Neutral Skincare Reference MCP Server

com.mhsbloom/neutral-skincare-reference

answering

Neutral Skincare Reference is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Neutral, payment-blind reference of 1,682 dermacosmetic products: lookup, search, alternatives.

Uptime history 42 hours of history

42 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

124 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add neutral-skincare-reference --transport http https://europe-west3-mhs-bloom.cloudfunctions.net/bloomMcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "neutral-skincare-reference": {
      "url": "https://europe-west3-mhs-bloom.cloudfunctions.net/bloomMcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.neutral-skincare-reference]
url = "https://europe-west3-mhs-bloom.cloudfunctions.net/bloomMcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "neutral-skincare-reference": {
      "url": "https://europe-west3-mhs-bloom.cloudfunctions.net/bloomMcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "neutral-skincare-reference": {
      "url": "https://europe-west3-mhs-bloom.cloudfunctions.net/bloomMcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

alternatives

find_alternatives

Given a product, return other products in the SAME category from the catalog, listed neutrally (alphabetical, never ranked). This is discovery, not a recommendation — the personal best-fit and price-tiered alternatives live in the app.

brands

list_brands

List the dermacosmetic brands covered in MHS BLOOM's reference, with how many products each has.

lookup

lookup_product

Identify a dermacosmetic product in MHS BLOOM's neutral reference and return its descriptive facts (brand, key ingredients, the concerns it's oriented toward, texture, fragrance, price band, who it's aimed at) plus a link to its reference page. Descriptive only — not a personal skin verdict.

products

search_products

Search MHS BLOOM's reference for products by any of: key ingredient (e.g. "niacinamide"), skin concern (e.g. "blemishes"), category (e.g. "sunscreen"), brand, and/or fragrance_free. Returns a neutral, alphabetical list with reference links. Never ranked or rated.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://europe-west3-mhs-bloom.cloudfunctions.net/bloomMcp	streamable-http	answering	109 ms	5 min ago

Neutral Skincare Reference — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Neutral Skincare Reference do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_alternatives, list_brands, lookup_product, search_products. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Neutral Skincare Reference working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 124 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Neutral Skincare Reference?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Neutral Skincare Reference need an API key?

No. Neutral Skincare Reference completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Neutral Skincare Reference?

It answers our handshake in 124 ms on average, which is faster than 79% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.