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ALCOHOL

Not on the EU Annex III list

Alcohol is undenatured ethyl alcohol that conforms to the formula:

ALCOHOL is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Antifoaming, Antimicrobial, Astringent, Fragrance, Solvent, Viscosity Controlling, with CAS number 64-17-5 and EC number 200-578-6. CosIng also records it as alcoholum (Ph. Eur.), ethanolum (Ph. Eur.) and Ethanol (chemical name). In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 6 product labels, leading the declaration on Fresh Deo Zerstäuber.

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
64-17-5
EC NUMBER
200-578-6
COSING FUNCTIONS
Antifoaming, Antimicrobial, Astringent, Fragrance, Solvent, Viscosity Controlling
OTHER NAMES (COSING)
alcoholum (Ph. Eur.)
ethanolum (Ph. Eur.)
Ethanol (chemical name)

Sample products containing ALCOHOL

Label positions from the free INCIDB sample. A lower position means the ingredient is declared earlier, i.e. present in a higher proportion.

PRODUCT LABEL POSITION
Intense Force Lotion Capillaire fortifiante anti chute #13
Zahncreme Classic #15
Dusche & Ölperlen #23
Fresh Deo Zerstäuber #1
Leche solar 50+ #3
Liquid Talc #4

Query ALCOHOL in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "ALCOHOL"]
print(target[['ingredient_id', 'functions', 'cas_number', 'is_common_allergen']])

The complete snapshot covers 18,583 products. Coverage of each enrichment column is published, both per distinct name and weighted by label occurrence — see the coverage table.

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