Definition
US FDA substance register · UNII 2H2G880K12 · registered name 3,4-DIAMINOBENZOIC ACID · single chemical substance
Cosmetic roles
Safety & regulatory references
- Banned
- Argentina · ASEAN · Brazil · China · European Union · South Korea · Taiwan · United Kingdom
Source: ASEAN Cosmetic Directive · EU Cosmetics Regulation · MFDS (Korea) cosmetic regulatory information · Taiwan FDA cosmetic ingredients · UK cosmetics regulations (OPSS)
EU Cosmetics Regulation, Annex II (prohibited substances), entry 1229
Restriction II/1229
Source: EU CosIng ingredient list
More data — names, identifiers, properties, test records, literature
Names & identifiers
- CAS No.chemical registry number
- 619-05-6
- EC No.EU chemical inventory number
- 210-577-2
- DTXSIDUS EPA chemical ID
- DTXSID00210920
- DTXCIDUS EPA compound ID
- DTXCID30133411
- IUPAC
- 3,4-Diaminobenzoic acid
- Molecular formula
- C7H8N2O2
- Molecular weight
- 152.153 g/mol
Measured properties
- Appearance
- Grey or brown powder, [Alfa Aesar MSDS]
Values measured on the substance itself, not a specification for a commercial raw material.
Source: PubChem
What products actually use it for
What the 1 products reported to the US EPA with this ingredient use it for. Products outside cosmetics are included, so the top few rows are its main uses.
- Dye1
Source: US EPA CompTox dashboard
Irritation and sensitisation studies
1 skin studies and 0 eye studies are on record.
The study conclusions largely agree (100%). These tests are on the raw material itself; irritation at the amount in a finished product is a different question.
See all 1 studies
- SkinSens1
Skin Sensitization · QSAR Predicted
Source: US EPA CompTox dashboard
Linked databases 16
- ASEAN Cosmetic Directive
- Australian Industrial Chemicals Inventory (AICIS)
- ChEMBL
- EU CosIng ingredient list 2
- EU Cosmetics Regulation
- EU prohibited substances (Annex II)
- MFDS (Korea) cosmetic regulatory information 2 3
- PubChem
- Taiwan FDA cosmetic ingredients
- UK cosmetics regulations (OPSS)
- UniChem cross-reference IDs
- US EPA CompTox dashboard 2
- US EPA DSSTox chemical database
- US FDA substance registration (GSRS)
- US FDA Unique Ingredient Identifier (UNII)
- Wikidata