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Isohexadecane is a branched chain aliphatic hydrocarbon with 16 carbons.

ISOHEXADECANE is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Skin Conditioning - Emollient, Solvent, with CAS number 4390-04-9, 60908-77-2, 93685-80-4 and EC number 224-506-8, -, 297-628-2. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 4 product labels, reaching position 3 on Intense Force Lotion Capillaire fortifiante anti chute.

Sample products containing ISOHEXADECANE

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

Query ISOHEXADECANE in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

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