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Canonical INCI monograph

HC BLUE NO. 16

Not on the EU Annex III list

HC BLUE NO. 16 is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional category Hair Dyeing, with CAS number 502453-61-4. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 1 product label, reaching position 9 on Schwarzkopf Brilliance Hair Gloss Black 150mL.

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
502453-61-4
COSING FUNCTIONS
Hair Dyeing

Sample products containing HC BLUE NO. 16

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
Schwarzkopf Brilliance Hair Gloss Black 150mL #9

Query HC BLUE NO. 16 in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "HC BLUE NO. 16"]
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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