Cosmetic Ingredient Database

{ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "FAQPage", "mainEntity": [{ "@type": "Question", "name": "Why use our cosmetic ingredient database?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Ingredient lists are written in INCI, a naming system built for regulators rather than shoppers. The label says Butyrospermum Parkii Butter when it means shea butter, and Tocopherol when it means vitamin E. This database translates all of it. Search any ingredient and you get what it does in plain English, how common it is across real products, and exactly what EU law says about it — including maximum permitted concentrations where they exist." } },{ "@type": "Question", "name": "Where does the ingredient data come from?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Two public, authoritative sources. Ingredient names, functions and identifiers come from the European Commission's CosIng database, the official EU cosmetic ingredient glossary, via the Open Beauty Facts taxonomy. Restrictions, permitted concentrations and allergen labelling rules come directly from Annexes II to VI of EU Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009. Product counts come from Open Beauty Facts, an open database of 74,799 catalogued cosmetic products. Every ingredient page links back to its sources so you can verify any figure yourself." } },{ "@type": "Question", "name": "Is the cosmetic ingredient database free to use?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Yes. It is completely free, there is no account required, and there is no limit on how many ingredients you can look up. The underlying data is open — CosIng is published under CC BY 4.0 and Open Beauty Facts under the Open Database License." } },{ "@type": "Question", "name": "What do the coloured labels on each ingredient mean?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Green labels are what the ingredient does for skin or hair, such as Hydrating, Exfoliating or Antioxidant. Blue labels are the job it performs in the formula, such as Emulsifier, Preservative or Solvent — both come from the official EU function vocabulary. Red labels are things worth knowing, such as Restricted in the EU or Must be declared as an allergen. Hover any red label and it tells you exactly why, citing the regulation or stating plainly that it is an inference from the ingredient name." } },{ "@type": "Question", "name": "How many ingredients does it cover, and how current is it?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "22,270 ingredients, which is effectively the whole EU cosmetic ingredient glossary. Around 21,700 carry official declared functions and 3,236 have verified product usage. The regulatory data reflects the CosIng annexes as last updated by the European Commission, and product counts are refreshed from Open Beauty Facts, which updates continuously — so a count may differ by a few products from the live figure at any moment." } },{ "@type": "Question", "name": "Does it give medical or safety advice?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "No. It reports what regulators and open databases record, not what is safe for you personally. Two deliberate limits are worth knowing. There are no comedogenic or irritancy ratings, because no citable source exists for those across 22,000 ingredients and inventing them would be misleading. And where a fact is unknown, the tool omits it rather than guessing — so a missing label means we do not know, never that the answer is no. For anything affecting a skin condition, allergy or pregnancy, speak to a pharmacist or dermatologist." } }] }