Methodology v3.1 · CosmeticFountain approved products
This page explains the method in accessible terms: how the site goes from a very noisy beauty market to a few readable, cautious and useful dossiers.
Version 3.1 — In force since its validation; the official date will be published with the legal information.
The 4 steps
The idea is not to reveal everything like an industrial recipe. The idea is that you can follow the path: select, verify, contradict, then publish only if the dossier still stands.
CosmeticFountain starts from products genuinely visible to readers in the United Kingdom: skincare, sunscreens, serums and selected at-home beauty devices. A product only enters the Observatory if its promises can be verified properly. See the AI agents.
Goal: avoid noise, empty trends and products impossible to examine.
Every important promise is re-read by 6 specialised verification agents. They compare the formula, directions, precautions, studies, regulatory sources and brand information. See the AI agents.
Key point: evidence on an ingredient does not automatically validate the whole product.
The method does not only look for the good points. It runs several verification loops to spot the limits: evidence too weak, promise too broad, missing precaution, uncertain local availability or conflict between marketing and real-world use. See the AI agents.
Goal: keep a cautious conclusion, even when the product is appealing.
If the dossier remains clear, cautious and useful after these checks, it can be published. Otherwise the promise is lowered, reworded, or the product stays out of the selection. See the AI agents.
CosmeticFountain prefers publishing fewer products, but better verified.
The weighting is not uniform; the Evidence quality and Source independence pillars count for more than the coherence and practical-interest pillars. The exact figures will be published after final validation.
A CosmeticFountain approved product is not a magic product, nor a promise of a personal result. It means CosmeticFountain found enough serious elements to present the product with its strengths, limits, precautions and sources, without turning it into health advice.
Affiliate links may exist, but they do not decide the verdict. The site’s role is first to sort, verify and explain.
We select products relevant to the United Kingdom, 6 verification agents re-read their promises, several verification loops look for objections, and only clear, cautious, defensible dossiers are published.
