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About Bearing

About Bearing

About Bearing

What we are

Bearing is a research-first guide to what’s actually worth your attention — beginning with Asian beauty, and built to grow into books, tea, home goods, and travel. We exist on one premise: most recommendations you read online haven’t been checked. Ours have. We are not an influencer account, a skincare startup, or a review mill.

Bearing is a research-first guide to what’s actually worth your attention — beginning with Asian beauty, and built to grow into books, tea, home goods, and travel. We exist on one premise: most recommendations you read online haven’t been checked. Ours have. We are not an influencer account, a skincare startup, or a review mill.

Bearing is a research-first guide to what’s actually worth your attention — beginning with Asian beauty, and built to grow into books, tea, home goods, and travel. We exist on one premise: most recommendations you read online haven’t been checked. Ours have. We are not an influencer account, a skincare startup, or a review mill.

What we actually do

Every guide starts with a claim someone is making, and a question about whether it holds up. We read the underlying clinical and scientific literature before we read anyone else’s blog post about it. We check whether a “clinically proven” claim is backed by a study on the actual product, or borrowed from research on something related but different. We reject far more than we recommend.

Every guide starts with a claim someone is making, and a question about whether it holds up. We read the underlying clinical and scientific literature before we read anyone else’s blog post about it. We check whether a “clinically proven” claim is backed by a study on the actual product, or borrowed from research on something related but different. We reject far more than we recommend.

Every guide starts with a claim someone is making, and a question about whether it holds up. We read the underlying clinical and scientific literature before we read anyone else’s blog post about it. We check whether a “clinically proven” claim is backed by a study on the actual product, or borrowed from research on something related but different. We reject far more than we recommend.

Our standards

Evidence over hype

If the strongest evidence for an ingredient comes from a delivery method the product doesn’t use, we say so plainly.

Specific claims get specific checks

We name real products and compare stated claims to demonstrated results.

We disclose our own limits

Where a finding is based on a small sample or a source with a commercial interest, we say so in the piece itself.

No pay-for-play, ever

We do not accept payment or free product in exchange for a favorable mention.

Who’s behind this

Bearing was founded by Tina Dorr, a PhD chemist and patent attorney. That background exists here as a tool, not a mascot. The goal is a place you can trust the way you’d trust a friend who happens to have spent a career reading fine print for a living.

Bearing was founded by Tina Dorr, a PhD chemist and patent attorney. That background exists here as a tool, not a mascot. The goal is a place you can trust the way you’d trust a friend who happens to have spent a career reading fine print for a living.

Bearing was founded by Tina Dorr, a PhD chemist and patent attorney. That background exists here as a tool, not a mascot. The goal is a place you can trust the way you’d trust a friend who happens to have spent a career reading fine print for a living.

If you find an error in anything we’ve published, we want to hear about it.

If you find an error in anything we’ve published, we want to hear about it.

If you find an error in anything we’ve published, we want to hear about it.

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