Use Cases
Paste one ingredient list or query an API for one product — get similar formulations, regulatory flags, and catalog frequency back in seconds, no data pipeline required.
A formulator mid-development wants one answer right now: does this preservative combination show up elsewhere in the market, and does any ingredient in this draft carry a known EU or US restriction? A brand team eyeing a competitor's listing wants to know how many other products share a similar formulation. Neither of these is a recurring, whole-catalog audit — it's a single, ad-hoc question that needs an answer in the next few minutes, not after a pipeline is built.
The tooling built for bulk compliance review (see our Ingredient & Compliance Review use case) is the right tool for auditing thousands of SKUs on a schedule via the Products API, but it's the wrong shape for a one-off spot-check — nobody wants to write an API integration just to check a single formula before a product-development meeting.
The Ingredient Analysis product covers exactly this gap, two ways: paste an ingredient list into the portal tool and get an instant read, or call the Ingredients API (GET /api/v1/ingredient_analysis) from your own code to search the catalog by ingredient or pull a known product's full ingredient breakdown. Both draw from the same subscription and monthly request budget — pick whichever fits the moment.
Results come back immediately: match percentage against similar catalog products, how common each matched ingredient is right now and where it typically sits in the ingredient list, and EU/US regulatory restrictions flagged inline from CosIng, FDA color additive, and Prop 65 data — all from the same normalized ingredient data behind our Products API and datasets.
Higher tiers add similar-product matching (ranked by ingredient overlap, top 10 or top 50 results) and brand-level insights — which brands' formulations most closely resemble the one just analyzed, and across how many retailers.
How this typically plays out for a team using BeautyFeeds data.
A product developer pastes a draft formula into the portal tool before a development review, sees which EU/US restrictions apply to anything in the list, and pulls up the three closest catalog matches to gut-check positioning against existing products — all in the same meeting, no data request filed in advance.
A competitive-intelligence analyst instead calls the Ingredients API directly: GET /api/v1/ingredient_analysis?ingredient=NIACINAMIDE,RETINOL to see which competitor products already combine both actives, or GET /api/v1/ingredient_analysis?uniq_id=<uniq_id> to pull the full ingredient breakdown for one specific competitor SKU they're benchmarking against.
Because it's the same underlying ingredient data as the bulk-audit workflow, a team can start here for exploratory spot-checks and graduate to the Products API's inci_format field later if the same check needs to run automatically across an entire catalog on a schedule.
This is a separate plan and subscription from the Products API — Free, Starter, Pro, and Enterprise tiers, priced by monthly request volume across both the portal tool and the API combined. Free covers the basic match list for evaluation; Starter adds full regulatory/allergen detail and colorant lookups; Pro and Enterprise add similar-product matching and brand insights. See app.beautyfeeds.io/plans for current pricing.
Product formulators and brand chemists doing pre-launch spot-checks, indie brand founders who want a quick regulatory sanity check without an engineering integration, and competitive-intelligence or insights teams benchmarking one product at a time are the primary users here — a lighter-weight, faster-turnaround counterpart to the compliance team's scheduled, whole-catalog audit workflow.
Subscribe to the Free tier and paste a real ingredient list to see the basic match output immediately — no integration work needed to evaluate whether the data quality fits your use case.
If regulatory flags, colorant data, or similar-product matching turn out to be what you actually need day to day, upgrading to Starter or Pro unlocks those in the same portal tool and the same API, on the same request budget.
Is this the same as the Ingredient & Compliance Review use case? No — that one covers bulk, scheduled auditing of an entire catalog via the Products API's inci_format field. This is the ad-hoc, one-question-at-a-time version: a portal tool and a lightweight API for checking a single ingredient list or product on demand.
Do the portal tool and the API share usage limits? Yes — one subscription, one monthly request budget, whichever surface you use.
Does the free tier include regulatory flags or similar products? No — Free returns the basic ingredient match list and summary only, meant for evaluating data quality before upgrading.
Can I use this for a whole catalog instead of one-off lookups? You can call the API repeatedly, but a bulk, scheduled audit across a full catalog is what the Products API's inci_format field and the Ingredient & Compliance Review workflow are built for instead.
Tell us about your use case and we'll help you find the right plan and fields.