C21-28 ALKANE

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 harmonised classification as hazardous to the aquatic environment, and it is not on ECHAEuropean Chemicals Agency.'s Candidate List 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 C21-28 ALKANE to this entry. The cases of prohibition are explained above, in “In plain words”; the official title is given below.

Entry

Annex II, No 779

Substance

Distillates (petroleum), hydrotreated light paraffinic, if they contain > 3 % w/w DMSO extract

CAS

64742-55-8

EC

265-158-7

Identity

CosIng identifier

86540

CAS (according to CosIng)

64742-55-8

EC (according to CosIng)

265-158-7

Declared functions

Skin conditioning: emollient, Skin conditioning

The CAS number cited by CosIng also covers 2 other INCI names: it designates a family of substances, not this ingredient alone.

Distillates (petroleum), hydrotreated light paraffinic; Baseoil — unspecified; [A complex combination of hydrocarbons obtained by treating a petroleum fraction with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst. It consists of hydrocarbons having carbon numbers predominantly in the range of C15 through C30 and produces a finished oil with a viscosity of less than 100 SUS at 100 oF (19cSt at 40 oC). It contains a relatively large proportion of saturated hydrocarbons.]

Carcinogenicity, category 1B (Carc. 1B)

Hazard classes

Carcinogenicity, category 1B (Carc. 1B)

Hazard statements

H350

CLP notes

L

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

• Prohibited above an impurity threshold (Annex II)

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.

China

• Prohibited: 二甲基亚砜提取物含量大于 3%（w/w）的加氢轻石蜡（石油）馏分 (Distillates （petroleum）, hydrotreated light paraffinic （CAS No. 64742-55-8）, if they contain > 3 % （w/w） DMSO extract)

  表1 化妆品禁用原料目录 (prohibited substances, 2021年第74号), entry 531, page 附件2 (.doc) table row 531 ; TID reprint p.21.

Brazil

• Prohibited: Destilados (petróleo), parafínicos leves tratados com hidrogênio, se contiverem > 3 % (m/m) de extrato DMSO

  RDC 529/2021, Anexo (prohibited substances), entry 779, page 27.

  Conditions, source text, in Portuguese

  N° UE: 779