BEESWAX

Beeswax is the purified wax from the honeycomb of the bee, Apis mellifera , free from all other waxes.

BEESWAX is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Binding, Emulsion Stabilising, Fragrance, Skin Conditioning, Viscosity Controlling, with CAS number 8006-40-4,8012-89-3 and EC number ,232-383-7 (I). In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 1 product label, reaching position 3 on Strawberry Moisturizing Lip Balm.

Sample products containing 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 BEESWAX in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

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