COPPER

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

• 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 CLPEU regulation that classifies chemicals by their hazards (EC No 1272/2008). Regulation: hazardous to the aquatic environment, short term, category 1 (Aquatic Acute 1); hazardous to the aquatic environment, long term, category 1 (Aquatic Chronic 1).

• Read on the label

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

Prohibited in nano form

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

Entry

Annex II, No 1726

Substance

Copper (nano) [INCI] Colloidal Copper (nano) [INCI]

CAS

7440-50-8

EC

231-159-6

Colorant allowed under conditions

This entry covers the same substance as COPPER (same CAS number in the CosIng inventory): its conditions apply.

Entry

Annex IV, No 132

Substance

Copper

Glossary names

CI 77400

CAS

7440-50-8

EC

231-159-6

Identity

CosIng identifier

101886

CAS (according to CosIng)

7440-50-8

EC (according to CosIng)

231-159-6

Declared functions

Antimicrobial, Astringent, Colorant, Hair conditioning, Skin protecting, Skin conditioning: humectant

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

copper [specific surface area > 0,67 mm2/mg]

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

Hazard classes

Hazardous to the aquatic environment, short term, category 1 (Aquatic Acute 1)
Hazardous to the aquatic environment, long term, category 1 (Aquatic Chronic 1)

Hazard statements

H400 H410

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

• Colorant allowed under conditions (Annex IV)

Entry 1726 of Annex II of EU law (Regulation (EU) 2024/858) has no equivalent in British law.

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

• Allowed colorant: 구리 (카퍼, Copper) CI 77400 (Copper)

  색소 고시 별표 1 (allowed colorants), entry 78, page 5.