SODIUM SULFIDE

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

  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. Classified under the CLPEU regulation that classifies chemicals by their hazards (EC No 1272/2008). Regulation: skin corrosion, category 1B (Skin Corr. 1B).

• 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 watchingThe text sets a condition or flags a hazard worth knowing: allergen, suspected effect, condition for children, hazard to the aquatic environment. Classified under the CLP Regulation: hazardous to the aquatic environment, short term, category 1 (Aquatic Acute 1).

• Read on the label

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

Allowed with restrictions

CosIng cites the name SODIUM SULFIDE in this entry, whose regulated name is “(a) Alkali sulphides (b) Alkaline earth sulphides”: the title below says which form or use it covers.

Other conditions

pH

Warning to print

Keep out of reach of children Avoid contact with eyes

Entry

Annex III, No 23

Substance

(a) Alkali sulphides (b) Alkaline earth sulphides

Identity

CosIng identifier

38094

CAS (according to CosIng)

1313-82-2

EC (according to CosIng)

215-211-5

Declared functions

Depilatory

Wikidata

Q407510

PubChem

14804

ECHAEuropean Chemicals Agency. InfoCard

100.013.829

InChIKey

GRVFOGOEDUUMBP-UHFFFAOYSA-N

disodium sulfide; sodium sulfide

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

Hazard classes

Acute toxicity, category 3 (Acute Tox. 3)
Acute toxicity, category 4 (Acute Tox. 4)
Skin corrosion, category 1B (Skin Corr. 1B)
Hazardous to the aquatic environment, short term, category 1 (Aquatic Acute 1)

Hazard statements

H311 H302 H314 H400

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

• Cited as an example in a rule, no rule of its own (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.