TEREPHTHALYLIDENE DICAMPHOR SULFONIC ACID (ecamsule)

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 information Classified under the CLPEU regulation that classifies chemicals by their hazards (EC No 1272/2008). Regulation: serious eye damage, category 1 (Eye Dam. 1). This classification describes the pure substance; in a finished product it is far more diluted.

• Environment

  No harmonised classification as hazardous to the aquatic environment, and it is not on ECHAEuropean Chemicals Agency.'s Candidate List as an endocrine disruptor for the environment.

• Read on the label

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

UV filter allowed under conditions

Maximum concentration

10%(as acid)

Entry

Annex VI, No 7

Substance

3,3'-(1,4-Phenylenedimethylene) bis (7,7-dimethyl-2-oxobicyclo-[2.2.1] hept-1-ylmethanesulfonic acid) and its salts / Ecamsule

Glossary names

TEREPHTHALYLIDENE DICAMPHOR SULFONIC ACID

CAS

92761-26-7 / 90457-82-2

EC

410-960-6 / -

Identity

CosIng identifier

38544

CAS (according to CosIng)

90457-82-2, 92761-26-7

EC (according to CosIng)

410-960-6

Declared functions

Light stabilizer, UV absorber, UV filter

Wikidata

Q5332142

ECHA InfoCard

100.101.049

CosIng cites 2 CAS numbers for this name: it covers several substances.

(E-E)-3,3'-(1,4-phenylenedimethylidene)bis(2-oxobornane-10-sulfonic acid)

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

Hazard classes

Serious eye damage, category 1 (Eye Dam. 1)

Hazard statements

H318

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

• UV filter allowed under conditions (Annex VI)

Same entries as in the European Union. Their maximum concentrations are compared in the “Comparison between countries” table; other conditions (product types, warnings) may differ.

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.

Japan

• Allowed under conditions: テレフタリリデンジカンフルスルホン酸 (Terephthalylidene dicamphor sulfonic acid)

  Annex 4-2 (allowed UV filters), entry 13, page 11.

  Conditions, source text, in Japanese

  [sub-list] 2　化粧品の種類により配合の制限がある成分(注1) | 100ｇ中の最大配合量（ｇ） / 粘膜に使用されることがない化粧品のうち洗い流すもの: 10 | 100ｇ中の最大配合量（ｇ） / 粘膜に使用されることがない化粧品のうち洗い流さないもの: 10 | 100ｇ中の最大配合量（ｇ） / 粘膜に使用されることがある化粧品: | (注1)　空欄は、配合してはならないことを示し、○印は、配合の上限がないことを示す。

South Korea

• Restricted: 테레프탈릴리덴디캠퍼설포닉애씨드 및 그 염류 (TEREPHTHALYLIDENE DICAMPHOR SULFONIC ACID)

  별표 2, 자외선 차단성분 (UV filters), entry 27, page 16. Limit: 산으로서 10%.

  Conditions, source text, in Korean

  화학물질명: 테레프탈릴리덴디캠퍼설포닉애씨드 (CAS No. 92761-26-7 / 90457-82-2)

ASEAN (South-East Asia)

• Allowed UV filter: 3,3’-(1,4-Phenylenedimethylene)bis(7,7-dimethyl-2-oxo-bicyclo-[2,2,1]hept-1-yl methanesulfonic acid) and its salts Terephthalylidene CAS No. 92761-26-7 Dicamphor Sulfonic Acid CAS No. 90457-82-2

  Annex VII (allowed UV filters), entry 7, page 284. Limit: 10% (expressed as acid).

Taiwan

• Allowed UV filter: 3,3'-(1,4-Phenylenedimethylene)bis(7, 7-dimethyl-2-oxobicyclo-[2.2.1]hept-1-ylmethanesulfonic acid) and its salts/ Ecamsule (Terephthalylidene dicamphor sulfonic acid)

  特定用途化粧品成分名稱及使用限制表, 防曬劑 (allowed UV filters). Limit: 10% (以acid計).

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