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CHLORHEXIDINE DIHYDROCHLORIDE

Not on the EU Annex III list

Chlorhexidine Dihydrochloride is a salt of Chlorhexidine and hydrochloric acid. It conforms generally to the formula:

CHLORHEXIDINE DIHYDROCHLORIDE is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Antimicrobial, Oral Care, Preservative, with CAS number 3697-42-5 and EC number 223-026-6. CosIng records a restriction against it (V/42), so check the corresponding Annex entry before formulating. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 1 product label, reaching position 13 on Moisture Me Rich Total Results Shampoo.

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER

3697-42-5

EC NUMBER

223-026-6

COSING FUNCTIONS

Antimicrobial, Oral Care, Preservative

COSING RESTRICTION

V/42

Sample products containing CHLORHEXIDINE DIHYDROCHLORIDE

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
Moisture Me Rich Total Results Shampoo	#13

Query CHLORHEXIDINE DIHYDROCHLORIDE in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "CHLORHEXIDINE DIHYDROCHLORIDE"]
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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