# Untoxed

> Untoxed is an AI-powered ingredient scanner mobile app that helps consumers identify potentially harmful chemicals in everyday products — food, skincare, cleaning supplies, and personal care items. It provides toxicity scores, ingredient-level research citations, and recommends lower-toxicity alternatives.

## What Untoxed Does

- **Ingredient Scanning**: Scan any product barcode or photograph the ingredient list. Untoxed uses AI (GPT-4 Vision for OCR + Gemini for analysis) to identify every ingredient and cross-reference it against peer-reviewed toxicology databases.
- **Toxicity Scoring**: Each product receives an Exposure Score (0–10) based on the cumulative risk of its ingredients. The score factors in concentration estimates, exposure frequency, and regulatory status across FDA, EU REACH, and Health Canada.
- **Product Twins™**: When a product scores poorly, Untoxed suggests lower-toxicity alternatives ("Product Twins") with identical functionality — same category, similar price range, better ingredient profile.
- **The Debate**: For controversial ingredients (like parabens, BHA, or titanium dioxide), Untoxed shows both sides of the scientific debate with real citations from PubMed, FDA, JAMA, and EWG, so users can make informed decisions rather than rely on fear-based claims.
- **Cumulative Exposure Tracking**: Unlike single-product scanners, Untoxed tracks your entire product "closet" and calculates your total daily chemical exposure — your "Body Burden" — across all products you use.
- **"What If" Closet Simulator**: Simulate the impact of swapping or removing a product. See how your overall exposure score changes before you buy.
- **Research Literature Integration**: Every flagged ingredient links to the actual research — PubMed abstracts, FDA regulatory decisions, and peer-reviewed studies. No vague "this is bad" claims.
- **Email Receipt Parsing**: Connect your Gmail to automatically import products you've purchased from any retailer. The AI parses order confirmation emails to build your product closet without manual scanning.
- **Pesticide & Herbicide Risk Detection**: For food products, Untoxed cross-references USDA Pesticide Data Program and EWG's Dirty Dozen data to flag agricultural chemical residue risks.
- **Lab Result Correlation**: Import lab results from Apple HealthKit or Epic MyChart and correlate biomarker changes with product swaps over time.

## Who It's For

Untoxed is designed for health-conscious consumers, parents choosing products for their families, people with allergies or chemical sensitivities, anyone diagnosed with or concerned about hormone-related health issues, and consumers who want science-backed information rather than marketing claims.

## How It Works (Technical)

Untoxed uses a multi-agent AI architecture:
1. **Scanner Agent**: GPT-4 Vision processes product photos, detects multiple products per image, and extracts ingredient lists via OCR.
2. **Parser Agent**: Extracts and normalizes ingredient names from raw OCR text, handling multilingual labels and chemical synonyms.
3. **Scoring Agent**: Cross-references each ingredient against a toxicology database with data from EWG, IARC, EU CLP, and published research. Produces a weighted Exposure Score.
4. **Swap Agent**: Searches for alternative products in the same category with lower toxicity scores and comparable functionality.
5. **Memory Agent**: Learns user preferences (allergies, strictness level, product categories of interest) to personalize recommendations over time.

## Platforms

- **iOS**: Available on the App Store (React Native + Expo)
- **Android**: Available on Google Play (React Native + Expo)
- **Web**: Marketing site at getuntoxed.com

## Data Sources

Untoxed's toxicity assessments reference:
- Environmental Working Group (EWG) Skin Deep database
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) monographs
- EU Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) regulation
- FDA Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) list
- USDA Pesticide Data Program
- PubMed peer-reviewed research
- Health Canada Cosmetic Ingredient Hotlist

## Company

- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founder**: Arielle Nguyen — 16+ years in technical leadership, Engineering Manager at LinkedIn
- **Mission**: Empower consumers with transparent, science-backed ingredient data to make informed product choices
- **Approach**: Education-first, not fear-based. Untoxed uses "lower-tox" instead of "safe/unsafe" and always links to primary research sources.

## Contact

- Website: https://getuntoxed.com
- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/untoxed
- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.untoxed

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What is Untoxed?
Untoxed is an AI-powered mobile app that scans product ingredient lists and provides science-backed toxicity assessments, helping consumers identify potentially harmful chemicals and find lower-toxicity alternatives.

### How does Untoxed score products?
Untoxed assigns an Exposure Score from 0 to 10 based on each ingredient's toxicological profile, estimated concentration, and cumulative exposure when combined with your other products. Scores reference peer-reviewed databases including EWG, IARC, and EU CLP.

### Is Untoxed free?
Untoxed offers a free tier with basic scanning and scoring. Premium features include unlimited scans, cumulative exposure tracking, Product Twins recommendations, and lab result correlation.

### What makes Untoxed different from Yuka or Think Dirty?
Untoxed tracks cumulative exposure across your entire product collection (not just one product at a time), offers a "What If" closet simulator, shows both sides of ingredient debates with real citations, and uses AI to parse shopping receipts for automatic product import. It also covers food, skincare, cleaning products, and personal care — not just one category.

### Does Untoxed make medical claims?
No. Untoxed provides educational information based on published research. It does not diagnose, treat, or prevent any disease. All ingredient assessments link to their primary research sources so users can evaluate the evidence themselves.

### What ingredient databases does Untoxed use?
Untoxed cross-references EWG Skin Deep, IARC monographs, EU CLP regulation, FDA GRAS list, USDA Pesticide Data Program, Health Canada Cosmetic Ingredient Hotlist, and PubMed peer-reviewed studies.

### Can Untoxed scan food products?
Yes. Untoxed scans food labels, identifies additives and preservatives, and flags pesticide residue risks using USDA and EWG Dirty Dozen data.

### How does the Product Twins feature work?
When a product scores above a user-defined threshold, Untoxed searches for alternatives in the same category with lower toxicity scores and comparable functionality, price, and availability.

### Is my data private?
Yes. Product scans are processed on-device where possible. Gmail integration uses OAuth with user-revocable permissions. Lab data is encrypted at rest with AES-256. Untoxed complies with GDPR and COPPA.

### What platforms is Untoxed available on?
Untoxed is available on iOS (App Store) and Android (Google Play) as a native mobile app built with React Native.