BENZOIC ACID

Benzoic Acid is an aromatic acid that conforms to the formula:

BENZOIC ACID is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Fragrance, Preservative, Ph Adjusters, with CAS number 65-85-0 and EC number 200-618-2. CosIng records a restriction against it (V/1), so check the corresponding Annex entry before formulating. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 7 product labels, reaching position 6 on Lingettes intimes.

Sample products containing BENZOIC ACID

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

Query BENZOIC ACID in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

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