About Cult Archive
A practical skincare encyclopedia, not another hype feed.
Cult Archive helps you compare skincare products by formula signals, use case, skin needs, climate, and public product information. The goal is simple: make product research less chaotic, while staying honest about what the data can and cannot prove.
How products are sourced
Cult Archive focuses on products with signs of durable public interest: repeated mentions across retailers, editorial roundups, community discussion, brand pages, and formula databases. That does not mean every product is perfect or universally loved. It means the product has enough public signal to be worth organizing and checking.
Product pages may combine brand or retailer information, ingredient references, public review summaries, pricing/offer data, and internal classification rules. When a source is uncertain, incomplete, or not formulation-specific, Cult Archive should prefer restraint over a confident-sounding claim.
Filters are research shortcuts
Category, skin type, concern, climate, and pregnancy-related filters are meant to help narrow a large catalog. They are not a diagnosis, prescription, or guarantee that a product will work for you.
Life-stage means public suitability context
Life-stage labels describe broad public positioning, such as adult or mature-skin signals. They do not determine whether a product is medically appropriate for a specific person.
Pregnancy flags are conservative screens
Pregnancy-related messages come from rule-based ingredient checks. A product with no flagged ingredients is not the same as medical clearance. Always confirm with your clinician if pregnant, breastfeeding, or trying to conceive.
Unknown is a real answer
If the catalog cannot responsibly verify a formula, price, source, or sensitive claim, the better answer is Unknown, blank, or withheld. That is a feature, not a bug.
What pros and cons mean
Pros and cons summarize recurring product signals, such as texture, use case, ingredient strengths, possible drawbacks, or review themes. They are not universal truths. Your skin, region, formulation, and routine can change the outcome.
Public catalog API
Cult Archive publishes a read-only JSON catalog for search engines, agent crawlers, and lightweight product research tools. Product pages remain the canonical human-readable URLs; each product page also advertises its matching JSON endpoint with an alternateapplication/jsonlink.
- /api/v1/products — paginated public product index.
/api/v1/products/:brandSlug/:productSlug— public product JSON for a canonical product page.- /api/v1/taxonomy — allowed categories, product types, skin types, concerns, climates, and related catalog values.
- /api/v1/schema — the public product JSON field contract.
API responses are cacheable and rate-limited. Summary price data may appear in the public JSON, but Product JSON-LD offers are omitted unless Cult Archive can prove current visible retailer-offer provenance with valid currency and price.
Corrections and updates
Skincare products change: formulas are reformulated, packaging is renamed, retailer pages disappear, and regional ingredient lists can differ. Useful correction requests should include the product name, the field that looks wrong, the suggested correction, and an exact-match source URL such as the brand page, packaging image, retailer page, or ingredient database entry.
Cult Archive does not currently publish a dedicated public correction form on the site. Until that exists, corrections should be evaluated against source quality and updated cautiously rather than accepted on vibes alone.
Important medical note
Cult Archive is for general educational and informational use only. It is not medical advice and is not a substitute for a dermatologist, physician, pharmacist, or product label. Patch-test when appropriate and ask a qualified professional about medical conditions, pregnancy, breastfeeding, allergies, or ingredient restrictions.
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