possibly harmful, the same for everyone |
| Where cosmetic ratings come from | Explained for each ingredient | Partly wellness blogs, by its own listing1 |
| Shares your device ID for advertising | No | Yes, says Google Play2 |
| Is your data encrypted? Can you delete it? | Your notes stay on your phone, and you can delete them any time | “Data isn’t encrypted” and “can’t be deleted”, says Google Play2 |
| Last iPhone update | Updated regularly | 13 January 20241 |
| Checks food additives too | No | Yes |
Ratings built on blogs
Ingred’s store description lists where its cosmetic information comes from. Alongside an eco-beauty network, the list includes wellness and lifestyle sites such as misrecetasanticancer.com (“my anti-cancer recipes”), estrelladelasnieves.es, ecolisima.com, naturalsensia.com and wikibelleza.es. Its food additive data is described as taken from two blogs that compile official sources.1
That matters because the app’s job is to tell you something “can be harmful to your health”. When the source is a blog rather than a safety body, that warning carries the blog’s worries, not the evidence. Spanish reviewers have said as much, calling it “Alarmante y sin credibilidad” (alarming and without credibility).3
ComfiSkin doesn’t sort ingredients into harmful and harmless. It explains what each one does in the formula, flags the ones you’ve told it you avoid, and tells you whether the product suits your skin.
What that means for you: a red flag in Ingred might just mean a blogger didn’t like the ingredient. You could bin a good product for nothing.
Free, but your phone is shared with advertisers
On the App Store, Ingred says it collects no data. On Google Play, its data safety section says it shares device IDs for “Advertising or marketing” and photos for app functionality, and that “Data isn’t encrypted” and “Data can’t be deleted”.1,2 The two stores can’t both be right.
A free app shared with advertisers is still being paid for, just not by you. ComfiSkin is free without the catch: no ads, no tracking, and everything stays on your phone, where you can delete it whenever you like.
What that means for you: using Ingred on Android can mean your phone’s ID is passed to advertisers, with no way to have your data deleted.
It often gets stuck
The iPhone app was last updated on 13 January 2024, more than a year and a half before we checked.1 Recent Spanish reviews describe the same problem again and again: you upload a photo and it stays “analysing” without a result. When we checked, 16 of its 50 most recent Spanish App Store reviews gave one or two stars.3
“Subes foto y se queda analizando y no te da ningún resultado.”
What that means for you: standing in a shop waiting for a result that never comes.
What to do if you use Ingred
- Don’t bin a product because Ingred flagged it. Check what the ingredient actually does and how far down the label it sits.
- On Android, reset your advertising ID in your phone’s privacy settings if you’ve been using it.
- Scan products in ComfiSkin. Free, explained in plain words, and nothing shared about you.
Sources
- Ingred on the US App Store: description, sources, version history and App Privacy label. apps.apple.com
- Ingred on Google Play, data safety section. play.google.com
- Apple’s public feed of the 50 most recent Spanish App Store reviews of Ingred, read 11 October 2026. itunes.apple.com
More comparisons
Get ingredients explained properly
What each ingredient does, in plain words, and whether it suits your skin.
- Free, all of itNo plans, trials or paywalls. Every feature, for everyone.
- No sign-upNo account, no email, no password to lose.
- No ads, no trackingNothing about you is sold, shared or followed around the web.
- Your notes stay on your phoneWith a password-protected backup that only you control.
- Never asks for your faceIt reads the label, not you.
- Answers for your skinYour skin type, concerns, avoid list and routine, every time.