TEA-UNDECYLENATE

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.

Allowed with restrictions

CosIng cites the name TEA-UNDECYLENATE in this entry, whose regulated name is “Trialkylamines, trialkanolamines and their salts”: the title below says which form or use it covers.

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 62

Substance

Trialkylamines, trialkanolamines and their salts

Preservative allowed under conditions

Maximum concentration

0.2% (as acid)

Entry

Annex V, No 18

Substance

Undec-10-enoic acid and its salts

Glossary names

UNDECYLENIC ACID / POTASSIUM UNDECYLENATE / SODIUM UNDECYLENATE / CALCIUM UNDECYLENATE / MEA-UNDECYLENATE / TEA-UNDECYLENATE

CAS

112-38-9 / 6159-41-7 / 3398-33-2 / 1322-14-1 / 84471-25-0 / 56532-40-2

EC

203-965-8 / - / 222-264-8 / 215-331-8 / 282-908-9 / 260-247-7

Identity

CosIng identifier

38538

CAS (according to CosIng)

84471-25-0

EC (according to CosIng)

282-908-9

Declared functions

Preservative, Surfactant: cleansing

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

• Cited as an example in a rule, no rule of its own (Annex III)
• Preservative allowed under conditions (Annex V)

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

• Restricted: 운데실레닉애씨드및그염류및모 노에탄올아마이드 (TEA-UNDECYLENATE)

  별표 2, 보존제 성분 (preservatives), entry 35, page 9. Limit: 사용 후 씻어내는 제품에 산으로서 0.2%.

  Conditions, source text, in Korean

  비고: 기타 제품에는 사용금지 | 화학물질명: 운데실레닉애씨드 (CAS No. 112-38-9 / 1333-28-4) | 화학물질명: 소듐운데실레네이트 (CAS No. 3398-33-2) | 화학물질명: 포타슘운데실레네이트 (CAS No. 6159-41-7) | 화학물질명: 칼슘운데실레네이트 (CAS No. 1322-14-1) | 화학물질명: TEA-운데실레네이트 (CAS No. 84471-25-0) | 화학물질명: MEA-운데실레네이트 (CAS No. 56532-40-2)

Brazil

• Allowed under conditions: Ácido undecanóico-10-eno (undecilênico), seus sais, ésteres, aminas e sulfosuccinato (UNDECYLENIC ACID/ POTASSIUM UNDECYLENATE/ SODIUM UNDECYLENATE/ CALCIUM UNDECYLENATE/ MEA-UNDECYLENATE/ TEA-UNDECYLENATE)

  RDC 528/2021, Anexo (allowed preservatives), entry 17, page 3. Limit: 0.2% (expresso como ácido).