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VP/HEXADECENE COPOLYMER

Not on the EU Annex III list

VP/Hexadecene Copolymer is a polymer of Hexadecene and N-Vinyl Pyrrolidone monomers.

VP/HEXADECENE COPOLYMER is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Binding, Film Forming, Hair Fixing, Viscosity Controlling, Dispersing Non-Surfactant, with CAS number 32440-50-9/63231-81-2 and EC number -/-. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 2 product labels, reaching position 5 on Leche solar 50+.

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
32440-50-9/63231-81-2
EC NUMBER
-/-
COSING FUNCTIONS
Binding, Film Forming, Hair Fixing, Viscosity Controlling, Dispersing Non-Surfactant

Sample products containing VP/HEXADECENE COPOLYMER

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
Leche solar 50+ #5
Le Chouchou Lip Softening Balm Guava Fresca #12

Query VP/HEXADECENE COPOLYMER in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "VP/HEXADECENE COPOLYMER"]
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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