Editorial standards
How this publication handles evidence, disclosure, corrections and claims.
This is not the Method
The Method explains how a product is observed and tested. This page explains how the publication represents that evidence: what is disclosed, how errors are corrected, and what the observations do not prove. If you came here to read how testing works, the Method is the page you want.
These standards are proposed, not adopted. They were drafted during development and have not been reviewed or approved by Zina Almokri. They describe intended practice and should not yet be relied on as a published commitment.
The standards
- Disclosure
- Every review states its commercial status above the content: bought independently, gifted, or paid. Paid placements never come with agreed verdicts.
- Corrections
- Errors are corrected in place, with the change and its date recorded in the review update log rather than removed.
- Ratings
- This site does not publish numeric scores. A number makes comparison easy and hides the reason, and the reason is the product.
- Authorship
- Reviews are written from first-hand testing. Testing observations, photographs and verdicts are not generated.
- Medical boundary
- Nothing on this site is medical, clinical or dermatological advice. Persistent skin concerns belong with a qualified professional.
What this publication does not do
- No laboratory testing is performed, and no independent laboratory verifies any result published here.
- Nothing published here is peer reviewed, scientifically validated, or reviewed by any external body.
- No medical or dermatological professional reviews this content, and none of it is clinical advice.
- Every observation is one person's experience of one unit of a product, in the conditions recorded with it. It is not a claim about how the product behaves for anyone else.
See it applied
- Reviews Every record carries its disclosure above the content
- The Six-Stage Test The six stages a record is built from