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Cocamide MEA is a mixture of ethanolamides of Coconut Acid. It conforms generally to the formula:

COCAMIDE MEA is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Surfactant - Foam Boosting, Viscosity Controlling, with CAS number 68140-00-1 and EC number 268-770-2. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 16 product labels, reaching position 4 on Shampooing antipelliculaire + après-shampooing 2 in 1 anti-chute.

Sample products containing COCAMIDE MEA

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

Query COCAMIDE MEA in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "COCAMIDE MEA"]
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.