Whether you've just walked out of a dermatologist's office with a patch-test result in clinical Latin, or your skin keeps reacting and you can't pin down why — AllerNote turns your specific triggers into a label-reading tool. No generic safety scores. Just your ingredients against your profile.
I'm Snehal Maheshwari — a software engineer, not a dermatologist. AllerNote started with my own patch-test result: a printout of chemical names and a single instruction to "avoid these." Then I stood in a pharmacy aisle trying to match that list against a label printed in tiny INCI nomenclature, where one allergen can hide behind a dozen different names. It was almost impossible to do by eye.
Generic "clean beauty" apps didn't help. They hand everyone the same safety score, but a product rated 100% safe is still not safe for you if it contains your specific trigger. The problem isn't a missing safety rating — it's the tedious, error-prone work of cross-checking every ingredient against a personal list of allergens and all their synonyms. That's a job software is genuinely good at, and a human in a shop is not.
So I built the tool I wished I'd had that day. AllerNote doesn't diagnose anything or override your doctor. It takes the allergens you already know — from a clinical patch test, a clinician's advice, or a long pattern of reactions — and checks every label, every product, every ingredient against your profile, synonyms included. The medicine stays with your dermatologist; AllerNote just does the reading.
— Snehal Maheshwari, founder
If any of these sound like you, you're in the right place.
Your dermatologist handed you a list of allergens in clinical Latin — linalool, MI, balsam of Peru, formaldehyde-releasers. AllerNote translates those into the names that actually appear on labels and flags every match in any product you scan.
You haven't been patch-tested, but something keeps making you break out, itch, or burn. Track the products that reacted; AllerNote surfaces the common ingredient across them so you stop guessing.
"Fragrance-free" labels lie more often than you'd think. AllerNote checks for the EU 26 fragrance allergens, MI/MCI, formaldehyde-releasers, lanolin, and other usual suspects — including the synonyms manufacturers hide them under.
Set up a separate profile for your kid, partner, or parent. Scan any product against their triggers before it goes in the cart, and share a read-only report with their dermatologist when you need to.
What AllerNote isn't: a generic "clean beauty" rating, a skin-type advisor, or a diagnostic tool. It's about your specific triggers — and the products that contain them.
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