P-METHYLAMINOPHENOL

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

  For informationOfficial information with no condition on a finished product: warning to read, irritation of the pure substance.

  For informationOfficial information with no condition on a finished product: warning to read, irritation of the pure substance. Annex III, entry 223, requires this to be printed on the pack: “Hair colourants can cause severe allergic reactions”.

Allowed with restrictions

Product type

Hair dye in oxidative hair dye products

Other conditions

Afther mixing under oxidative conditions the maximum concentration applied to hair must not exceed 0,68% (as sulphate) - Do not use with nitrosating agents - Maximum nitrosamine content: 50 microgram/Kg - Keep in nitrite-free containers

Warning to print

Hair colourants can cause severe allergic reactions

Entry

Annex III, No 223

Substance

4-Methylaminophenol and its salts

Glossary names

P-METHYLAMINOPHENOL

CAS

150-75-4 - 55-55-0 - 1936-57-8

EC

205-768-2 - 200-237-1 - 217-706-1

Identity

CosIng identifier

36625

CAS (according to CosIng)

150-75-4

EC (according to CosIng)

205-768-2

Declared functions

Hair dyeing

Wikidata

Q27124284

ECHAEuropean Chemicals Agency. InfoCard

100.005.245

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)

• 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.

South Korea

• Prohibited: 황산 p-메칠아미노페놀

  별표 1 (prohibited substances), entry 253, page 13.

  Conditions, source text, in Korean

  ※ 유의사항 2: 1) 표시는 [별표 2] 염모제 성분에서 정한 기준에 적합한 경우는 제외한다.

• Restricted: 황산 p-메칠아미노페놀

  별표 2, 염모제 성분 (hair colorants), entry 18, page 19. Limit: 산화염모제에 0.68%.

  Conditions, source text, in Korean

  비고: 기타 제품에는 사용금지

Australia

• Subject to conditions (threshold, labelling or packaging): p-METHYLAMINOPHENOL

  Poisons Standard, Schedule 6 (cosmetic entries), page 268. Thresholds cited: 1% or less.

  Conditions, source text

  except when used in hair dye and eyebrow/eyelash colouring products at a concentration of 1% or less of p-methylaminophenol after mixing for use when the immediate container and primary pack are labelled with the following statements: | (a) KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN; and | (b) WARNING – This product contains ingredients which may cause skin sensitisation to certain individuals. A preliminary test according to the accompanying directions should be made before use; | written in letters not less than 1.5 mm in height.