Canonical INCI monograph
MEL
Naturally occurring substances, honey, a saccharic secretion gathered and stored by honey bees
MEL is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Skin Conditioning - Emollient, Humectant, Moisturising, with CAS number 8028-66-8. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 1 product label, reaching position 6 on Cosmetic Product 3264680004063.
CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
8028-66-8
COSING FUNCTIONS
Skin Conditioning - Emollient, Humectant, Moisturising
Sample products containing MEL
Label positions from the free INCIDB sample. A lower position means the ingredient is declared earlier, i.e. present in a higher proportion.
Query MEL in the full snapshot
import pyarrow.parquet as pq
ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "MEL"]
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.