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Your donations fund the day-to-day operations of our non-profit association:
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keeping our database open & available to all,
- technical infrastructure (website/mobile app) & a small permanent team
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remain independent of the food industry,
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engage a community of committed citizens,
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support the advancement of public health research.
Open Beauty Facts
Open your cosmetics and know what you use on your body
Be part of our collaborative, free and open database of cosmetics products from around the world!
A cosmetics products database
Open Beauty Facts is a database of cosmetics products with ingredients, allergens, indicia and all the tidbits of information we can find on product labels.
Made by everyone
Open Beauty Facts is a non-profit association of volunteers.
1800+ contributors like you have added 13,000+ products from 134 countries using our Android, iPhone or Windows Phone app or their camera to scan barcodes and upload pictures of products and their labels.
For everyone
Data about cosmetics is of public interest and has to be open. The complete database is published as open data and can be reused by anyone and for any use. Check-out the cool reuses or make your own!
Make better cosmetics choices
Knowledge is power. Cosmetics knowledge is power to pamper yourself better!
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Decode labels
Cosmetics additives, F.I.L. codes, CI-numbers, allergens, packaging codes... Open Beauty Facts helps you to make sense of the fine print on products labels.
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Find products
Our search form contains dozens of criteria against which you can match products.
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Compare and change
Do you know which shampoos have the less chemicals? In 3 clicks you can create an interactive graph to show it. So you can change for healthier shampoos, and by comparing products from different brands, you encourage producers to make them better.
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Explore and discover
Curious about cosmetics? Explore products by facets like brands, categories, labels, origins of ingredients etc. Facets can be combined to discover new insights, for instance to map the origins of ingredients that bear a fair trade label.
Cosmetics, for innovation and science
Our data can be reused for education, new products and services, research and more!
The Open Beauty Facts database is open data published under the Open Database Licence. Anyone can use it for any purpose - commercial or non-commercial - provided the source of the data is attributed and improvements to the database are shared in a similar way.
Education
How many cosmetics commercials have you seen in your life? Open data can help to see the facts under the marketing.
Products and services
Open Beauty Facts data can be reused in both non-commercial and commercial projects, as long as improvements to the database are shared as well.
Science
Open Beauty Facts data is used by scientists in different fields (Chemistry, Biology, Linked Open Data...). And you don't need a PhD to take part in citizen science!
Risks and Safety measures.
See all reuses, or check out our data to create yours!