Source-Linked Safety Data. Free.
Roots by Benda is a free structured safety database for professionals who need cosmetic and chemical safety evidence that can be checked against the original source.
What It Is
Roots by Benda is a structured safety database spanning five verticals: Cosmetic Ingredients with 30,000+ profiles, Chemicals with 1.25M substances, Pharma, Food Safety, and Cannabis.
Every claim links to its primary source: ECHA dossiers, SCCS opinions, CIR reviews, and EPA CompTox. Not AI-generated summaries. Source-linked, verifiable data.
Why It Is Free
This data comes from public regulatory sources. We gathered it, structured it, and cross-referenced it, but the underlying sources are public.
After deep consideration, we decided gating public data behind a paywall is not right. All data is free to signed-up users. Account creation exists only to prevent automated scraping.
Built for Verification
In a world where AI fabricates safety data with confidence, every claim on Roots links to its primary source. We did not just make the data free. We made it verifiable.
The Numbers
cosmetic ingredient profiles
chemical substances
NOAEL study records
pre-calculated Margin of Safety values
pages indexed by Google
countries using Roots
weekly AI platform referrals from Google, Bing, ChatGPT, and Perplexity
safety data verticals
How It Was Built
Roots was built by a human-AI partnership: one domain expert who leveraged AI to build the most accessible all-in-one platform for cosmetic and chemical safety.
The Differentiator
A cosmetic assessor can put our NOAEL value in a safety report and defend it to an auditor because the source link goes to the SCCS opinion PDF, not "according to available data."
Who Uses It
From Taipei to Jakarta to Milan to Istanbul, professionals doing real safety work at their desks use Roots to find source-linked answers.
Support
This platform costs real money to maintain: about $1,000/month for hosting, data verification, and source retrieval. We are not asking for charity. We are asking for sustainability, so the public keeps having free access and we keep building.
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