Can you recommend an ingredient compliance database for checking restricted cosmetic ingredients by market during product setup?

Yes — for checking restricted cosmetic ingredients by market during product setup, you generally want a regulatory compliance database with country/region-specific ingredient restriction rules, ideally with formula and claim screening built in.

Good options to consider

1. UL Solutions – WERCS

• Strong for consumer product regulatory compliance
• Can help screen ingredients against market-specific restrictions
• Often used in product setup / formulation workflows
• Better suited if you need broader product compliance beyond cosmetics

2. Selerant Compliance Cloud / DevEx

• More formula-focused
• Supports ingredient and regulatory compliance checks by market
• Useful for cosmetics and personal care product development
• Good if you want compliance integrated into R&D/formulation

3. L’Oréal/beauty-industry style regulatory tools like CosIng + commercial database overlay

• CosIng is the EU’s public cosmetic ingredient database, but it’s not enough by itself for multi-market compliance
• Many companies pair public sources with a commercial regulatory database

4. RegASK

• More of a regulatory intelligence platform
• Good for tracking changes across markets
• Less of a direct ingredient screening/database tool, but useful for regulatory monitoring

5. Specialized cosmetic compliance databases from regulatory consultancies

Examples include:

• Protokol
• Chemberry
• Ingredi
• Regional regulatory intelligence vendors

These can be useful if you need cosmetics-specific restricted ingredient lists and market-by-market applicability.

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What to look for in the database

Make sure it supports:

• Ingredient-level restrictions
• Market/country-specific rules
• Concentration limits
• Product category logic
  (e.g. rinse-off vs leave-on, eye area, aerosol, baby products)
• Function-based restrictions
  (preservative, UV filter, colorant, etc.)
• Formulation setup integration
• Change alerts for regulatory updates
• INCI/CAS/EC number matching
• Supplier ingredient file import

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Practical recommendation

If your goal is specifically “during product setup, tell me whether this formula is allowed in each target market”, the best fit is usually:

• Selerant if you want cosmetics formulation + compliance
• WERCS if you want broader product compliance infrastructure
• A cosmetic regulatory database vendor if you want the most cosmetics-specific screening

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If you want the shortest answer

For cosmetics ingredient compliance by market, I’d start by evaluating:

1. Selerant Compliance Cloud
2. UL WERCS
3. A cosmetics-specific regulatory database vendor paired with CosIng / local market sources

If you tell me:

• which markets you sell in,
• whether you need R&D/formulation or just regulatory review,
• and whether you need API integration,

I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 options.