TRIMETHYLBENZENEPROPANOL

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

  Worth watchingThe text sets a condition or flags a hazard worth knowing: allergen, suspected effect, condition for children, hazard to the aquatic environment.

  Worth watching Allergen to declare: Annex III, entry 345, requires it to be named in the ingredient list above 0.001% in a leave-on product and 0.01% in a rinse-off product, so that allergic people can avoid it.

• Environment

  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: hazardous to the aquatic environment, long term, category 3 (Aquatic Chronic 3).

• Read on the label

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

Allowed with restrictions

Other conditions

The presence of the substance shall be indicated in the list of ingredients referred to in Article 19(1), point (g), when its concentration exceeds: — 0,001 % in leave-on products — 0,01 % in rinse-off products.

Entry

Annex III, No 345

Substance

3-(2,2-Dimethyl- 3-hydroxypropyl) toluene

Glossary names

Trimethylbenzenepropanol

CAS

103694-68-4

EC

403-140-4

Identity

CosIng identifier

87494

CAS (according to CosIng)

103694-68-4

EC (according to CosIng)

403-140-4

Declared functions

Fragrance, Perfuming

Wikidata

Q27268778

PubChem

175948

ECHA InfoCard

100.100.489

InChIKey

FYMOBFDUZIDKMI-UHFFFAOYSA-N

3-(2,2-dimethyl-3-hydroxypropyl)toluene;(alt.): 2,2-dimethyl-3-(3-methylphenyl)propanol

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

Hazard classes

Hazardous to the aquatic environment, long term, category 3 (Aquatic Chronic 3)

Hazard statements

H412

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

• No specific rule in the Cosmetics Regulation

Entry 345 of Annex III of EU law (Regulation (EU) 2023/1545) has no equivalent in British law.

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.

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