PETROLATUM (petroleum jelly)

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 unless refining is demonstrated

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

Entry

Annex II, No 904

Substance

Petrolatum, except if the full refining history is known and it can be shown that the substance from which it is produced is not a carcinogen

CAS

8009-03-8

EC

232-373-2

Identity

CosIng identifier

79504

CAS (according to CosIng)

8009-03-8

EC (according to CosIng)

232-373-2

Declared functions

Antistatic, Skin conditioning: emollient

Wikidata

Q457239

ECHAEuropean Chemicals Agency. InfoCard

100.029.428

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 unless refining is demonstrated (Annex II)

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.

China

• Prohibited: 矿脂, 除非清楚全部精炼过程并且能够证明所获得的物质不是致癌 物 (Petrolatum （CAS No. 8009-03-8）, except if the full refining history is known and it can be shown that the substance from which it is produced is not a carcinogen)

  表1 化妆品禁用原料目录 (prohibited substances, 2021年第74号), entry 1018, page 附件2 (.doc) table row 1018 ; TID reprint p.39.

Brazil

• Prohibited: Petrolato, exceto se conhecerem todos os antecedentes de refinação e se se puder provar que a substância a partir da qual foi produzida não é cancerígena até aqui

  RDC 529/2021, Anexo (prohibited substances), entry 904, page 31.

  Conditions, source text, in Portuguese

  N° UE: 904

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