I Built a Cosmetic Ingredients Dataset — Here’s What I Found

I’ve been working on structuring cosmetic ingredient data into a JSON dataset. What started as simple organization quickly turned into something more interesting, the data doesn’t just describe ingredients, it starts to describe systems. Instead of isolated entries, each ingredient carries multiple layers: chemical class functional role behavior inside a formulation interactions with other ingredients For example: { "name": "Coconut Oil", "chemical_class": "Triglyceride", "functional_class": "So