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Beeswax, synthetic. The complex reaction product of blended acids and blended alcohols which simulates the composition of natural beeswax. It consists primarily of C18-30-alkyl ester of C16-32 fatty acids, C16-32 fatty acids and C22-34 alkanes

SYNTHETIC BEESWAX is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Binding, Emulsion Stabilising, Viscosity Controlling, with CAS number 71243-51-1 and EC number 275-286-5. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 2 product labels, reaching position 6 on Rhode Peptide Lip Tint.

Sample products containing SYNTHETIC BEESWAX

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

Query SYNTHETIC BEESWAX in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

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