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LANOLIN

Not on the EU Annex III list

Lanolin is a refined derivative of the unctuous fat-like sebaceous secretion of sheep. It consists of a highly complex mixture of esters of high molecular weight aliphatic, steroid or triterpenoid alcohols and fatty acids

LANOLIN is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Antistatic, Skin Conditioning - Emollient, Surfactant - Emulsifying, Hair Conditioning, Skin Conditioning, Surfactant - Cleansing, with CAS number 8006-54-0 and EC number 232-348-6. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 2 product labels, reaching position 6 on Strawberry Moisturizing Lip Balm.

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
8006-54-0
EC NUMBER
232-348-6
COSING FUNCTIONS
Antistatic, Skin Conditioning - Emollient, Surfactant - Emulsifying, Hair Conditioning, Skin Conditioning, Surfactant - Cleansing

Sample products containing LANOLIN

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
Ansiktskremer pleiende #9
Strawberry Moisturizing Lip Balm #6

Query LANOLIN in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

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