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The shelf sells on ingredients and rarely explains them

37% of 38 beauty storefronts selling into the United States publish a page explaining ingredients or reading an INCI list, against 71% publishing an FAQ, in a category whose product names and marketing are built on ingredient words.

Every ingredient question a shopper has gets answered somewhere, and where there is no page it gets answered on a forum, a retailer’s guide or by a model summarising both, which means the brand is absent from the moment a stranger is deciding whether the thing is for them.

Exceptions and limits

    85

    85 of a possible 90Tier B, systematic first-party observation. Nothing at this tier is allowed past 90, however good it looks.

    Verified September 9, 2026Rechecked every 180 days, next by March 8, 2027.

    Structure

    Held since August 5, 2026How the market is physically or commercially arranged. The earliest date we are willing to say this held. It may well have been true before that; we do not backdate a record past the evidence we have read. Supported, version 1.

    This entry is wrong if

    A repeat run finds more than 40% of these storefronts publishing an ingredient or INCI page.

    Written before the record was published, not after. If you can show this, send it to hello@tryorbt.com and the correction goes on the record with the entry.

    Evidence

    1. Tier Bobserved-webn = 38

      orbt: Market Register commerce collector, run commerce-20260805140548

      Handles listed in each storefront’s own pages sitemap, grouped into questions rather than words, so “faq”, “help” and “support” count as one decision spelled three ways and the published grouping can be checked against the raw handles this run also records. It counts pages at /pages/ on the storefront being sold from. A glossary living on a separate help subdomain, or written into a product page rather than given its own, reads here as absent, which is why this says the explanation is not on the shelf and does not say the brand has never written one. Retailers are excluded from both origin groups: OLIVE YOUNG Global, Peach & Lily, Soko Glam, Stylevana. Their catalogues are other companies’ product copy, so counting them by the storefront’s own origin would put Korean listings inside the US-origin group. Run commerce-20260805140548.

      Read 2026-08-05 · CC BY · page hash 9a6ccfd5ea85

    History

    1. v1created

      Derived from collector run commerce-20260805053004.

    Append-only. Nothing in this list is edited or removed once written, including the entries that record our own mistakes. Every change to every record is on the corrections page, and the same log is in entries.json under revisions.

    • content
    • ingredients
    • inci
    • education
    • seo
    • ai-visibility
    • beauty

    Cite this entry

    “The shelf sells on ingredients and rarely explains them”, The Orbt Market Index 0.1.0, entry omr:us:beauty-storefronts-sell-on-ingredients-without-explaining-them, retrieved September 9, 2026, https://tryorbt.com/markets/entry/us--beauty-storefronts-sell-on-ingredients-without-explaining-them. Dataset: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22679129

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