Skin Bliss: What Is the Quality Score?
Skin Bliss's Quality Score reveals a product's true value, rating its safety, ingredient effectiveness, and formulation design on a four-tier scale.
"Is this product well formulated?"
That's the question the Quality Score in Skin Bliss helps you answer.
A product can have actives, but still cut corners in formulation. That's why we created a separate score to reflect the overall integrity and design of a skincare product-not just what's in it, but how thoughtfully it's made.
The Quality Tier System
We now use a four-tier rating system to classify product quality more clearly and transparently:
| Tier | Description |
|---|---|
| ❌ Lowest Tier | Contains potentially harmful ingredients, like ones banned in the EU |
| 👍 Normal Quality | Meets acceptable formulation standards-nothing great, nothing terrible |
| 👍👍 Good Quality | Thoughtfully formulated, includes several beneficial ingredients |
| 👍👍👍 Top Quality | The top 5% of products-exceptionally well-formulated and beneficial |
🔍 What We Look At
Our Quality Score is built from multiple layers of evaluation:
🛡️ 1. Safety & Regulation
Products score lower if they contain:
- Ingredients banned or restricted in the European Union
- Ingredients with well-established scientific concerns, such as possible endocrine-disruptors
🧪 2. Ingredient Value
We assess whether ingredients add meaningful benefit-or are just filler.
For example:
- Products that include mineral oil might still function, but could be improved by using more multi-functional or nourishing alternatives.
- The score rewards products that go beyond basics, using advanced actives or multi-functional blends to provide more value to your skin.
A formula with 5 highly effective ingredients might score higher than one with 50 ingredients, most of which do little to nothing.
📏 3. Formulation Design
It's not just what's in the product, but how well it's designed:
- Are actives paired thoughtfully?
- Is the ingredient list bloated with "cheap fillers"?
- Are synergistic ingredients present to enhance effectiveness?
Products that demonstrate intention and purpose in formulation design will score higher.
⚖️ Lifestyle Filters ≠ Quality Score
We understand that you may want to avoid certain ingredients-like petroleum-based or silicone-based ones-for personal or ethical reasons.
We give you tools to filter those out through our lifestyle filters.
But these choices do not affect the quality score directly-because a product can still be high-quality while containing such ingredients. You get to decide based on your own values.
🧠 TL;DR
- The Quality Score tells you how smart, safe, and beneficial a formulation is
- We rate products using a 4-tier system, from ❌ to 👍👍👍
- We look at ingredient value, safety, and formulation quality-not trends or hype
- Use it alongside the Efficiency Score and Skin Match Score for a 360° view
Because you deserve to know what's behind the label-and whether it's truly worth your shelf space.