Canonical INCI monograph
BIOTIN
Not on the EU Annex III list
Biotin is the organic compound that conforms to the formula
BIOTIN is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Hair Conditioning, Skin Conditioning - Miscellaneous, with CAS number 58-85-5 and EC number 200-399-3. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 2 product labels, reaching position 18 on Anti-Dandruff Shampoo.
CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
58-85-5
EC NUMBER
200-399-3
COSING FUNCTIONS
Hair Conditioning, Skin Conditioning - Miscellaneous
Sample products containing BIOTIN
Label positions from the free INCIDB sample. A lower position means the ingredient is declared earlier, i.e. present in a higher proportion.
Query BIOTIN in the full snapshot
import pyarrow.parquet as pq
ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "BIOTIN"]
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.