About the data

Open Beauty Facts

Part of the catalogue — barcodes, names, brands, categories and ingredient lists — comes from Open Beauty Facts, a collaborative, open database of cosmetics. The database is made available under the Open Database License (ODbL); individual contents are licensed under the Database Contents License (DbCL). Product photos from Open Beauty Facts are licensed CC BY-SA.

Last imported: 6 Nov 2026

CosIng — European Commission

Ingredient names (INCI), CAS/EC numbers, functions and the listings in Annexes II–VI come from CosIng, the European Commission database of cosmetic substances and ingredients regulated under Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009. The data is reused under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. We present these as regulatory facts and do not translate them into judgements about an ingredient.

Last imported: 29 Aug 2026

Ingredient descriptions

The most common ingredients have plain-language descriptions in Polish and English. We prepare them with the help of AI tools, based solely on CosIng data — name, functions and regulatory status — without adding properties that source does not confirm. The descriptions are for information only and are not medical advice. All other ingredients are shown with their CosIng data alone.

What is Kosvia’s own

Ingredient scores, Personal Match, explanations and comparisons are computed by Kosvia’s own algorithms from the underlying facts. They are not part of any third-party database.

Prices and shops

The products and their ingredients are real. Prices, shops and price history are examples for now — we generate them to show how price comparison and price alerts work until real drugstores are connected. They are not an offer to sell. If you come across a product with no source shown, it is a made-up example created while developing the app.