LAURETH-4

3,6,9,12-tetraoxatetracosan-1-ol; Dodecan-1-ol, ethoxylated; Alcohols, C12-14, ethoxylated

LAURETH-4 is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Antistatic, Surfactant - Emulsifying, Fragrance, Surfactant - Cleansing, with CAS number 5274-68-0 / 9002-92-0 / 68439-50-9 and EC number 226-097-1 / 500-002-6 / 500-213-3. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 6 product labels, reaching position 5 on Vanilla. Fulton (1989) grades it 5 on the 0–5 comedogenicity scale; that grade is transcribed as-is and is the only rating source used.

Sample products containing LAURETH-4

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

Query LAURETH-4 in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "LAURETH-4"]
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.