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Quaternary ammonium compounds, bis(hydrogenated tallow alkyl)dimethyl, chlorides

QUATERNIUM-18 is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Antistatic, Hair Conditioning, Surfactant - Cleansing, with CAS number 61789-80-8 and EC number 263-090-2. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 1 product label, reaching position 5 on Aussie Balsam Miracle Moist 400ml.

Sample products containing QUATERNIUM-18

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

Query QUATERNIUM-18 in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "QUATERNIUM-18"]
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.