How Momclear verdicts work
We would rather tell you exactly how a result is made — including its limits — than ask you to trust a badge.
1. Getting the ingredients
You scan a barcode, photograph the ingredient panel, or paste the list. Barcodes are looked up in the openOpen Food Facts andOpen Beauty Facts databases. If a product isn't there, Momclear asks you to photograph the label instead.
2. Checking them against your stage
The ingredient list and your stage — trying to conceive, pregnant, breastfeeding, or postpartum and not breastfeeding — are sent to an AI language model (from OpenAI) with instructions focused on pregnancy and breastfeeding ingredient guidance. Your stage is part of the question, because the same ingredient can have a different answer at each stage.
Momclear is not a hand-curated medical database, and no clinician reviews individual results. That is why the next two steps exist.
3. A fixed answer format
The model must answer in a strict format: one of four outcomes, a reason for each ingredient that matters, and a list of ingredients it did not recognise. Free-form answers are not accepted.
- No concern found nothing recognised raises a concern for your stage
- Depends on how it's used the amount, strength or use changes the answer
- Ingredient concern found a recognised ingredient is usually avoided — ask a professional
- We couldn't tell not enough information to say
4. Failing safe
If the answer can't be read reliably, Momclear shows We couldn't tell — never a reassuring result by default. If some ingredients weren't recognised, a "no concern" result says so in its headline ("No concern in what we could read") and lists them, so an unchecked ingredient is never hidden behind a clean result.
5. Checking quality
Before changing the model or its instructions, we re-run a fixed set of known products and ingredients and compare the results against published guidance.
What Momclear doesn't do
- It does not cover medicines, supplement doses or symptoms — ask your pharmacist or doctor.
- It does not know how much of a product you use, or your medical history.
- A "no concern" result is not a guarantee of safety.
Our ingredient guides
The ingredient guides on this site are written differently: every statement is taken from a named source — MotherToBaby, NIH LactMed, the NHS, the FDA or peer-reviewed research — and each page shows when it was last reviewed. Where good sources disagree, we say so.
Momclear provides educational information based on recognised ingredients. It does not diagnose, treat, or replace advice from a doctor, midwife, or pharmacist. A "no concern" result is not a guarantee of safety — always check with a healthcare professional if you are unsure.