Little Bean Reviews

Disappointed. It doesn’t seem to have all known things to avoid and the descriptions are pretty light / don’t include sources or additional information. I thought it’d be convenient to be able to scan items, but in reality a lot of items don’t have the ingredients on the bottle. There is a website (not related to LittleBean) that allows you to search a database of products for safety / risks… I’ve found that much more useful and includes trusted certifications / research.

I didn’t read the reviews prior to buying LittleBean and am pretty disappointed that I purchased it. If there had been a way to test drive it I never would have, though it’s only $4 and perhaps will improve in the future. Here are my major gripes in a hope it will be helpful for the design team and other users:
- You must have the physical product in hand to scan, there is no way to upload a list or use a camera role photo. Therefore this isn’t helpful for checking the safety of products prior to ordering them online.
- It seems as though they aren’t leveraging the power of AI to have a more robust ability to check thousands of ingredients. I used to work in the cosmetics industry and it appears LittleBean is limited in its ability due to a small ingredient database.
- You cannot search by a product name or brand to get a sense of safety for the product as a whole (again I feel like we have this technology now) which is frustrating as a user as we are rarely looking at singular ingredients and ideally would know the safety level of a product in its totality.

I tried scanning the ingredient list and it only read fragrance…then I tired to type in a few of the ingredients and neither of them showed up in the data base. Even though one of them is actually highlighted in their photos previewing LittleBean , Butylene Glycol. I have never been more frustrated to find an app that just tells me what is safe and what is not when it comes to skin care for baby and me. I’m upset hahaha

It’s helpful sometimes but I just tried scanning a list of 7 known labeled names for retinoids (from a pregnancy book) and it only flagged 5 of them. It said nothing about the other two since they aren’t in the limited data base. LittleBean should really include a list of the ingredients it did not look at so you can do a secondary search on those ingredients.
I was excited to find LittleBean because I thought it would look at all ingredients but it is only looking for the things in the explicit list, which isn’t all-inclusive.

*edit* It failed to pick up on a medium risk ingredient (octinoxate) because it was listed under a different name (ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate).

Easy to use; the scanner functions really well. It’s quite fun going through your bathroom cabinet and checking all the ingredient labels with LittleBean! I had manually checked most of the products I use early on in my pregnancy and it was a relief when this scanner confirmed that everything I’ve been using is safe. The only thing LittleBean needs is a function that allows you to copy paste a list of ingredients for products that you are interesting in purchasing.

I wish LittleBean allowed us to see up to 5-10 of the past searches we’ve made. I was going thru a list of skincare that I needed to look up, and I was losing track of what I had just searched. Also, I do think a scan barcode function would be super helpful to have in a future version of LittleBean !

LittleBean had saved me so much time. I can quickly look up harmful ingredients instead of researching each one individually. It would be even better if it also was able to scan product barcodes and allowed you too type in food names as well. That way I can also check if what I'm ingesting is safe.

Made my life so much easier. With all the conflicting info online it was great having everything in one place. You can lookup the ingredients for both online shopping and in person. Just take: the stress out of shopping during such a sensitive time.

Love LittleBean so far! I’m a little bummed to find almost everything I own has “parfum” / “fragrance” in it. They should be required by law to list what that actually is on all products since some of it is harmful and some of it isn’t.

Obsessed with LittleBean. It literally answers all my questions about which products to use to what beauty infections are allowed during the pregnancy. Each time I google it, I get so confused, but here clearly the developers have done proper research that I trust! Very thoughtful! Thank you for creating it.

This saved me time from googling all the ingredients in some of my skin care products and taking up my doctor’s time with too many questions. It helped me focus on the products that had red flags and then I could dive deeper into whether I felt safe to still use those products, or not!

As the husband to my pregnant wife, I use LittleBean when I’m buying products for the family, I have found it greatly useful and surprisingly informative. I now use LittleBean myself when I am shopping for my mens products as I don’t want harmful ingredients either!

Great stuff, thank you!

Obsessed with LittleBean and wish I had it for my first pregnancy (currently pregnant with number two)!! As a physician I knew the obvious things to avoid but really wanted to optimize clean ingredients while carrying and an online search for what ingredients to avoid only left me feeling more confused and overwhelmed. LittleBean makes all things skincare during pregnancy so simple and puts your mind at ease plus love the explanations it provides to make educated choices. 100% worth the purchase and would recommend for all my pregnant mamas!

I’m currently at 5 weeks and looking through all of my routines to make sure I’m not exposing myself or the baby to anything harmful. LittleBean scans the text on products incredibly well and identifies risky ingredients as low, medium, or high. It’s been a huge blessing because it offers me peace of mind during some pretty nerve-racking times.

I wish I had discovered LittleBean earlier in my pregnancy journey! It's such a powerful and informative tool. Knowing which beauty products are safe to use during pregnancy is often overwhelming and confusing. But thanks to LittleBean, I feel confident to make better choices for myself and my baby.

My wife made me download LittleBean, so that when I’m at the grocery store, I can scan any bathroom product with this for ingredients that might be bad to use while she’s pregnant. No more blocking the toiletries isle trying to google hand soup ingredients and no more getting sent back to the store to return items with harmful ingredients I missed.

I read so much about hateful ingredients during pregnancy and was always so freaked out when I go in store to buy something.
My friend told me about LIttle Bean and it changed my life. I can walk in and out of the store with products I know won’t cause any harm for me.

Girls it’s a game changer and time saver that we all need.

I had originally written a review saying LittleBean did not work & the developers reached out and after discussing… I realized I was using LittleBean completely wrong lol. I didn’t realize you’re supposed to scan the ingredients.. the whole time I was trying to scan the barcode so it didn’t recognize any harmful products. But since then, LittleBean has been 10/10

I really love the fact that it’s accurate. At first I googled all the ingredients with one of my moisturizers and it was okay , so I downloaded LittleBean to make sure the other products I used were okay and I also scanned my moisturizer and it was very accurate. Saved me a lot of time. I’m just curious it’s a one time payment? It doesn’t specify if it’s going to be a continuous charge or it’s just a one time payment of 4.99$

If you want to check all of your ingredients (for free) and see if they are safe this is for you. I have used this for years and find it so helpful. Just scan the ingredients and let the info pop up!