HEXYL CINNAMAL ((2EZ)-α-n-hexylcinnamaldehyde)

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

  Worth watchingThe text sets a condition or flags a hazard worth knowing: allergen, suspected effect, condition for children, hazard to the aquatic environment.

  Worth watchingThe text sets a condition or flags a hazard worth knowing: allergen, suspected effect, condition for children, hazard to the aquatic environment. Allergen to declare: Annex III, entry 87, requires it to be named in the ingredient list above 0.001% in a leave-on product and 0.01% in a rinse-off product, so that allergic people can avoid it.

• 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.

Allowed with restrictions

Other conditions

The presence of the substance must be indicated in the list of ingredients referred to in Article 19(1)g when its concentration exceeds: - 0.001% in leave-on products - 0.01% in rinse-off products

Entry

Annex III, No 87

Substance

2-Benzylideneoctanal

Glossary names

HEXYL CINNAMAL

CAS

101-86-0

EC

202-983-3

Identity

CosIng identifier

40233

CAS (according to CosIng)

101-86-0

EC (according to CosIng)

202-983-3, 639-566-4

Declared functions

Perfuming

Wikidata

Q60178917

PubChem

7585

ECHAEuropean Chemicals Agency. InfoCard

100.002.713

InChIKey

GUUHFMWKWLOQMM-UHFFFAOYSA-N

• 5 June 2026: Cream, Greece (“Serious risk”) alert
• 27 March 2026: Cosmetics set, Pilgrim, United Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland (“Serious risk”) alert
• 19 December 2025: Eau de toilette, GORDANO PARFUMS, Czechia (“Serious risk”) alert

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

• Allowed with restrictions (Annex III)

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.

2,259 recorded products list it, according to Open Beauty Facts contributors. Records are dated: the formula may have changed. See the list (in French).