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The complex reaction product of blended acids and blended alcohols which simulates the composition of natural spermaceti. It consists primarily of myristyl, cetyl and palmityl esters of myristic and palmitic acids

CETYL ESTERS is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Skin Conditioning - Emollient, Skin Conditioning. CosIng records no CAS number for it, so the column is NULL rather than guessed. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 1 product label, reaching position 5 on Moisture Me Rich Total Results Shampoo. Fulton (1989) grades it 1 on the 0–5 comedogenicity scale; that grade is transcribed as-is and is the only rating source used.

Sample products containing CETYL ESTERS

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

Query CETYL ESTERS in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "CETYL ESTERS"]
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.