SQUALENE

Squalene is an unsaturated branched chain isoprenoid hydrocarbon found in fish and plant oils. It conforms to the formula:

SQUALENE is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Skin Conditioning - Emollient, Hair Conditioning, Solvent, with CAS number 111-02-4/7683-64-9 and EC number 203-826-1/-. CosIng records a restriction against it (Please consider whether entry 419 of Annex II to the Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009 is applicable. According to entry 419, category 1 material and Category 2 material as defined in Articles 4 and 5 respectively of Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002, and ingredients derived therefrom are prohibited in cosmetics products. Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 has been repealed and replaced by Regulation No. 1069/2009. For Category 1 and 2 materials in Regulation No. 1069/2009, please see Article 8 and 9, respectively.), so check the corresponding Annex entry before formulating. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 1 product label, reaching position 15 on crème hydratante pour toute la famille.

Sample products containing SQUALENE

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

Query SQUALENE in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

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