1. Sources we crawled
- 2 Reddit threads across 1 subreddit
- 1 retailer rating (Sephora / Ulta etc — for AggregateRating only)
2. What we filtered out
- 0 sponsored posts (#ad / paid partnership detected)
- 0 brand-affiliated accounts (creator handle contains brand name)
- Retailer-side reviews (Sephora / Ulta) are excluded from evidence sections — used only for the AggregateRating block
3. How findings were organised
All evidence was tagged to one of 15 purchase-decision dimensions from the moisturizer Playbook:
Hydration intensity · Non-greasy texture · Works under makeup · Gentle for sensitive · Anti-aging · Barrier repair · Oil control for oily skin · Formula stability · …
For each (source × dimension), we asked claude-haiku-4-5 to produce a one-sentence finding that must contain a ratio number (“4 of 6”, “All 8”) derivable from the actual evidence rows. Findings without ratio numbers fail our spam-check gate and don’t reach this page.
4. Freshness
- Most recent evidence scraped: 5 days ago
- Findings last computed by LLM: 5 days ago
Pages are re-crawled when evidence ages past category-specific thresholds. See methodology for refresh policy.
Besides is a research tool, not an editorial publication. The numbers above describe how this specific page was assembled. No human beauty-editor reviewed individual quotes — but every page must pass structural quality checks (originality, source diversity, content depth) before it’s allowed on the site.
