Canonical INCI monograph
LACTOSE
Not on the EU Annex III list
LACTOSE is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Humectant, Skin Conditioning, with CAS number 63-42-3 and EC number 200-559-2. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 2 product labels, reaching position 15 on Body Wash Shower Gel Naturals Milk & Honey 1L.
CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
63-42-3
EC NUMBER
200-559-2
COSING FUNCTIONS
Humectant, Skin Conditioning
Sample products containing LACTOSE
Label positions from the free INCIDB sample. A lower position means the ingredient is declared earlier, i.e. present in a higher proportion.
Query LACTOSE in the full snapshot
import pyarrow.parquet as pq
ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "LACTOSE"]
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.