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Please give to our 2025 Fundraiser

Your donations fund the day-to-day operations of our non-profit association:

  • keeping our database open & available to all,
    • technical infrastructure (website/mobile app) & a small permanent team

  • remain independent of the food industry,

  • engage a community of committed citizens,

  • support the advancement of public health research.

Each donation counts! We appreciate your support in bringing further food transparency in the world.

Contribute to Open Beauty Facts

Todo o que precisa é actitude de escaneadora! :-)

Can we make the cosmetics industry more open and transparent? Yes we scan! Podemos! In barely a week, already 30 Open Beauty Facts contributors and growing !
Yes we scan! Podemos!

Calquera pode contribuír

Be part of our collaborative, free and open database of cosmetic products from around the world!

Open Beauty Facts is a non-profit project made entirely by volunteers, we do need you.

Engadir produtos

Use our Android, iPhone or Windows Phone app to easily scan the barcode of products from your home or local stores and upload pictures of their label.

Non ten smartphone? Sen problema: tamén pode utilizar a cámara para engadir produtos directamente no sitio web.

No sitio web pode completar a información de produtos que vostede ou outras engadiron.

Difunda

Do you like Open Beauty Facts? Dígallo a outras persoas!

You can present the project to your family and friends, show them how to install the app and contribute, write a blog post, share Open Beauty Facts on social media...

E presentalo ao vivo! We have presented Open Beauty Facts to very different audiences in very different settings, and we always get a very enthusiastic response when we show what can be done when the data for products is open. Temos moito material de promoción (tarxetas etc.) que vostede pode adaptar ou presentar tal cal.

Traduza

You can help to translate the site and mobile app in your language, and to translate presentations, announcements etc.

Podemos traballar xuntas para dar soporte e engadir etiquetas locais, descodificar códigos de envase locais para poder facer seguimento de produtos etc.

Start or join a local contributors community: add local products, recruit friends, present the project in local meetups and conferences etc.

Precisamos axuda de expertas

Developing Open Beauty Facts also requires specialized knowledge and expertise in many different areas:

  • Xestión de proxectos

    Temos moitas ideas e probablemente vostede aínda máis, pero é un desafío establecer prioridades, establecer unha ruta, e xestionar proxectos cando cada persoa é voluntaria e normalmente con tempo dispoñible limitado.

  • Deseño

    We need help to build a better user experience on the Open Beauty Facts web site and mobile app, to improve their design, to create impactful presentation materials etc.

  • Desenvolvemento

    We have a lot of development work to do: on the Open Beauty Facts backend (Perl and MongoDB), API (JSON), web site (HTML5, JS, Foundation), iOS and Android apps (currently Apache Cordova / Phonegap, with a native Android version almost ready and much work to do on iOS), to build new cool reuses etc. Our code is on GitHub (Android, iOS, Cordova.)

  • Construíndo Comunidade

    Precisamos construír comunidades locais en todos os países e ao mesmo tempo unilas todas globalmente.

    It is very difficult to bootstrap a local community in a country without living there, so your help to find the first very motivated participants is essential. É vostede unha delas?

  • Comunicación

    Non sabemos moi ben que escribir aquí, podería axudarnos?

    More seriously, there are lot of cool things that users, contributors and reusers do with Open Beauty Facts, it would be great to get more people to know about it. In particular, we need help for public and media relations.

  • Proxectos especiais

    There are lots of interesting and original applications of cosmetic open data that we could work on with government cosmetic agencies, cosmetic producers, researchers, universities, schools, NGOs etc. Quizáis vostede ten algunha idea? Si é asi, por favor axúdenos a sacalas adiante.

Falemos!

Moitas ideas, entusiasmo e enerxía son comúns as nosas persoas contribuíntes, únase!

Aquí ten algúns lugares onde pode atopar a outras persoas contribuíntes, falar con elas e traballar con elas:

  • Slack

    Slack é o mellor xeito de relacionarse e colaborar con outras contribuíntes, desenvolvedoras e reutilizadoras. It's a discussion forum you can access from your browser or your phone. Mudou completamente o xeito en que traballamos xuntas. Please try it, click on the button below to get invited to our Slack.

  • Grupos de Facebook

    We have Facebook groups in many languages for Open Beauty Facts contributors. Joining them is a good way to get news about the project and to share announcements to a wider audience.

  • Wiki

    We also have a wiki that we use to collaboratively document Open Beauty Facts and its sub-projects. We also use the wiki to manage translations and to work on the taxonomies / hierarchies of categories, labels etc.

There are many more ways to contribute to Open Beauty Facts, please join us on Slack (in the #openbeautyfacts channel) and let's start the discussion!