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ETHYLHEXYL PALMITATE

Not on the EU Annex III list Rule-flagged fungal-acne trigger

ETHYLHEXYL PALMITATE is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Skin Conditioning - Emollient, Perfuming, with CAS number 29806-73-3 and EC number 249-862-1. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 5 product labels, reaching position 3 on Lip Balm Coconut. Fulton (1989) grades it 4 on the 0–5 comedogenicity scale; that grade is transcribed as-is and is the only rating source used. INCIDB's rule-derived heuristic flags it as a possible Malassezia (fungal-acne) trigger. That is a rule, not a measurement — treat it as a filter rather than a finding.

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
29806-73-3
EC NUMBER
249-862-1
COSING FUNCTIONS
Skin Conditioning - Emollient, Perfuming
COMEDOGENIC RATING (FULTON 1989)
4 / 5

Sample products containing ETHYLHEXYL PALMITATE

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
Crème réparatrice pieds très secs #4
Lip Balm Coconut #3
Le Chouchou Lip Softening Balm Guava Fresca #21
INGU Tri-peptide Balm Nude Pink #3
Rhode Peptide Lip Tint #23

Query ETHYLHEXYL PALMITATE in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "ETHYLHEXYL PALMITATE"]
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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