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SODIUM STEARATE

Not on the EU Annex III list Rule-flagged fungal-acne trigger

SODIUM STEARATE is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Cleansing, Surfactant - Emulsifying, Surfactant - Cleansing, Viscosity Controlling, with CAS number 822-16-2 and EC number 212-490-5. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 3 product labels, reaching position 3 on Stick déo Musk. INCIDB's rule-derived heuristic flags it as a possible Malassezia (fungal-acne) trigger. That is a rule, not a measurement — treat it as a filter rather than a finding.

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
822-16-2
EC NUMBER
212-490-5
COSING FUNCTIONS
Cleansing, Surfactant - Emulsifying, Surfactant - Cleansing, Viscosity Controlling

Sample products containing SODIUM STEARATE

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
Stick déo Musk #3
Every man jack deo #3
Cherry Fizz Premium Deodorant Stick #4

Query SODIUM STEARATE in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

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