STEARAMINE

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 irritation, category 2 (Skin Irrit. 2); serious eye damage, category 1 (Eye Dam. 1).

• 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); hazardous to the aquatic environment, long term, category 1 (Aquatic Chronic 1).

• Read on the label

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

Allowed with restrictions

CosIng cites the name STEARAMINE in this entry, whose regulated name is “Monoalkylamines, monoalkanolamines and their salts”: the title below says which form or use it covers.

Maximum concentration

Maximum secondary amine content: 0.5%

Other conditions

- Do not use with nitrosating systems - Minimum purity: 99% - Maximum secondary amine content: 0.5% (applies to raw materials) - Maximum nitrosamine content: 50 microgram/kg - Keep in nitrite-free containers

Entry

Annex III, No 61

Substance

Monoalkylamines, monoalkanolamines and their salts

Identity

CosIng identifier

38267

CAS (according to CosIng)

124-30-1

EC (according to CosIng)

204-695-3

Declared functions

Antistatic

Wikidata

Q2013790

PubChem

15793

ECHAEuropean Chemicals Agency. InfoCard

100.004.270

InChIKey

REYJJPSVUYRZGE-UHFFFAOYSA-N

octadecylamine

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

Hazard classes

Aspiration hazard, category 1 (Asp. Tox. 1)
Specific target organ toxicity, repeated exposure, category 2 (STOT RE 2)
Skin irritation, category 2 (Skin Irrit. 2)
Serious eye damage, category 1 (Eye Dam. 1)
Hazardous to the aquatic environment, short term, category 1 (Aquatic Acute 1)
Hazardous to the aquatic environment, long term, category 1 (Aquatic Chronic 1)

Hazard statements

H304 H373 (gastrointestinal tract, liver, immune system) H315 H318 H400 H410

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.