Canonical INCI monograph
2-METHYLRESORCINOL
Not on the EU Annex III list
2-METHYLRESORCINOL is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional category Hair Dyeing, with CAS number 608-25-3 and EC number 210-155-8. CosIng records a restriction against it (III/243), so check the corresponding Annex entry before formulating. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 2 product labels, reaching position 22 on Kératine Color 4.6 Châtain Chocolat.
CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
608-25-3
EC NUMBER
210-155-8
COSING FUNCTIONS
Hair Dyeing
COSING RESTRICTION
III/243
Sample products containing 2-METHYLRESORCINOL
Label positions from the free INCIDB sample. A lower position means the ingredient is declared earlier, i.e. present in a higher proportion.
Query 2-METHYLRESORCINOL in the full snapshot
import pyarrow.parquet as pq
ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "2-METHYLRESORCINOL"]
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.