Canonical INCI monograph
ZINC OXIDE
Not on the EU Annex III list
ZINC OXIDE is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional category Uv Filter, with CAS number 1314-13-2 and EC number 215-222-5. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 1 product label, reaching position 2 on Alga Maris Crème solaire 50+. Fulton (1989) grades it 1 on the 0–5 comedogenicity scale; that grade is transcribed as-is and is the only rating source used.
CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
1314-13-2
EC NUMBER
215-222-5
COSING FUNCTIONS
Uv Filter
COMEDOGENIC RATING (FULTON 1989)
1 / 5
Sample products containing ZINC OXIDE
Label positions from the free INCIDB sample. A lower position means the ingredient is declared earlier, i.e. present in a higher proportion.
Query ZINC OXIDE in the full snapshot
import pyarrow.parquet as pq
ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "ZINC OXIDE"]
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.