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Paraffin is a solid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum characterized by relatively large crystals.

PARAFFIN is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Skin Conditioning, Viscosity Controlling, Perfuming, with CAS number 8002-74-2; 64742-51-4 and EC number 232-315-6; 265-154-5. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 3 product labels, reaching position 4 on Lip Balm Coconut.

Sample products containing PARAFFIN

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

Query PARAFFIN in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

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