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SODIUM HYDROXIDE

Not on the EU Annex III list

SODIUM HYDROXIDE is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Buffering, Denaturant, with CAS number 1310-73-2 and EC number 215-185-5. CosIng records a restriction against it (III/15a), so check the corresponding Annex entry before formulating. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 50 product labels, reaching position 5 on savon.

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
1310-73-2
EC NUMBER
215-185-5
COSING FUNCTIONS
Buffering, Denaturant
COSING RESTRICTION
III/15a

Sample products containing SODIUM HYDROXIDE

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

PRODUCT LABEL POSITION
Aqua Thermal - Baume Éveil Regard #11
Lait Solaire Enfant FPS 50 #19
Shampooing soin aux huiles d'Olive Karité Argan #30
Intense Force Lotion Capillaire fortifiante anti chute #14
Shampooing antipelliculaire + après-shampooing 2 in 1 anti-chute #27
Shampooing antipelliculaire Instant Dry Scalp Care #24
Axe SG #12
The body shop crème exfoliante corps pêche de vigne #21

Query SODIUM HYDROXIDE in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

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

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