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ETHYLHEXYL STEARATE

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

2-Ethylhexyl stearate

ETHYLHEXYL STEARATE is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional category Skin Conditioning - Emollient, with CAS number 22047-49-0 and EC number 244-754-0. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 2 product labels, leading the declaration on Men Bartöl. 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
22047-49-0
EC NUMBER
244-754-0
COSING FUNCTIONS
Skin Conditioning - Emollient

Sample products containing ETHYLHEXYL STEARATE

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
Body Lotion #7
Men Bartöl #1

Query ETHYLHEXYL STEARATE in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

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