AMMONIA

What official classifications and rules say for each group. A classification describes the hazard of the pure substance, not the risk of a product that contains it, which depends on the dose and the exposure.

Prohibition or serious classificationThe text prohibits the substance for this use, or ranks it among the most serious hazards (known or presumed carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic, identified endocrine disruptor).Worth watchingThe text sets a condition or flags a hazard worth knowing: allergen, suspected effect, condition for children, hazard to the aquatic environment.For informationOfficial information with no condition on a finished product: warning to read, irritation of the pure substance.

• Pregnancy and breastfeeding

  No classification harmonised by the European Union covers reproduction, the unborn child or breastfeeding for this substance. This does not mean it has been judged to have no effect during pregnancy.

• Babies and children

  The Cosmetics Regulation sets no age-related condition for this ingredient.

• Skin, eyes and allergies

  For informationOfficial information with no condition on a finished product: warning to read, irritation of the pure substance.

  For information Classified under the CLPEU regulation that classifies chemicals by their hazards (EC No 1272/2008). Regulation: skin corrosion, category 1B (Skin Corr. 1B). This classification describes the pure substance; in a finished product it is far more diluted.

• Environment

  Worth watchingThe text sets a condition or flags a hazard worth knowing: allergen, suspected effect, condition for children, hazard to the aquatic environment.

  Worth watching Classified under the CLP Regulation: hazardous to the aquatic environment, short term, category 1 (Aquatic Acute 1).

• Read on the label

  For informationOfficial information with no condition on a finished product: warning to read, irritation of the pure substance.

  For information Annex III, entry 4, requires this to be printed on the pack: “Above 2%: Contains ammonia”.

Allowed with restrictions

Maximum concentration

6% (as NH3)

Warning to print

Above 2%: Contains ammonia

Entry

Annex III, No 4

Substance

Ammonia

Glossary names

AMMONIA

CAS

7664-41-7 / 1336-21-6

EC

231-635-3 / 215-647-6

Identity

CosIng identifier

31839

CAS (according to CosIng)

7664-41-7

EC (according to CosIng)

231-635-3

Declared functions

Buffering, Fragrance

Wikidata

Q4087

PubChem

222

ECHAEuropean Chemicals Agency. InfoCard

100.028.760

InChIKey

QGZKDVFQNNGYKY-UHFFFAOYSA-N

ammonia, anhydrous

Neither carcinogenic, mutagenic nor toxic for reproduction under the harmonised classification

Hazard classes

Flammable gas, category 2 (Flam. Gas 2)
Gas under pressure (Press. Gas)
Acute toxicity, category 3 (Acute Tox. 3)
Skin corrosion, category 1B (Skin Corr. 1B)
Hazardous to the aquatic environment, short term, category 1 (Aquatic Acute 1)

Hazard statements

H221 H331 H314 H400

CLP notes

U

• 19 November 2010: Balm, Горный чистотел - Balm of Mount celandine (Chelidonium L.), Estonia (“Serious risk”) alert
  The product poses a chemical risk because it contains 25% ammonia.The product does not comply with the Cosmetics Directive 76/768/EEC.

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

• Allowed with restrictions (Annex III)

Same entries as in the European Union. Their maximum concentrations are compared in the “Comparison between countries” table; other conditions (product types, warnings) may differ.

Switzerland

Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 applies in Switzerland (Article 54 of the Ordinance on Foodstuffs and Utility Articles).

United States, federal rules

None of the integrated sections of the federal code (21 CFR 700.11 to 700.27 and 250.250) targets this name. The FDA does not publish a list of allowed ingredients.

South Korea

• Restricted: 암모니아 (AMMONIA)

  별표 2, 기타 (other substances with limits), entry 53, page 39. Limit: 6%.

3 recorded products list it, according to Open Beauty Facts contributors. Records are dated: the formula may have changed. See the list (in French).