BUTANE

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

  No official classification for sensitisation, irritation or eye damage, and no obligation to label it as an allergen.

• Environment

  No official classification as hazardous to the aquatic environment and no assessment as an endocrine disruptor for the environment.

• Read on the label

  The Cosmetics Regulation requires no warning to be printed for this ingredient.

Prohibited above an impurity threshold

CosIng links the name BUTANE to this entry. The cases of prohibition are explained above, in “In plain words”; the official title is given below.

Entry

Annex II, No 465

Substance

Butane, if it contains = >0,1 % w/w Butadiene

CAS

106-97-8

EC

203-448-7

Identity

CosIng identifier

31692

CAS (according to CosIng)

106-97-8

EC (according to CosIng)

203-448-7

Declared functions

Propellant

Wikidata

Q134192

PubChem

7843

ECHAEuropean Chemicals Agency. InfoCard

100.003.136

InChIKey

IJDNQMDRQITEOD-UHFFFAOYSA-N

butane; [1] and isobutane [2]

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

Hazard classes

Flammable gas, category 1 (Flam. Gas 1)
Gas under pressure (Press. Gas)

Hazard statements

H220

CLP notes

C U

butane (containing ≥ 0,1 % butadiene (203-450-8)); [1] isobutane (containing ≥ 0,1 % butadiene (203-450-8)) [2]

Carcinogenicity, category 1A (Carc. 1A); Germ cell mutagenicity, category 1B (Muta. 1B)

Hazard classes

Flammable gas, category 1 (Flam. Gas 1)
Gas under pressure (Press. Gas)
Carcinogenicity, category 1A (Carc. 1A)
Germ cell mutagenicity, category 1B (Muta. 1B)

Hazard statements

H220 H350 H340

CLP notes

C S U

The CMRCarcinogenic, mutagenic (damages DNA) or toxic for reproduction. classification covers only a specific form or grade of the substance (particle size or impurity content stated in the entry's title); another CLP entry covers its other forms.

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

• Prohibited above an impurity threshold (Annex II)

Same entries as in the European Union. Conditions (concentrations, warnings) may differ: they are not compared here.

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.

China

• Prohibited: 丁二烯含量大于或等于 0.1%（w/w）的丁烷 (Butane （CAS No. 106-97-8）, if it contains≥0.1%（w/w） butadiene)

  表1 化妆品禁用原料目录 (prohibited substances, 2021年第74号), entry 368, page 附件2 (.doc) table row 368 ; TID reprint p.16.

Brazil

• Prohibited: Butano, se contiver ≥ 0,1 % (m/m) de butadieno

  RDC 529/2021, Anexo (prohibited substances), entry 465, page 17;18.

  Conditions, source text, in Portuguese

  N° UE: 465

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