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LAURIC ACID

No MoCRA Allergen Alert Malassezia (Fungal Acne) Trigger

Standard cosmetic ingredient registered in INCI catalog.

LAURIC ACID is catalogued in INCIDB under the CosIng functional class of Skin-Conditioning Agent, registered under CAS number 143-07-7. Within the free INCIDB sample partition it is mapped to 1 indexed formulation spanning 1 product category (Moisturizer), climbing to concentration rank #18 in Thanks To Nature Shaving Cream Tube 250mL. Its comedogenic rating of 4.0/5.0 sits toward the pore-clogging end of the scale, warranting a patch test for acne-prone skin. It is flagged as a Malassezia (fungal-acne) trigger, relevant when managing fungal-acne or seborrheic concerns.

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
143-07-7
COSING PRIMARY FUNCTION
Skin-Conditioning Agent
COMEDOGENIC RATING
4.0 / 5.0
COMMON SYNONYM
Lauric Acid

Sample Commercial Formulations with LAURIC ACID

Verified concentration ranks from the free INCIDB sample partition. Full data mapping covers 19,645 commercial formulations.

PRODUCT NAME CATEGORY CONCENTRATION RANK
Thanks To Nature Shaving Cream Tube 250mL Moisturizer Rank #18

Query LAURIC ACID via PyArrow Parquet

Filter sub-second high-performance columnar Parquet files across all 19,645 beauty formulations.

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

# Load normalized INCI ingredients dataset
ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()

# Locate exact compound ID and regulatory flags
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "LAURIC ACID"]
print(target[['ingredient_id', 'cas_number', 'is_common_allergen']])
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