DISPERSE BLACK 9
Official label name (INCIInternational name of cosmetic ingredients: the one printed on the pack. name, EU glossary of cosmetic ingredient names), No 9472
- Allowed with restrictions (Annex III)
DISPERSE BLACK 9: Allowed with restrictions, with limits depending on the product type (Annex III, entry 263), under Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009. Annexes of the Regulation consulted on 21 October 2026.
Who it concerns
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.
In plain words
What it is used for
Functions declared by manufacturers:
Hair dyeing: colours hair.
Functions declared in the CosIngThe European Commission's database of cosmetic ingredients. inventory. CosIng, inventory of cosmetic ingredients (INCI names, CAS, EC, functions), retrieved 21 October 2026.
Definitions of functions (decision repealed on 8 May 2020, cited for information). Decision 2006/257/EC, inventory of cosmetic ingredients (definitions of functions), retrieved 22 October 2026.
What the rules say
Allowed, with restrictions: Annex III sets a maximum concentration and the product types allowed. Ingredient lists do not give quantities, so the concentration cannot be checked on the label.
CosIng, Annex III of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 (restricted substances), retrieved 21 October 2026, source updated 13 October 2026.
The text of the annexes
Allowed with restrictions
- Product type
- Hair dye substance in non-oxidative hair dye products
- Maximum concentration
- 0.3% (of the mixture in the ratio 1:1 of 2.2' -[4-(4-aminopheny-lazo)pheny-limino]diethanol and lignosulfate)
- Entry
- Annex III, No 263
- Substance
- Ethanol, 2,2′-[[4-[(4-aminophenyl) azo]phenyl]imino]bis-
- Glossary names
- Disperse Black 9
- CAS
- 20721-50-0
- EC
- 243-987-5
Dates in the act (3)
- Application from 11 July 2013
etic products (1), and in particular Article 31(1) thereof, Whereas: (1) Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 replacing Council Directive 76/768/EEC of 27 July 1976 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to cosmetic products (2) will apply from 11 July 2013.
- Entry into force on 31 July 2013
- Application from 1 September 2013
It shall apply from 1 September 2013.
Excerpts from the English text published in the Official Journal. A date may concern only some substances of the act: the excerpt says so.
Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Annex III, entry 263. CosIng, Annex III of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 (restricted substances), retrieved 21 October 2026, source updated 13 October 2026.
Entry from Regulation (EU) n° 658/2013, adopted on 10 July 2013.
What has changed, and what will change
Dates of the texts that cover this ingredient. A text date may cover several substances: the details of each entry are below.
Annex III, entry 263: introduced or replaced by Regulation (EU) n° 658/2013
Annex III, entry 263: applies from this date
Identity
- CosIng identifier
- 75939
- CAS (according to CosIng)
- 20721-50-0
- EC (according to CosIng)
- 243-987-5
- Declared functions
- Hair dyeing
- Wikidata
- Q27268248
- ECHA InfoCard
- 100.039.973
- InChIKey
- NZKTVPCPQIEVQT-VHEBQXMUSA-N
CosIng inventory. CosIng, inventory of cosmetic ingredients (INCI names, CAS, EC, functions), retrieved 21 October 2026.
Wikidata, items with a CosIng identifier (P3073), retrieved 22 October 2026.
Wikidata, PubChem and ECHA links are published only when verified: same CosIng identifier, a single item, matching CAS number.
Elsewhere in the world
Information on other jurisdictions, with no effect on sale in France. What is covered, and what is not yet.
Comparison between countries
Most restrictive status in each country, and the maximum concentration cited. The details and the source of each rule follow.
| Country | Rule | Maximum concentration cited |
|---|---|---|
| European Union | Allowed with restrictions | 0.3% |
| United Kingdom | Allowed with restrictions | 0.3% |
| Switzerland | EU Regulation applies | 0.3% |
| United States (federal) | No federal rule recorded | not cited |
| Japan | No entry in the lists recorded | not cited |
| South Korea | Allowed colorant | 0.3% |
| China | Not on the prohibited lists recorded (lists of allowed substances are not recorded) | not cited |
| Australia | No entry in the lists recorded | not cited |
| Brazil | No entry in the lists recorded | not cited |
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.
Annexes II to VI in force. United Kingdom, Annexes II to VI of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 as retained and amended, retrieved 21 October 2026.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Northern Ireland applies EU law.
Switzerland
Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 applies in Switzerland (Article 54 of the Ordinance on Foodstuffs and Utility Articles).
Switzerland, FDHA Ordinance on Cosmetic Products (OCos, SR 817.023.31), consolidated version, retrieved 22 October 2026.
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.
United States, 21 CFR part 700 and section 250.250 (FDA rules on cosmetic ingredients), eCFR, retrieved 21 October 2026.
The eCFR is not an official legal edition of the Code of Federal Regulations.
South Korea
- Allowed colorant: 분산흑색 9 호 (Disperse Black 9) (Disperse Black 9)
색소 고시 별표 1 (allowed colorants), entry 118, page 7. Limit: 0.3%.
Conditions, source text, in Korean
염모용 화장품에만 사용 | ◎ 사용한도 0.3% | 비고: 타르색소
South Korea, MFDS Standards for Cosmetic Colorants (화장품의 색소 종류 및 기준), Notification 2023-61, Annex 1, retrieved 22 October 2026.
Source: 식품의약품안전처 (MFDS), 화장품의 색소 종류 및 기준, via law.go.kr; table formatted by the publisher of this site.
Glossary: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1175. Page updated on 21 October 2026.