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CERA ALBA

Not on the EU Annex III list

Beeswax. The wax obtained from the honeycomb of the bee. It consists primarily of myricyl palmitate, cerotic acid and esters and some high-carbon paraffins

CERA ALBA is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Skin Conditioning - Emollient, Surfactant - Emulsifying, Film Forming, Perfuming, with CAS number 8012-89-3 and EC number 232-383-7. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 1 product label, reaching position 3 on Labello Blackberry Shine 5.5ml.

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
8012-89-3
EC NUMBER
232-383-7
COSING FUNCTIONS
Skin Conditioning - Emollient, Surfactant - Emulsifying, Film Forming, Perfuming

Sample products containing CERA ALBA

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
Labello Blackberry Shine 5.5ml #3

Query CERA ALBA in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

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