Support the Free Safety Database
Roots by Benda is a free structured cosmetic and chemical safety database: source-traced toxicology, regulatory status, and ingredient safety data built for people who need answers without an enterprise contract. This platform replaces data that costs €16,000/year on competing platforms. We made it free because the underlying sources are public. Help us keep it that way.
What We Are
We are building public safety infrastructure across five verticals: Ingredients, Chemicals, Pharma, Food, and Cannabis. Built by a human-AI partnership, the platform turns public regulatory and toxicology sources into searchable evidence for formulators, assessors, indie brands, educators, researchers, and people who want to understand what is in the products around them.
The free layer stays free because safety data should be usable before a team has a procurement department.
What We Are Not
- Not a corporation optimizing for lock-in.
- Not VC-funded and pushed toward growth-at-all-costs.
- Not running ads against health and safety searches.
substances across 5 verticals
authoritative sources
ingredient profiles, 1.18M NOAEL records
What Support Covers
Free does not mean costless. Keeping the database useful means paying for the quiet work behind it: servers, source retrieval, verification passes, and API infrastructure.
Server Hosting
Search, pages, database reads, and uptime for public access.
Data Verification
Line-by-line checks against source documents and regulatory records.
Source Retrieval
PDFs, dossiers, regulatory lists, and archival documents.
API Infrastructure
Structured access, abuse controls, caching, and future integrations.
Choose a Support Level
Every tier points at the same goal: keeping public safety data available, current, and source-traced.
Where Your Support Goes
Data verification
34%Manual review, source matching, and correction work.
Hosting and API
26%Database reads, caching, uptime, and abuse-resistant access.
Source retrieval
22%Regulatory PDFs, public datasets, archives, and document processing.
Maintenance
18%Fixes, monitoring, search quality, and public-page upkeep.
“Safety data shouldn’t be locked behind a paywall. We removed the toll booth.”