Canonical INCI monograph
POLYETHYLENE
Not on the EU Annex III list
POLYETHYLENE is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Abrasive, Film Forming, Viscosity Controlling, with CAS number 9002-88-4. CosIng also records it as Homopolymer of ethylene monomers (chemical name). In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 1 product label, reaching position 10 on Dove men care stick clean comfort 50 m.
CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
9002-88-4
COSING FUNCTIONS
Abrasive, Film Forming, Viscosity Controlling
OTHER NAMES (COSING)
Homopolymer of ethylene monomers (chemical name)
Sample products containing POLYETHYLENE
Label positions from the free INCIDB sample. A lower position means the ingredient is declared earlier, i.e. present in a higher proportion.
Query POLYETHYLENE in the full snapshot
import pyarrow.parquet as pq
ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "POLYETHYLENE"]
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.