LECITHIN

Lecithins. The complex combination of diglycerides of fatty acids linked to the choline ester of phosphoric acid

LECITHIN is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Antistatic, Skin Conditioning - Emollient, Surfactant - Emulsifying, Skin Conditioning, with CAS number 8002-43-5 / 8030-76-0 (soybean) and EC number 232-307-2 / 310-129-7. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 6 product labels, reaching position 16 on Masque Argile Purifiant Pores.

Sample products containing LECITHIN

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

Query LECITHIN in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

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