PVP

PVP is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Antistatic, Binding, Emulsion Stabilising, Film Forming, Hair Fixing, Viscosity Controlling, with CAS number 9003-39-8. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 2 product labels, reaching position 12 on Oral-B pro-expert. Fulton (1989) grades it 0 on the 0–5 comedogenicity scale; that grade is transcribed as-is and is the only rating source used.

Sample products containing PVP

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

Query PVP in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

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