The chemistry knowledge that powers every output.
43,000+ ingredients profiled. Hundreds of chemistry and compatibility rules. 424,000+ peer-reviewed findings. A growing academic corpus. This is the data layer that makes formulation generation, auditing, and troubleshooting possible — not generic AI, but structured chemical intelligence.
Section 01 · Unified Functional Roles
43,000+ ingredients mapped to their functional roles.
Every INCI ingredient in the platform is classified by its actual function in a formulation — emulsifier, humectant, film-former, rheology modifier, active, preservative booster, and dozens more. These aren't generic database tags. They're derived from supplier technical data, COSING classifications, and validated against real-world usage in 1.1M+ marketed products.
Section 02 · Chemistry Rules
Hundreds of chemistry rules that catch conflicts before the lab.
Anionic surfactants with cationic conditioning agents. Vitamin C below pH 3.5 destabilizing a carbomer thickening system. Retinol with AHAs causing excessive irritation. The platform encodes hundreds of validated chemistry and compatibility rules — from explicit interaction constraints to pH-dependent stability logic, functional role conflicts, and preservative system compatibility — flagging conflicts during formulation generation and audit before they waste bench time.
Anionic + Cationic
Anionic surfactants are incompatible with cationic conditioning agents — causes precipitation and loss of conditioning.
Carbomer + Low pH
Carbomer requires pH 5.5+ for full thickening yield. Formulations with direct acids below pH 4.0 need alternative thickeners.
Niacinamide + Direct Acids
Niacinamide hydrolyzes to niacin below pH 3.5 — causes flushing. Separate application or buffer to pH 5.0+.
Retinol + AHA/BHA
Combined use increases photosensitivity and irritation risk. Flag for leave-on products without adequate SPF guidance.
Section 03 · Literature Corpus
424,000+ findings extracted from peer-reviewed research.
Not abstracts — full-text extraction from 19,000+ papers indexed from PMC, Europe PMC, CORE, PubMed, and OpenAlex. Every finding is structured: ingredient, concentration, efficacy outcome, safety observation, formulation technique. This is what the platform cites when it recommends a concentration range or flags a safety concern.
Section 04 · Growing Academic Corpus
Expanding into authoritative scientific reference texts.
Published academic and scientific reference texts contain decades of validated formulation knowledge — usage levels, compatibility data, processing parameters — that no API or database provides. We're systematically extracting and structuring this knowledge to deepen the platform's chemistry intelligence.
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