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Every number on rootsbybenda.com traces back to either a live query on our production database, or a primary source we can link you to.
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Our database — live values
Every card in this section shows the live count from our production D1 database, along with the exact SQL query that produces it. These numbers are fetched on every page load (cached for 5 minutes at the browser, 1 hour at the edge).
30,553
Total ingredients
Compounds in our structured safety database
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ingredients
3.1× ChemComply (10,000 — the only competitor who publishes a count)
Live from benda-ingredients D1
38,411
Unique NOAEL study records
Deduplicated toxicological study records with No-Observed-Adverse-Effect-Level values from REACH, SCCS, COSMOS, FDA, CIR, and Health Canada
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM noael_studies
Coptis Tox has ~3,000 flat NOAEL values. We have 12.8× more unique study records.
Live from benda-ingredients D1
3,608
Unique CAS numbers with NOAEL data
Distinct substances (by CAS registry number) with at least one study-level NOAEL
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT cas_number) FROM noael_studies WHERE cas_number IS NOT NULL
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57,580
Confidence-scored MoS calculations
Pre-calculated Margin of Safety values across 20 SCCS product categories — each tagged with a data confidence tier (SCCS-validated, REACH-sourced, or LOAEL-corrected). Quarantined data excluded from this count.
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM calculated_mos WHERE data_confidence NOT LIKE 'quarantined%' AND data_confidence NOT LIKE 'suspect%'
No competitor has pre-calculated MoS at this scale — at any price.
Live from benda-ingredients D1
3,080
SCCS-validated MoS calculations
MoS values where our NOAEL was verified against the actual SCCS published opinion — the gold standard for cosmetic safety assessment.
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM calculated_mos WHERE data_confidence IN ('sccs_validated', 'trusted_source')
Live from benda-ingredients D1
234
Gold-tier substances
Substances with measured dermal absorption + full SCCS methodology applied
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT cas_number) FROM calculated_mos WHERE da_tier = 'gold'
Live from benda-ingredients D1
3,193
Silver-tier substances
Substances with NOAEL data + SCCS default 50% DA
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT cas_number) FROM calculated_mos WHERE da_tier = 'silver'
Live from benda-ingredients D1
230
Substances with measured dermal absorption
Distinct CAS numbers with at least one empirical DA measurement
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT cas_number) FROM dermal_absorption
HuskinDB public database: 73 substances. We have 3.2× more.
Live from benda-ingredients D1
860
Dermal absorption records
Individual DA measurements across 5 cross-referenced databases
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM dermal_absorption
Live from benda-ingredients D1
354
SCCS/SCCP opinion PDFs fully extracted
European Commission scientific opinions on cosmetic ingredients, parsed and structured
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT source_pdf) FROM sccs_pdf_extractions
Live from benda-ingredients D1
7,370
Quantitative records from SCCS opinions
Individual extracted data points (NOAEL, DA, MoS, SED, conclusions) from the PDFs
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sccs_pdf_extractions
Live from benda-ingredients D1
700,764
Rows traceable AND clickable to a primary source on disk
KAIROS #13 binary rule (April 14, 2026): every row across 14 fact tables (calculated_mos, noael_studies, ingredients, ghs_classifications, substance_identifiers, sensitization_assays, cir_safety_conclusions, dermal_absorption, cosing annexes II-VI, eu_clp_annex_vi) where (a) src_verification_status is in the verified set (sampled_verified, full_verified, salvaged_*, sampled_verified_external) AND (b) src_local_path is populated and points to an actual file on the build machine. Bulletproof = both conditions. Status alone is a guess; status + local_path is an address you can cd into. Out of 700,745 total fact rows the live count above is what passes both gates.
SUM(verified AND src_local_path NOT NULL) across 14 fact tables
No regulatory SaaS competitor publishes a binary source-traceability metric at this granularity — the count above is the highest-stringency provenance claim we can defend.
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700,764
Total fact rows across the 14 safety tables
Denominator for the bulletproof percentage. Sum of row counts across calculated_mos, noael_studies, ingredients, ghs_classifications, substance_identifiers, sensitization_assays, cir_safety_conclusions, dermal_absorption, cosing annexes II-VI, eu_clp_annex_vi.
SELECT SUM(COUNT(*)) across 14 fact tables
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106,951
NOAEL/MoS rows value cross-checked against ToxValDB or PDF source
Scope: calculated_mos (68,540 rows) + noael_studies (38,392 rows) = 106,932 tox-value-bearing rows eligible for cross-check. The count above is the subset where the stored NOAEL/MoS value has been confirmed within 2-10% tolerance against EPA ToxValDB ECHA IUCLID (71,242-row re-extraction of ECHA data) or PDF-verified against the SCCS opinion it claims to come from. Other tables (annexes, GHS, substance_identifiers, etc.) are authority-attributed but not NOAEL/MoS-bearing, so they are not eligible for this cross-check metric.
COUNT(*) FROM calculated_mos + noael_studies WHERE src_verification_status IN (full_verified, sampled_verified)
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30
Primary-source authorities in the registry
Canonical source_definitions table with url_pattern, doc_id_format, extraction_method, local_archive_path, retrieval_frequency, and qa_weight for each authority we attribute data to. Adding a new data source = one row in this registry.
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT authority_short) FROM source_definitions
Live from benda-ingredients D1
The category — primary-sourced facts
Every card in this section is a claim about a specific competitor, vendor, or market structure — each backed by a primary source link or citation. Zero hearsay. The EPA contract card is the crown jewel: a government procurement record nobody can dispute.
Irrefutable — Federal Contract
$49,440 / yr
Chemwatch GoldFFX (20.7× Roots Pro)
The US Environmental Protection Agency paid this for cosmetic ingredient safety database access.
Public federal procurement record. Search HigherGov.com for contract number 68HERD22P0050.
$25,000 / yr
3E Insight (10.5× Roots Pro)
Price confirmed by a regulatory professional on r/chemistry.
Source
Reddit r/chemistry verbatim user quote, August 2025
See brainstorming/seo/verified-user-quotes-for-linkedin.md for the exact thread and quote.
~$17,200 / yr
Coptis Suite Starter (7.2× Roots Pro)
Entry-level tier of the leading cosmetic PLM platform used by Shiseido and others.
Source
Capterra / SoftwareAdvice published listing (€16,000/yr)
Published on Capterra, the standard B2B software review aggregator.
$35,115 / yr
UL WERCSmart Standard (14.7× Roots Pro)
Standard tier for 100 products.
Source
UL's own 2025 published price list
Published by UL — the only enterprise vendor in the category that publishes a full price list.
$211,872 / yr
Veeva CosmoSoft (median) (88.7× Roots Pro)
Median actual transaction for Veeva Vault CosmoSoft cosmetic regulatory platform.
Source
Vendr verified transaction data
Vendr is a procurement intelligence platform that aggregates verified purchase data.
$501,612 / yr
Veeva CosmoSoft (high) (210× Roots Pro)
Upper-tier observed contract value for Veeva CosmoSoft.
Source
Vendr verified transaction data
Vendr is a procurement intelligence platform that aggregates verified purchase data.
£299 – £799 / mo
ChemComply (2–5× Roots Pro, fewer features)
ChemComply publishes pricing on their own site — one of only two direct competitors with transparent pricing.
Bronze £299/mo, Silver £799/mo, Gold £399/mo + per-CPSR. Acquired by Registrar Corp December 2024.
10 of 11
Enterprise vendors requiring "contact sales"
Of 11 enterprise cosmetic regulatory SaaS vendors audited, only 1 (UL WERCSmart) publishes a full price list.
Source
13-vendor transparency audit, April 2026
Full audit in brainstorming/seo/competitor-verified-facts-april7.md
0
Competitors who publish their NOAEL counts
Not a single cosmetic regulatory SaaS vendor publishes how many NOAEL study records are in their database.
Source
13-vendor audit of public marketing materials
They cannot afford to. The moment the real numbers are public, the pricing comparison destroys their valuation.
0
Competitors who publish measured dermal absorption counts
Zero cosmetic regulatory SaaS vendors disclose how many substances they have measured DA data for.
Source
13-vendor audit of public marketing materials
We are the only one that publishes this number, updated live from our database.
10,000
ChemComply ingredient profiles
The only direct competitor that publishes their ingredient count. We have 3.1× more.
Verbatim quote: "access to a database of over 10,000 toxicological ingredients"
73
HuskinDB public measured DA substances
The largest public academic database of human skin absorption data.
Source
HuskinDB public database
We cross-reference HuskinDB with 4 other sources to reach 230 substances with measured DA — 3.2× more.
Why this page exists
The cosmetic regulatory SaaS category runs on marketing words. "Leading." "Comprehensive." "Trusted." Of the 13 vendors we audited in April 2026, only 1 publishes a full price list. Not a single one publishes how many NOAEL studies are in their database.
They cannot afford to. Their business model depends on opacity — the moment the real numbers become public, the comparison destroys their pricing power. They are structurally unable to be transparent.
We are not. We can afford transparency. In fact, transparency is the only durable moat we have against vendors with more funding, larger sales teams, and longer histories.
Every word on rootsbybenda.com is a fact. This page is the proof.
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30,553 ingredients. 38,411 NOAEL studies. 57,580 confidence-scored MoS calculations.
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