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LIMONENE

FDA MoCRA Contact Allergen Flagged Fungal Acne Safe

Standard cosmetic ingredient registered in INCI catalog.

Regulatory / Clinical Alert
Mandatory MoCRA contact allergen disclosure when >0.001% in leave-on or >0.01% in rinse-off.

LIMONENE is catalogued in INCIDB under the CosIng functional class of Skin-Conditioning Agent, registered under CAS number 138-86-3. Within the free INCIDB sample partition it is mapped to 2 indexed formulations spanning 1 product category (Skincare), climbing to concentration rank #16 in Shaving soap for sensitive skin. It carries a comedogenic rating of 0.0/5.0, indicating no expected pore-clogging activity. It is flagged as an FDA MoCRA contact allergen, so patch testing is advised for sensitive users.

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
138-86-3
COSING PRIMARY FUNCTION
Skin-Conditioning Agent
COMEDOGENIC RATING
0.0 / 5.0
COMMON SYNONYM
Limonene

Sample Commercial Formulations with LIMONENE

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

PRODUCT NAME CATEGORY CONCENTRATION RANK
Shaving soap for sensitive skin Skincare Rank #16
Dove Nourishing Body Care Intensiva Piel Extra Seca Skincare Rank #21

Query LIMONENE 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'] == "LIMONENE"]
print(target[['ingredient_id', 'cas_number', 'is_common_allergen']])
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