Canonical INCI Monograph #40
CETYL ALCOHOL
No MoCRA Allergen Alert
Fungal Acne Safe
Standard cosmetic ingredient registered in INCI catalog.
CETYL ALCOHOL is catalogued in INCIDB under the CosIng functional class of Skin-Conditioning Agent, registered under CAS number 36653-82-4. Within the free INCIDB sample partition it is mapped to 3 indexed formulations spanning 2 product categories (Serum, Skincare), climbing to concentration rank #3 in Milbon No. 4 weekly booster medium hair. Its comedogenic rating of 2.0/5.0 reflects a low pore-clogging profile.
CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
36653-82-4
COSING PRIMARY FUNCTION
Skin-Conditioning Agent
COMEDOGENIC RATING
2.0 / 5.0
COMMON SYNONYM
Cetyl Alcohol
Sample Commercial Formulations with CETYL ALCOHOL
Verified concentration ranks from the free INCIDB sample partition. Full data mapping covers 19,645 commercial formulations.
Query CETYL ALCOHOL 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'] == "CETYL ALCOHOL"]
print(target[['ingredient_id', 'cas_number', 'is_common_allergen']])