Ammoniumhydroxide
Also listed as: Ammonium Hydroxide
Ammoniumhydroxide appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database.
What it triggers
- Vegan originNot sureorigin not on file
- FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
- ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
- SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
- SiliconeNonot a silicone
- AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol
What it does
Ammoniumhydroxide appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database.
It does not belong to any of the six groups we check, so it never changes a verdict.
We have not written the plain-language note for this ingredient yet; the facts above come straight from how it is classified.
Functions: buffering, denaturant
Products with Ammoniumhydroxide
in 2 products
Showing 2 of 2 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.
In the EU ingredient database
Functions listed by CosIng
- buffering
- denaturant
- buffering: Stabilising the pH of an aqueous medium in a narrow range even if an acid or base is added. Altering and/or maintaining a cosmetic product's pH at the desired level.
- denaturant: Rendering cosmetics unpalatable. Mostly added to cosmetics containing ethyl alcohol to make it unsuitable for ingestion.
CAS 1336-21-6 · EC 215-647-6
EU regulation
Listed in Annex III (ref. 4) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, maximum concentration 6% (as NH3). III/4 Above 2%: Contains ammonia
Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.
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