HOME / SOLVENTS, VISCOSITY & STRUCTURE AGENTS / LACTIC ACID

LACTIC ACID is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Buffering, Humectant, Skin Conditioning, with CAS number 50-21-5 and EC number 200-018-0. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 20 product labels, leading the declaration on Balea Augen Make-up Entferner ölfrei, 100 ml.

Sample products containing LACTIC ACID

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

Query LACTIC ACID in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

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