Most supplement labels are built to hide the dose. We read them line by line.
We compare what is printed on the bottle against the dose the research actually used, score every product on the same five things, and flag the blends that hide the rest. No marketing language. Just the label, read closely.
Four rules we do not bend.
Research first
The standard is the dose and form used in the peer-reviewed studies, not the marketing.
The whole label
We read every line, in milligrams, not the front-of-bottle claim.
No blend excuses
A proprietary blend that hides the dose is a red flag, not a feature.
We show the work
The criteria are printed on every guide, so you can check our math.
Five things decide whether a bottle does anything.
Marketing changes by the season. These do not. We read the same five things for every product in a category, then rank what is left.
Dose
Is the active at the amount the research used, or a token sprinkle that lets the label say the word?
Form
Is it the form the body can actually absorb and the studies tested, or the cheapest version of the ingredient?
Transparency
Is every dose printed on the label, or buried inside a proprietary blend you are not allowed to see?
Third-party testing
Is there batch testing and a Certificate of Analysis, or a purity claim with nothing behind it?
Formula
Is the formula focused on what the category needs, or padded with names that look good on a label?
Three steps, the same for every product.
Start with the research
We pull the peer-reviewed literature for each ingredient and note the dose and form the studies actually used. That becomes the standard everything is measured against.
Read the whole label
We compare every product to that standard, milligram by milligram. Proprietary blends that hide the dose get flagged. Where a Certificate of Analysis exists, we check it.
Score and show the work
Each product is scored on the same five criteria and ranked. The criteria sit on every guide in plain sight, so the result is something you can audit, not just trust.
Why this exists.
Before Clean Label Report, Megan spent a decade in retail wellness, close enough to the industry to know exactly how a supplement label gets dressed up.
She started Clean Label Report after years of squinting at supplement labels for her own family and finding the same trick everywhere: the ingredient you came for, buried in a "proprietary blend" with no dose you could actually see.
Clean Label Report is her answer. Every guide compares what is printed on the bottle against the dose and form the published research used, scores it on the same five criteria, and shows the work. No clinical alphabet soup, no borrowed authority, no chasing the brands that spend the most. Just the label, read the way it should be.
Independent criteria. Published methodology. When we are compensated, we say so.
We do not rate marketing, and we do not move a product up the list because a brand asked. The five criteria are the same for everyone, and they are printed on every page.