CI 44045 (Victoria Blue B)

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 in hair dyes

CosIng links the name CI 44045 to this entry. The cases of prohibition are explained above, in “In plain words”; the official title is given below.

Entry

Annex II, No 1340

Substance

[4-[[4-Anilino-1-naphthyl][4-(dimethylamino)phenyl]methylene]cyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-ylidene]dimethylammonium chloride (Basic Blue 26; CI 44045) when used as a substance in hair dye products

CAS

2580-56-5

EC

219-943-6

Colorant allowed under conditions

Maximum concentration

Not to be used in products applied on the mucous membranes

Entry

Annex IV, No 69

Substance

[4-[[4-Anilino-1-naphthyl][4-(dimethylamino)phenyl]methylene]cyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-ylidene]dimethylammonium chloride

Glossary names

CI 44045

CAS

2580-56-5

EC

219-943-6

Identity

CosIng identifier

32762

CAS (according to CosIng)

2580-56-5

EC (according to CosIng)

219-943-6

Declared functions

Colorant

Wikidata

Q15632925

ECHAEuropean Chemicals Agency. InfoCard

100.018.131

The CAS number cited by CosIng also covers 1 other INCI name: it designates a family of substances, not this ingredient alone.

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

• Prohibited in hair dyes (Annex II)
• Colorant allowed under conditions (Annex IV)

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.

Australia

• Subject to conditions (threshold, labelling or packaging): BASIC BLUE 26

  Poisons Standard, Schedule 6 (cosmetic entries), page 239.

  Conditions, source text

  (CAS No. 2580-56-5) except when used as a colourant in cosmetics not intended to be in contact with mucous membranes.

Brazil

• Prohibited: Cloreto de [4-[[4-anilino-1-naftil][4-(dimetilamino)fenil]metileno]ciclohexa-2,5-dien-1-ilideno]dimetilamônio (CI 44045), quando usado como substância que entra na composição de corantes capilares

  RDC 529/2021, Anexo (prohibited substances), entry 1340, page 46.

  Conditions, source text, in Portuguese

  N° UE: 1340

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