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AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE

Not on the EU Annex III list

AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Buffering, Denaturant, with CAS number 1336-21-6 and EC number 215-647-6. CosIng records a restriction against it (III/4), so check the corresponding Annex entry before formulating. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 2 product labels, reaching position 4 on Kératine Color 4.6 Châtain Chocolat.

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
1336-21-6
EC NUMBER
215-647-6
COSING FUNCTIONS
Buffering, Denaturant
COSING RESTRICTION
III/4

Sample products containing AMMONIUM 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
Kératine Color 4.6 Châtain Chocolat #4
Cucumber Fresh shampoo #6

Query AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

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