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INCI ingredient

Alpha Isomethyl Ionone

Also listed as: Alpha-isomethyl Ionone

Alpha Isomethyl Ionone appears on 23 ingredient lists in our database, most often in sunscreens.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originYesno animal source
  • FragranceYescounts as fragrance
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

If a product lists Alpha Isomethyl Ionone, its fragrance-free answer is No. Nothing else changes.

What it does

Alpha Isomethyl Ionone appears on 23 ingredient lists in our database, most often in sunscreens.

On the label it counts as fragrance, which is why a product that lists it cannot be fragrance-free.

We have not written the plain-language note for this ingredient yet; the facts above come straight from how it is classified.

Functions: skin conditioning, perfuming

Products with Alpha Isomethyl Ionone

in 23 products

Showing 23 of 23 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • skin conditioning
  • perfuming
  • skin conditioning: Maintaining the skin in good condition.
  • perfuming: Used for perfume and aromatic raw materials.

CAS 127-51-5 · EC 204-846-3

EU regulation

Listed in Annex III (ref. 90) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation. III/90

CosIng records a perfuming function for this ingredient.

Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.

Fragrance-free instead

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