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Skincare for melanin-rich skin

Made for the
depth of your skin.

Dark spots, hyperpigmentation, and uneven tone behave differently on deeper skin. Melaura is the app and brand built around that truth, not retrofitted for it.

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The app

Everything your skincare aisle skips for deeper tones.

Most ingredient checkers are tuned to one kind of skin. Melaura starts from yours.

Core feature

Ingredient scanner

Point your camera at any label. Every ingredient gets a verdict tuned to melanin-rich skin not a generic safety rating copied from a whitelist.

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Live scan
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Skin quiz

Two minutes. Your Fitzpatrick type, your concerns, your budget. The entire app: scanner verdicts, routine steps, dupe picks, shapes itself around the answers.

Built for types IV – VI

Daily use

Routine builder

A sequenced AM and PM routine around your tone and concerns. No conflicting actives, no guessing what order things go in.

AM + PMsteps ordered for you
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Dupe finder

Same actives, half the price. Matched on what matters: concentration, pH, and Fitzpatrick compatibility, not just brand name.

avg. 60%cheaper than the original
Long game

Progress tracking

PIH takes months to fade. Log your routine and watch marks shift week by week with photo comparison built in.

8 – 12 wkstypical fade window for PIH
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Built for your biology

Melanin-rich skin makes more pigment and holds onto marks longer.

Every recommendation in Melaura is run through that reality. The ingredient verdicts, the routine steps, the spot-fading priorities, all filtered by Fitzpatrick type, not retrofitted from generic research.

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Ingredient education

Know what your skincare is actually doing.

Some actives fade dark marks. A few can deepen them. On melanin-rich skin the difference is everything, so we label it plainly.

Holy grails for hyperpigmentation
Azelaic acidno notes Tranexamic acidno notes Alpha arbutinno notes Vitamin Cno notes Niacinamideno notes Kojic acidno notes Retinolno notes
Red flags
Hydroquinonehard pass High % glycolichard pass Fragrance / parfumhard pass Denatured alcoholhard pass Citrus oilshard pass
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Our approach

Deeper skin makes more melanin, holds onto marks longer, and reacts to irritation by darkening instead of just reddening.

  • 01 Tone-first, not one-size Every recommendation filters through Fitzpatrick type and your specific concerns before it reaches you.
  • 02 Marks are the priority Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation can outlast the original breakout by months. We treat the mark, not just the cause.
  • 03 Plain-language labels No marketing language. Just what an ingredient does for skin like yours, and when to be careful with it.
  • 04 Budget is welcome Great skincare is not a price tier. Drugstore holy grails sit next to the splurges without apology.
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