The Cosmetic Ingredient Guide (formerly INCIGuide) is created by a team of enthusiasts who have compiled a comprehensive glossary and search engine for personal care ingredients, providing access to continuously updated information. This tool has helped many customers check the suitability of unexplored ingredients for their skin, body, and hair, or choose the most suitable product.
The demand for safer products in the personal care industry is rapidly increasing. Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the effects of different products on their health, society, and the environment. They check labels and choose personal care formulations with harmless ingredients, and the Cosmetic Ingredient Guide is becoming increasingly popular among responsible customers.
This new wave of consciousness encourages producers to design products that cater to the key demands of sustainability: environmental compatibility, biodegradability, tolerance in application, and a high proportion of natural, renewable raw materials. As more products with novel ingredients enter the market, our team monitors and updates facts, safety data, and effects, providing as much information as possible about the particular formula.
We're using the CosIng database, published on the European Commission's website, and the Global Substance Registration System's Unique Ingredient Identifiers (UNII) database, published on the FDA's website, as a standard for ingredient identification. However, the Cosmetic Ingredient Guide team can describe any personal care ingredient listed in any publicly available database, including the Australian Inventory of Chemical Substances (AICS), Chinese Cosmetic Ingredient Regulatory Databases, and others.We're currently moving from the domain name inci.guide to a new one, ci.guide, which is shorter, more memorable, and better represents the name and purpose of the project.
The Cosmetic Ingredient Guide team includes highly professional specialists in different fields:
- Arthur Ghochikyan, M.D. - Managing editor. Graduated from Yerevan State Medical University in 2003.
- Lilith Ghochikyan, Pharm.D. - Editor. Graduated from Yerevan State University in 2008.
- Pr. Tariel Ghochikyan - Chemist; Consultant. Graduated from Yerevan State University in 1977.
- Nelli Ajrapetova, Consultant with 20 years of experience in the beauty industry. Founder of Beautypest Inc. in Hungary, and Beaty Ambassade in the USA.
- Mane Chobanyan - Editor. Graduated from Yerevan State University in 2018.
- Ruben Harutunyan - Technical specialist. Armenia State University of Economics in 2008.