Blog
Latest articles and insights from Dermalytics

Building a Niacinamide Filter: How to Tag Skincare Products by Active Ingredient
Build a bulletproof filter for skincare products with niacinamide: resolve synonyms, anchor on CAS IDs, and ship accurate ingredient tagging with a pre-launch QA checklist.

What Makes a Moisturizer Non-Comedogenic? A Data-Driven Breakdown
"Non-comedogenic moisturizer" isn't a regulated claim—learn to compute pore-clogging risk from INCI data, comedogenicity scores, and formulation weighting.

Niacinamide in Skincare: How to Detect and Score It Programmatically Across 25,000+ Ingredients
Detecting skincare products with niacinamide fails with simple text searches—aliases and OCR errors trip you up. Build a 5-step detection pipeline that actually works.

Plexaderm Ingredients: Official List and Silicates
See the current Plexaderm Rapid Reduction Serum ingredient list, what the brand says its silicate technology does, and what the label cannot establish.

How to Detect Niacinamide in Skincare Products Programmatically
Build reliable niacinamide product filters with normalized INCI names, synonyms, CAS 98-92-0, and a cosmetic ingredient API instead of fragile text search.

What Makes a Shampoo 'Natural'? A Developer's Guide to Ingredient Classification
Natural ingredient shampoo has no legal definition—so how do you classify it? Get 4 defensible models, a 6-step INCI pipeline, and edge-case fixes that prevent greenwashing.

How to Build a Pore-Clogging Ingredient Checker with a Cosmetic API
Discover how to build a pore clogging ingredient checker with numeric scoring. Get the exact API, architecture, and honest limitations.

Milady's Cosmetic Ingredients Dictionary vs. a Programmatic API: A Modern Alternative
Discover how Milady's ingredient dictionary compares to APIs for beauty tech. Learn which tool scales your product features.