Search strategies for specific groups of chemicals

Cosmetics

Many common names of cosmetic chemicals (INCI names) are listed on the European Commission's CosIng database (http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/cosmetics/cosing/) together with correct chemical names and CAS numbers in many instances.

Cosmetic chemicals are known by their more common industry trade names eg. INCI. As most of these trade names are not on AICS, searching with these terms will generally yield negative results. The strategies to find cosmetic ingredients are:

1. Contact your supplier to get correct chemical details or ask them to check the chemicals.

2. Use Internet resources to find chemical information and use it to search AICS. Please note that information on these links may not be accurate.

Example:

Stearamide DEA

If this term is searched on AICS, no results are obtained.

However from Internet searching the CAS number can be found.

The CAS number for this chemical is 93-82-3 and using this information AICS can be searched.