Good products. Bad combination.
That is how most skincare routines fail. Not because anything in the basket was bad — because five good things were layered in a way that fought each other. Unniepick checks the whole routine, not one bottle at a time.
Why the combination is the problem
Every ingredient app judges one product in isolation and gives it a verdict. That is useful right up until you own five of them. Retinol on top of an exfoliating acid, three actives competing on the same night, vitamin C sitting in your evening routine where it does the least — none of those are bad products. They are a bad arrangement, and no single-product score will ever tell you so.
That is the gap we built for. Add what you own — or what you are thinking of buying — and we flag the clashes, split the routine into morning and night, and show what step is missing before you pay for anything.
Full ingredient lists collected and matched to their English names — not just the marketing copy on the front of the box.
Rankings come from what shoppers outside Korea actually bought and rated, not from an editor's shortlist.
Vitamin C belongs in the morning, retinoids at night, and acids don't want company. We sort your routine into the two halves of the day.
Morning and night are different jobs
Morning skincare defends — hydration under sunscreen, antioxidants against the day. Night repairs, which is when retinoids and acids do their work and when your skin can afford to be a little irritated. Put those in the wrong half of the day and you get the downside of an active without the benefit.
So every routine we analyze comes back in two columns rather than one list. It is the simplest thing we do and the one people tell us changed their routine most.
What we will not do
We will tell you when something is not worth buying, when a cheaper product does the same job, and when the sensible answer is to use what you already own. Rankings are ordered by verified international review counts and by what is in the bottle — never by who is paying. Where a link takes you to a shop, we say so.
Get in touch
If a ranking looks wrong, an ingredient list is out of date, or a product has been reformulated, tell us and we will check it — corrections are the fastest way to make this more useful. Brands and press are welcome too.
Start with what you own
Add a few products to My Routine and you will see the clashes, the AM/PM split, and the gap in about ten seconds. Nothing is bought here and no account is needed.