Open Beauty Facts

• Look up a productLook a cosmetic up by the barcode on its pack and get everything Open Beauty Facts holds about it: the name and brand, the size, what kind of product it is, the claims on the label, the ingredient list as printed, how long it lasts after opening, where it is sold, and the photographs of the pack. A barcode nobody has entered yet, and a barcode that turns out to be a food or a pet food rather than a cosmetic, both come back as an answer saying which, rather than as an error, so a workflow can branch on it.
• Find productsSearch about 75,000 cosmetics by words, and narrow by category, brand, label, ingredient or the country a product is sold in. Use it to find a product's barcode from its name, to list every vegan deodorant, or to find what contains an ingredient. Each filter is a dropdown of values the database actually holds, so a filter that matches nothing is rare, and when it happens the result says so rather than coming back as an empty list.
• Check a product's ingredientsRead a product's ingredient list and say which of the groups people commonly avoid are in it. It knows twelve: parabens, sulfates, silicones, fragrance and its declarable allergens, drying alcohol, formaldehyde releasers, isothiazolinone preservatives, PEGs, mineral oil, aluminium salts and chemical UV filters. Each one names the ingredient that put it there. Add your own ingredients to watch for as well. It also reports the groups that are not present, because 'no parabens' is usually the answer being looked for. This reports what the list contains; it is not a safety assessment, and the list is contributed by volunteers.
• Compare productsPut two to five products side by side by barcode and work out what they share and what only one of them has: which ingredients are in every one, which are in just this one, and the categories and label claims they have in common. The answer to 'which of these two should I buy' is the difference, not two lists printed one after the other. Ingredient lists are read off photographs of the pack, so the comparison uses the entries Open Beauty Facts recognised as ingredients; each product's full list comes back with it.
• List recently added productsList the cosmetics added to Open Beauty Facts since a date, newest first, optionally only in a category, from a brand or carrying a label, or the ones edited since then instead. This is the step behind watching the database: a weekly run that reports the new vegan shampoos, or a check for anything new from a brand you stock.
• Browse brands, categories and labelsList the values 'Find products' can filter by: brands, categories, labels, ingredients or countries, most-used first, each with how many products carry it. Use it to see what a filter can be set to, to find how the database spells something, or to answer a question of its own: which label claims are most common, how many products a brand has. Open Beauty Facts publishes the hundred most-used values of each, and the result says how many there are in total.
• Get a product's photosGet the photographs Open Beauty Facts holds for a barcode: the front of the pack, the ingredient list and the packaging, at thumbnail, medium or large size. The ingredient photograph is the useful one when the ingredients have not been typed in yet: hand it to a step that reads text from images and the list is recoverable anyway.

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