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INCI ingredient

CI 77492

Also listed as: Iron Oxides, Yellow Iron Oxide, CI 77492 (Iron Oxides), Iron Oxides (Ci 77492), CI 77492 / Iron Oxides, Cl 77492

Yellow iron oxide, a mineral pigment identified by its colour index number.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originYesno animal source
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

What it does

CI 77492 is yellow iron oxide, one of the three iron oxides that give makeup its skin tones. It is made synthetically for consistency and purity and appears in foundations, tinted moisturisers, eyeshadows and tinted sunscreens. CosIng lists it as a colorant.

It is a mineral pigment and affects none of the six checks.

Functions: colorant

Products with CI 77492

in 527 products

Showing 24 of 527 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • colorant
  • colorant: Exclusively or mainly intended to colour the cosmetic product, the body as a whole or certain parts thereof, by absorption or reflection of visible light; (precursors of oxidative hair colorants shall be deemed colorants). All authorised colorants are substances in the positive list of Annex IV to the Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009.

CAS 51274-00-1 / 1345-27-3 / 20344-49-4 / 52357-70-7 · EC 257-098-5 / 215-722-3 / 215-570-8 / 257-670-1

EU regulation

Listed in Annex IV (ref. 136) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation. IV/136 Purity criteria as set out in Commission Directive 95/45/EC (E172)

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

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